Tim Hollo

Tim Hollo is an environmentalist, musician and political strategist. He is the Executive Director of the Green Institute, founder of Green Music Australia, and recently ran as the Greens candidate for Canberra. Formerly, he was Communications Director for Christine Milne, has worked for and sat on the board of Greenpeace, and has spent 20 years campaigning for climate action. Tim has been published widely, including in The Griffith Review, Crikey, ABC, Fairfax and the Alternative Law Journal.

Ending the neoliberal university

Ending the neoliberal university

By: Tim Hollo

This is an edited version of an address to an NTEU election forum in April 2019, when the author was Greens candidate for the seat of Canberra. Universities are a critical site not just of learning, but also of social change, of progress, of democracy. Universities...

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Past Issues

PRECARITY

Precarity’s paradoxical force unites us in a condition of fragmentation and isolation.

CRISIS

The change and ruptures in our personal and collective lives, still lingers.

THE UNIVERSITY

Excessive managerialism, neoliberalisation and casualisation are some of the main challenges that are threatening the viability and the values of the university today. Lina, Amber and Scott kick off ‘The University’ issue, introducing the core themes and questions.

BODIES

This issue of Demos explores the ways in which the body moves through the world – how it labors and loves, how it treads the duplicitous thresholds of legality, how it is radicalised, and eternalised, how it is corralled and transgressed.

STUDENT ACTIVISM

Today’s student activists ask themselves: “how did we get here?”, “where are we going?” and “how are we going to get there?”. Issue 7 of Demos Journal concerns itself with these questions representing the history, practice and form of student activism.

FUTURES POSSIBLE

Introducing Demos issue 6: the editors take a look into what it means to imagine the future.

RESISTANCE

Introducing Demos issue 5: the editors take a look into what it means to resist and affect change.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Introducing Demos issue 4: the editors take a look into what boundaries mean to Australian identity today.

VOICES FROM THE GRASSROOTS

As a sneak peak into our latest edition, the Demos Editors bring together voices on grassroots organising and activism at ANU, in the Canberra community, and from beyond.

ARTICULATING SILENCE

The Demos editorial team bring you a preview of some of the exciting pieces to come with an exploration into the many meanings of silence.

CREATING DEMOS

To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itself.