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How to spread the #ChangeTheDate message

18 January, 2019 - January 26 marks more than 200 years of ongoing dispossession and oppression for First Nations peoples – but many people are against changing...

The good, the bad and the ugly of climate change in 2018

18 January, 2019 - As the planet relentlessly warms, action to address it is also heating up.  But while other parties are quickly adopting the cause, the ...

How democratic is the Australian system of government, really?

14 December, 2018 - Australia is often touted as having one of the most robust models of democracy in the world. But how does it compare to that of other progre...

Lessons and learnings from the Victorian state election

14 December, 2018 - With some devastating losses around the state, the Victorian election didn’t play out quite as hoped. But from the disappointments come some...

Looking back on a year of extremes

14 December, 2018 - 2018 is winding up – and what a year it’s been. But as we get into the new year, we’re going to need your help more than ever. By Richard...

Reflections on a global year

14 December, 2018 - The past few months have been a flurry of activity for the Global Issues Working Group (GIG) – with some exciting work on the horizon, too. ...

Why higher education in Australia should be free

14 December, 2018 - Under the Greens‘ transformative new plan, university and TAFE graduates can ditch the debt and have twenty thousand dollars extra in their ...

20 Questions with Kate Da Costa

23 November, 2018 - This month we meet former Greens NSW State Secretary Kate Da Costa, who shares everything from her greatest hopes for the future to her favo...

Greens members should be union members too

23 November, 2018 - Unions and organised labour are the single most powerful and largest global movement of people to ever exist. Here‘s why you should join one...

Ripping off the band-aid

23 November, 2018 - Incoming Co-Convenor Willisa Hogarth shares her hopes and ambitions for her term alongside fellow Co-Convenor Catherine Garner – one in whic...

The politics of peace and patience

23 November, 2018 - Dr Frank Habineza is the President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, and in September 2018 was elected as one of two Greens MPs in th...

The time has come for a jobs guarantee

23 November, 2018 - Ten years after the GFC, Australia is still experiencing economic stagnation, minimal wage growth and high un- and underemployment. In this ...