A Better Kind Of Power
Recent fights over the NDIS, gambling reform, and a minimum gas export tax reveal a lot about power in Australian politics. When big corporations want protection from regulation or fairer taxes, they have money, lobbyists and access. When everyday people ask for stronger public services, safer communities or a fair share from hugely profitable gas companies, they are too often told there is no alternative.
By Senator Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens
The Fight For the NDIS Was Never Just About One Bill
Last week’s passing of Labor’s NDIS cuts is a blow to disabled people across Australia. There are lessons here about what grassroots community action can achieve, even when we don’t have the numbers to win the final vote. Jordon reflections on the massive campaign.
By Senator Jordon Steele-John
Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women And Children
On the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, the Blak Greens reflected on the ongoing human rights issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and children in Australia.
By Dr Hannah McGlade, Blak Greens Member
Green Room Reflections: Building An Organised Movement
The far right is growing, corporate power is deeply entrenched, and billionaire-funded networks are getting better at shaping the political conversation. In the latest Green Room, Gary Stevenson and Senator Peter Whish-Wilson talked inequality, media power and what progressives need to build to fight back – and why the Greens have a crucial role to play.
By Your Greens Team
How Will You Be Remembered?
The Australian Greens have a Gifts in Wills program called ‘EverGreen’. Evergreen trees keep their leaves for more than one season, providing shade and habitat for people and animals. Leaving a gift to the Greens in your will can continue your lifetime’s values of support for the environment, for fairness and for justice. Toni chats to Nick Ward, Greens EverGreen member, about his decision to leave a bequest to the Greens.
By Toni Payne, Bequests Officer, Australian Greens
Passionate Politics: A History Of The Greens In WA
Stewart Jackson reviews Passionate Politics, which takes us behind the scenes and back through 30+ years of the Greens in WA. The book covers the merger of four progressive groups campaigning against nuclear energy, for the environment, for the south-west forests, and on social justice issues to form the Greens (WA), which saw our first Greens Senator in Australia – pursuing radical political change in a state preoccupied by digging things up and chopping them down!