What is the Greens’ role in a world increasingly defined by crisis? How can we turn despair into action while billionaires and corporations capture our democracy and the media?

The planet is warming, genocide against Palestine continues and the gap between the wealthy few and everyone else has never been more stark. 

But across the world a movement for change is building — and the future will be Green, or not at all.

Join us at this year’s annual Reboot Conference: Ideas in Action. We’ll host a diverse and inspiring range of panellists with case studies about how the Greens are already making a difference, and encourage you to join in thought-provoking discussions about what comes next.

Are we up for the challenge? Are you?

Reboot will be held over two days on the weekend of 6-7 July 2024. You can attend in-person at Glebe Town Hall or online via Zoom.

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AGENDA

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Saturday 6 July

9:30am	Arrival and registration
9:45am	Welcome to Country with Yvonne Weldon Introduction and opening: Hall Greenland
Opening  session  10.00- 11.00am	Is the status quo dead in the water?  Change is possible and worth fighting for.   Senator Mehreen Faruqi Facilitator: Hall Greenland
11:00 - 11:30 am	Morning Tea
Session 2  11.30am - 1.00pm	Free Palestine Rawan Arraf, Rand Darwish, Paul Keating  Facilitator: Lee Rhiannon
1: 00-2:00pm	LUNCH
Session 3 -  2.00 - 3.30 pm	Housing, planning and green urbanism Sue Higginson MLC, Judy Mundey and Jono Sriranganathan  Facilitator: Sylvie Ellsmore
3:30 - 5:00pm	Film showing: The Last Sky Director Nick Hanna in conversation with Therese Doyle
5:00 -5:30pm	Talk, drinks, food
5.30-7.30pm	Conference comedy special with the inimitable Mandy Nolan

Sunday 7 July

	Stream A	Stream B
Session 5  9.30 -11:00	What path to climate and social justice?  Grassroots democracy, balance of power, coalitions with Labor Shane Rattenbury, Chris Holley, Lee Rhiannon   Facilitator: Grant O’Leary	The future in the Pacific and Australia’s role   Clinton Fernandes, Ronny Kareni, Florrie Kealau Alalo Facilitator: Therese Doyle
Session 6  11.00 – 12.30	Stop the war on women Abigail Boyd, Yumi Lee, Sarah Williams Facilitator: Therese Doyle	Reimagine unionism for the future Vince Caughley, Dani Barley,  Adriana Boisen Facilitator: John Thomasson
12.30 – 1.30	LUNCH
Session 7  1.30 - 3.00	Addressing the climate crisis   Cate Faerhmann, Zack Schofield, Mark Diesendorf Facilitator: Hall Greenland	Asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: where do human rights fit?   Ian Rintoul, Alison Battisson, David Shoebridge Facilitator: Marion Gevers
Session 8  3.15 – 4.45	AUKUS – how to prevent a war with China   David Shoebridge, Clinton Fernandes, Brian Toohey Facilitator: Sylvia Hale	Celebrating gender diversity: Inclusion and safety in health and sport Caroline Layt, Dr Belinda Poon, Jeremy Moineau, Francisco Lopez Facilitator: Amanda Cohn
4:50 - 5:00	Wrap up/debrief

Our Speakers

Abigail Boyd MLC

Abigail had two decades of experience as a lawyer before being elected at the 2019 state election. She has campaigned tirelessly on climate, economic inequality and gendered violence and abuse.

Adriana Boisen

Adriana is a CPSU member who helped organise a rank-and-rile reform group within their union. They ran in the union’s recent national election as the National President candidate. The campaign focussed on reinvigorating democracy within CPSU and called for a plebiscite on the question of Labor party affiliation.

Alison Battisson

Alison Battisson is the founder and Director Principal of Human Rights for All, an Australian charitable human rights law firm providing pro-bono representation to refugees, stateless people and Indigenous people in Australia’s immigration detention prisons. 

Doctor Belinda Poon

Dr Belinda is a GP working in Rosehill in Western Sydney and a provider of gender affirming hormonal therapy. She is a member of the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health and the Gender Affirming Network Sydney.

Brian Toohey

Brian Toohey has been  a journalist since 1973 covering defence, the economy, the intelligence services and politics from a sceptical perspective.

Cate Faerhmann MLC

Cate has a long history as an activist in many environmental and social justice organisations, including as Chair of Sea Shepherd Australia, Executive Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, founding director of GetUp! and she is on the board of the Environmental Defenders Office NSW.

Caroline Layt

Caroline is a journalist and athlete. She is a proud trans woman who has played representative rugby league for NSW and won 6 medals at World Masters athletics. She has written for The Women’s Game (Inside Sport) and worked as a fitness instructor.

Chris Holley

Chris has been a member and frequent office holder of Port Jackson Greens for twenty years. He has been a campaign coordinator and preference negotiator for local, state and federal election campaigns and has previously worked for two NSW MPs.

Clinton Fernandes

Clinton Fernandes is in the Future Operations Research Group at UNSW Canberra, which analyses the operational environment that military forces will face in the next decade. He is the author of Subimperial Power: Australia in the International Arena.

Dani Barley

Dani brings well over 20 years of movement experience in Australia and North America to her role as the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) President. Invigorated by participating in the year-long RAFFWU campaign at Apple, she aims to bring the ability to wage that same fight to some of Australia’s lowest-paid workers.

Senator David Shoebridge

David is a Greens Senator for NSW and former barrister. He had a long history is local council and state politics before being elected to the Senate in 2022. David is currently campaigning with Senator Jordan Steele-John to expose the wasteful expenditure and catastrophic war-mongering of the AUKUS deal. 

Florrie Kealau Alalo

Florrie is from remote Atoll Islands of Ontong Java, which face high climate change risks.  She was a candidate for the Green Party of the Solomon Islands at the recent national elections.

Francisco Lopez

Francisco is the National Health Lead for ACON’s Pride Inclusion Programs. He has over ten years experience working in the healthcare sector across clinical operations, service redesign and health system reform. 

Ian Rintoul

Ian is a long-time political activist, and a founding member of the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC). RAC was formed in the late 1990s, to fight the anti-refugee policies of the Howard Coalition government, and more recently those of the Coalition and Labor parties in government. RAC is now fighting for a review of the thousands of asylum seekers rejected under the misnamed 'fast-track system' and against Labor's proposed "deportation bill." 

Jeremy Moineau

Jeremy is a social justice advocate and LGBTQIA+ educator. She has used her platform as a fashion model and actress to fight for equity for the trans community, and has recently joined the Greens as a Parliamentary staffer.

Jono Sriranganathan 

Jono has actively shaped the Queensland Greens' policy platform on urban planning and housing, and was the first Greens councillor on Brisbane City Council, representing the Gabba Ward from 2016 to 2023, before running as the 2024 Greens candidate for mayor of Brissie.

Judy Mundey

A feminist, socialist, peace and social justice activist, environmentalist and retired barrister. She was an important figure in the establishment of the women's liberation movement in Australia and in 1979 became the first female national president of the Communist Party of Australia, holding the position until 1982.

Lee Rhiannon

Lee is a former longstanding Greens Senator for NSW, she is a leftwing political activist on social justice, industrial and environmental campaigns for nearly six decades.

Mark Diesendorf

Dr Mark Diesendorf is Honorary Associate Professor in Environment & Society at UNSW Sydney and lead author of "The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change".

Senator Mehreen Faruqi

Mehreen is the Greens Deputy Leader and Senator for NSW. She is a civil and environmental engineer and life-long activist for social and environmental justice. In 2013, she joined NSW State Parliament, becoming the first Muslim woman to sit in an Australian parliament. In 2018, Mehreen became Australia’s first Muslim senator. She has been a passionate advocate against racism and misogyny.

Nick Hannah

Nick is one of NSW foremost criminal defence lawyers with a long history of appearing in the state's most high profile and complex cases. Nick directed The Last Sky, a hard-hitting documentary filmed in Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

Paul Keating

Paul is the MUA Sydney Branch Secretary & International Dockers Council Asia Pacific Zone Coordinator. He previously served as the MUA Sydney Deputy Branch Secretary for 10 years, and beforehand worked as an active Rank and File member of the MUA as a wharfie on the Sydney Waterfront.

Rand Darwish

Rand is a Palestinian advocate and community organiser. Born in the ’48 Palestinian territories, she is passionate about intersectional solidarities. Rand has worked with the student union at the University of Sydney and the National Union of Students on Palestine solidarity. She recently worked on a documentary highlighting the Palestinian experience with apartheid and settler colonialism with the Dare to Struggle film unit.

Rawan Arraf

Rawan is the Principal lawyer and Executive Director for thee Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ). She has ten years of legal experience in refugee protection, administrative law and international human rights law.

Ronny Kareni

Ronny is a West Papuan diplomat and lecturer of Tok Pisin language at Australian National University. He holds a Master of Diplomacy and a Bachelor of Arts (Humanities). He uses music to build community confidence and relationships, and as a form of case work and cultural development projects in the Pacific and Australia.

Sarah Williams

Sarah is the founder of the What You Were Wearing movement and an anti-domestic violence activist and organiser. 

Shane Rattenbury

Shane is the Attorney-General of the ACT and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party.

Sue Higginson MLC

Sue is a NSW Greens MP, environmental lawyer, farmer and grandmother. She is the former CEO and Principal Solicitor at the Environmental Defenders Office.

Vince Caughley

Vince is the NSW Division Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union.

Yumi Lee

Yumi is the CEO of the Older Women’s Network and has been a peace and women’s rights activist for many years. She is honoured to be raising awareness of the issues of concern for older women. She is driven by a strong sense of social justice, and the belief that our society will be enriched when we have the full participation of those who are currently marginalised.

Zack Schofield

Zack is a law student and Rising Tide community organiser and media spokesperson. He was involved in the successful 2023 blockade of Australia’s largest coal port in Newcastle.