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3 weeks ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Jo Chandler |George Megalogenis |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss
It’s 4.30am when two grey-haired women pick their way by torchlight across the logging coupe in New South Wales’s Bulga State Forest. They plant a pair of green plastic chairs in the churned earth under a monster tree-harvester. They get some help bolting onto the machine – chunky D-locks looped around their necks, the weight nestled on rolls of towelling. Then it’s just the two of them.
Dawn dials up the birdsong and illuminates a wash of mist rolling through the trees they have come to save.
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3 weeks ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Madison Griffiths |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Richard Denniss
In a Quiet cul-de-sac in Wodonga, on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, Serena Brejcha retrieves a two-metre-long banner from its cardboard sheath. Quietly, she unfurls it. It is barely January, and her house is still decorated with many a Christmas ornament. Given the banner’s scale, she and her husband clasp a hold of each end so I am able to read its provocation.
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4 weeks ago | 
themonthly.com.au | George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss
Beyond the deals that will be needed to form Australia’s next government, the outcome of this federal election will be determined by a wildcard influence from outside our politics – the Trump presidency There was a time when the leaders of Australia’s Labor and Liberal parties refused to entertain the question of minority government, and no one seemed to mind. It was just about the final taboo in our politics, and it relied on the assumption that Australians crave stability above all else.
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4 weeks ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Richard Denniss |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths
In 2022, Anthony Albanese swept into majority government despite a swing away from Labor of 0.8 per cent compared to Bill Shorten’s primary vote in 2019. Luckily for Albanese, Scott Morrison had driven away 5.7 per cent of Liberal voters. And as any political strategist will tell you, a messy win is better than a clean loss.
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1 month ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss |John Stephenson
As climate protests gather force around the country, what is driving a wide range of people from despair to direct action? In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of medicine and the law when it comes to female bodies
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1 month ago | 
australiainstitute.org.au | Angus Blackman |Ebony Bennett |Richard Denniss
Polls point to a power-sharing government being the most likely outcome at the upcoming federal election, but how do they actually work? Independent Senator David Pocock and Tony Windsor AM, former independent parliamentarian who held the balance of power during the Gillard minority government, join Amy Remeikis to discuss how they negotiate with the major parties, the growth of the independent and minor party vote, and why there’s so much fearmongering about minority governments in Australia.
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2 months ago | 
australiainstitute.org.au | Hayden Starr |Richard Denniss |Emma Shortis
“Demanding better from our leaders is often met with threats like ‘well if you push too hard then you’ll get nothing’.”“Ignore this. It shows you’re winning.”Watch:In his opening remarks, Richard shows how far we have come since the Australia Institute’s first Climate Integrity Summit 3 years ago. Wrapping the Summit up, Richard explains the power that each of us hold, and can use to hold our leaders to account. Watch:
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
australiainstitute.org.au | Angus Blackman |Richard Denniss |Emma Shortis
Richard Denniss joins the show to discuss Trump’s inauguration and the upcoming federal election. On this episode of Follow the Money, Australia Institute Executive Director Richard Denniss joins Ebony Bennett to examine the year ahead in federal politics and how the Trump presidency could impact Australia. This discussion was recorded on Tuesday 21 January 2025 and things may have changed since recording. Order What’s the Big Idea?
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
australiainstitute.org.au | Greg Jericho |David Richardson |Richard Denniss |Polly Hemming
Victoria’s budget and economy are actually doing well – both the state’s public net worth and overall economy recovered solidly from the pandemic. At the moment numerous media outlets are attempting to make the case that the Victorian government’s finances are in a parlous state.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thenewdaily.com.au | Richard Denniss
Eighteen years ago today Anthony Albanese issued a press release about the urgent need to not just act on climate change, but prepare for the humanitarian crisis of climate refugees fleeing low-lying Pacific island nations. Specifically his press release, having criticised the Howard Government for being slow to act, called for “the establishment of an international coalition led by Australia to accept climate change refugees from Pacific countries.
