People of voting age cry out for representation in councils and parliaments and for regional through national leadership by government.

So they get together, do social activities and raise money – both of which pursuits are hugely aided by taxation exemption, concession, deduction and direct public (ex taxation revenues, largely overseas ‘growth-fund’ exports investment profits and immigrant, student or affluent tourist spending) subsidies.. a tartly named Activity Trap (the title of a short paper or magazine article by a business “man-age-meant” guy, a pom called I think George Robertson from my social psychology & social work studies days (the 1970s) i cldnt successfully search unsurprisingly enough because it was critical operant mature adult thinking discourse or peroration of the sort every pavlovian ‘Hit or Give’ ghoul in the billionaires’ e-comms de-skill Cabal hates and simply censors out of his or her or indeed – classically in grammatically off though it may be – their, increasingly ‘putrefying’ product in really and truly an apocalyptic runaround for innocent kids, working people and vain neurocognitively impaired old men..

Greens SA v-mail – 14 August, 2024

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Sarah Hanson-Young Campaign Kickoff – with Adam Bandt

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Chateau Apollo, 74 Frome St, Adelaide

Join us as we kick off the Greens SA campaign to re-elect Sarah Hanson-Young to the Senate and win Sturt!

Greens Leader Adam Bandt will be heading to town, straight from his press club address.

So grab a friend, get your tickets, enjoy a snack from the platters, and hear from Sarah and Adam about the plan for re-electing Sarah!MORE INFO

What’s On in August?

The Greens | Branch | Action Group | Community

TODAY: Volunteer Welcome Night

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Hear from Greens organisers and volunteers about how a strong people powered campaign can win elections and how you can be a part of it!

Learn about the different ways you can get involved. From letterboxing to phone banking, doorknocking and market stalls. There is something for everyone.

Vegan dinner provided. REGISTER

Stirling Knock-off drinks with Robert Simms MLC

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Miss Perez Kitchen & Bar, 2 Druid Avenue, Stirling

Join Greens MLC, Robert Simms for a drink and casual conversation on the big issues impacting our day-to-day lives: cost of living and the housing crisis, rising inequality, the climate crisis, the ramping crisis, and more! Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar. MORE INFO

Food waste lecture by Dr Stephen Lapidge CEO of End Food Waste Australia

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide

If food waste was a country it would be ranked the third highest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the USA. EFWA is committed to creating a more productive, sustainable, and resilient Australian food system by ending food waste and food insecurity.
Cost $10MORE INFO

Doorknock Prep Working Bee

Friday, August 16, 2024, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Help prepare the doorknocking lists for the weekend sessions.

Drop in to state office during the day on Friday to prep the doorknocking lists.

A lot of work has to be done to ensure our events are successful and our campaigns productive so come along and share the load. REGISTER

Silent Vigil for Palestine

Friday, August 16, 2024, from 06:30 PM at The Malls Balls, Rundle Mall, Adelaide

Join Health Workers for Palestine in memory of, and solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza and the West Bank. Wear your scrubs/uniform if you can. Non HCW folk, families and children are all welcome.MORE INFO

Sturt – Renters’ Rights Doorknock with Rob 

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Rose Reserve, 1A Kingsley Avenue, Glenunga

Did you know almost a third of South Australians are renters? Rents are increasing 5x faster than wages and both major parties refuse to support a rent freeze or rent caps.

Join Rob Simms for a doorknock and connect with renters in Sturt.REGISTER

Adelaide & Sturt All-In Doorknock

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Howard Florey Reserve, Campbell Road, Parkside

Adelaide and Sturt are joining forces once more for an ALL IN doorknock on the border of the two electorates.

We will hit the streets to talk to the good people of Parkside and Fullarton before heading to the Parkside Hotel for a social catch up and celebration.REGISTER

Anti Nuclear Power SA – Campaign meeting 

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at The Joinery, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide

Join Anti Nuclear campaigners in SA to talk about and plan how to stop the Nuclear power plant proposals in SA and nationwide. 

If you missed the previous online briefing you can watch it here.MORE INFO

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You have received this ‘Billionaire 🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒s Olivetti Research Group’ – at Noam Chomsky’s (but not the startling funtionalist University of California Berkeley’s Erving Goffman’s) old place of sitting-in-your-office typing shit and also talking a lot the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (known to old rich people as the alma mater) compendious big-data frogshit newsletter because we’ve got your profile and your consumer transactions totally typed and thought you’d like to read ‘something’ divergent, macro-scaled and opposite not apposite to the endless falling-to-vortical-infinity and it’s dark down there in that hole – goodness me children now y’all look the other way – of the lunatic neoclassical anodyne Right-thinking (traditional, original and at least 10k year-old human societies’ Right-side value, belief and cultural praxis that is exactly to say their law) academic cultural hegemons of late nineteenth century England (particularly the northern industrial indigenous and exogenous slave economies of one of my own four great-grandfathers) and those who sucked to and fiscally nurtured it among the ‘Ivy League’ colonial aristocrats of the East Coast USA including of course the slavers of the USA South and the Caribbean – right down 400.5 decades (officially) of retrograde pre-civil society brutalisation ‘reducing’ employee wages and maximising not optimising business profit without regard to any law, to a plainly ecocidal and tberefore within another decade genocidal result or end, or as we address the orgiastically ignorant Christian Old Testament fundamentalist halfwits my scholarly liberal socialist educated grandfather ACL Sanders so deplored and fought exercising political power absent of scrutiny by any court or legislative or administrative authority – or horrific man-made End of Times end as in the officially ‘expanded’ Northern Territory Top End economic circle 6 global region of Australia this day.

Sturt & Adelaide Social Drinks

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM at Parkside Hotel, 142 Glen Osmond Road, Parkside

After our afternoon doorknocking session the Adelaide & Sturt volunteers will head to the Parkside Hotel for a social catch up.REGISTER

Sturt Doorknock in Campbelltown

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Charlesworth Park, 6/16 Park Street, Campbelltown

Great-grandchildren

Join the Sturt Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Greens at Save the Cranker Rally – Sarah & Rob both speaking

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square, Adelaide

The grassroots campaign to save the “Cranker” – Crown & Anchor Hotel continues with a massive rally followed by live music on two stages at Adelaide’s most loved pub. Join Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Greens MLC Robert Simms to show your support for saving this iconic Adelaide place.

It is not just a heritage listed façade. It is not just a historical pub. It is not just a live music venue. It is alive, and we cannot lose it.REGISTER

Campaign Working Bee

Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Drop in to state office for an evening of volunteer recruitment, data entry and all the behind the scenes tasks that make our campaigns run. 

Please bring a laptop and a phone, or let us know if you need them to be provided. REGISTER

Recruitment Systems Training

Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Learn how to use ListManager, our platform for creating calling lists and recruiting volunteers. This will be a crucial tool for your campaign team. The training will cover how to use the systems, log your calls and contact notes, how to create a phone calling list and some best practice tips and tricks when on the phone!REGISTER

Sturt Market Stall at Fullarton

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 8:15 AM to 2:00 PM at Fullarton Market, Fullarton Road

Join the Sturt Greens team at the Fullarton Market to chat to locals about Greens policies and campaigns.

You can help out for the whole morning, or just pop by for a quick stint. Any and all help is appreciated! REGISTER

Sturt Weekend Doorknocks

Saturday, August 24 & Sunday, August 25, 2024

Join the Sturt Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

Saturday, August 24, 10am-1pm:Tusmore

Saturday, August 24, 2pm-5pm:Hazelwood Park

Sunday, August 25, 10am-1pm:Toorak Gardens

Sunday, August 25, 2pm-5pm:Heathpool

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.

SA Young Greens – NT Election Watch Party

Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 6:00 PM at State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Join the SA Young Greens to watch the NT election results unfold at State Office!

For more info, please email SAYG Co-Convenors on young.greens.convenor@sa.greens.org.au

Australia West Papua Association SA Quiz Night 

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Unley Community Centre, 18 Arthur Street, Unley

The Australia West Papua Association SA invites you to join our Quiz Night. Support the cause for the respect and empowerment of West Papuans’ human rights!

Doors open 6.30 for 7pm start. BYO food and drink. Admission $20 waged / $10 concession. Tables of up to 8-10 are welcome, as are individuals or small groups. Please bring some gold coins for games between the main quiz rounds.

Book with Dave on 0408 345 593 or dave-arkins@bigpond.com.MORE INFO

Adelaide Doorknock in Gilberton

Sunday, August 25, 2024, 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM at Park 8, Adelaide Parklands, Melbourne Street/Princes Hwy, Adelaide

Join the Adelaide Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Sturt Week of Action 

Monday, August 26 to Sunday, September 1, 2024

If you’ve been meaning to get involved in the campaign to win Sturt, then this is the week to do it!

Monday 26th August to Sunday 1st September: Sturt Letterboxing Blitz – help us deliver leaflets in your own time throughout this whole week.

Tuesday 27th August, 5.30-7.30pm: Campaign Working Bee – drop in to State Office to help out with volunteer recruitment, data entry, and all the behind the scenes tasks that make our campaigns run.

Calling all experienced doorknockers for our midweek POWER DOORKNOCKS:

Wednesday 28th August, 4-6pm: Power Doorknock in Rose Park

Thursday 29th August, 4-6pm: Power Doorknock in Glen Osmond

Join us for one or more of our weekend doorknocks as we chat with voters and find out about the issues they care about. No experience necessary, training will be provided:

Saturday 31st August, 10am-1pm: Linden Park Doorknock

Saturday 31st August, 2pm-5pm: Magill Doorknock

Sunday 1st September, 10am-1pm: Hillcrest Doorknock

Sunday 1st September, 2pm-5pm: Burnside Doorknock

What’s On in September?

The Greens | Branch | Action Group | Community

Greens at Walk for Respect

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square, Adelaide

Walk for Respect – A peaceful, non-confrontational walk to raise awareness of the key signs of Domestic Violence & Coercive Control against women, men children!MORE INFO

AFOPA Quiz Night 2024

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 06:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Goodwood Community Centre, 32 Rosa Street, Goodwood

Young AFOPA invites you our annual night of fun and friendly competition, with all proceeds to support the work of AFOPA. BYO nibbles or supper. Tea, coffee, drinks available. Great prizes to be won!MORE INFO

Heysen Doorknock in Aldgate

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM opposite FRED Eatery, 220 Mount Barker Road, Aldgate

Get involved in the campaign to win Heysen! We’re knocking on doors in Aldgate to hear from our community about the issues they care about.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Boothby / Kingston Quiz Night

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM at Cove Civic Centre, 1 Ragamuffin Drive, Hallett Cove

Six fun rounds including political, local, environmental, music/movies, geography/history.

Tables of 8 – or come as a single, couple or other combination and we’ll match you to a table.REGISTER

The Koalas – A movie about survival 

Sunday, September 29, 2024, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Palace Nova East End Cinema, 3 Cinema Place, Adelaide

Join us for the ADELAIDE PREMIERE THE KOALAS – a movie about survival that tells stories of resilience of this iconic species in the face of threatened extinction in the wild.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young.

“Action comes out of brilliant movies like The Koalas” – Bob Brown

“You’ll be charmed. You’ll be dismayed. And then i bet you’ll be as angry as hell” – Tim Winton AOMORE INFO

Big Ride for Palestine SA – bike jerseys

The Big Ride for Palestine SA jerseys are ready!

The Jerseys have been professionally designed and feature the logos of key sponsors. For a limited time, there is an introductory price reduction for the first 50 sold. Get in early, buy a jersey, and fly the flag of support for Palestinian resistance on the streets of Adelaide.

Join us on our regular rides and also for the major AFOPA Run Walk and Ride for Palestine at Glenelg to be held on Sunday 13th October. ORDER ONLINE

ANMF Union Members Open Letter for Gaza

To all ANMF union members, retired members, nursing/midwifery students- let’s tell our union to speak up for human rights and healthcare in Gaza.

Please support us and share the link with nurses, midwives and personal care assistants. The open letter is national.

Civil society and businesses that want to stand with us and endorse the letter, as The Greens SA have done, please email anmfsamembers4peace@gmail.com.SIGN THE LETTER

Letterbox Robert Simms’ Adelaide Hills Community Survey

Can you help us deliver our Community Survey flyer into Adelaide Hills letterboxes?

We’re looking for letterboxers for Aldgate, Bridgewater, Crafers, Crafers West, Hahndorf, Heathfield, Mount George, Mylor, Norton Summit, Piccadilly, Stirling, Summertown, Upper Sturt, and Uraidla.

Email michael.donato@parliament.sa.gov.au to lend a hand.

Old Greens Tshirts

Do you have any old Greens (or just green) tshirts lying around that are really no longer fit to be worn? Here is the perfect recycling pathway for them!

Jacqui Hunter of Hunter Gatherings is organising a Nature Festival event celebrating the Adelaide Parklands, and is collecting old green tshirts to be cut up and transformed into scarves. If you have something suitable, they can be dropped to the Adelaide Sustainability Centre at The Joinery (111 Franklin Street, Adelaide) or to The Greens SA State Office (7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide) by Friday 6th September.

For more info, please contact Jacqui on huntergatherings1@gmail.com.

Greens SA Fundraising Working Group

Interested in helping to raise campaign funds? Please contact Peta-Anne Louth on hello@peta-anne.com to find out more about the Fundraising Working Group.

DONATE TO THE HEYSEN CAMPAIGN

Only 991 new votes are needed to win Heysen. We invite you to make a regular, or a one-off donation to the Heysen 2026 election campaign. All donations above $2.00 are tax-deductible. We thank you for your generosity.DONATE NOW

Join the Heysen Campaign Team Chat

Mayo Branch is campaigning for victory in the state seat of Heysen in 2026. We need just 991 new votes to win! Join the team and stay up to date with all the campaign developments and opportunities in our secure, end-to-end encrypted group chat.JOIN CHAT

Sign up to Adelaide Hills Councillor Melanie Selwood’s Newsletter

Want to stay updated on initiatives and community projects in the Adelaide Hills?
Sign up to Greens member, Councillor Melanie Selwood’s email newsletter for issues, events, and green wins in the Hills. Staying informed will help us win the seat of Heysen at the next state election.SIGN UP

Join the Queer Greens SA

Join the Queer Greens SA to find out about local actions and planning sessions related to LGBTIQA+ issues, and to get involved with social activities.

Sign up below, or email queer.greens@sa.greens.org.au for more details.SIGN UP

Greens SA Housing & Homelessness Action Group

South Australia is in the middle of a full-blown housing crisis. Join the Greens SA Housing & Homelessness Action Group to find out more about what we can do to take action in local communities.

Sign up below, or email housingaction@sa.greens.org.au for more details.SIGN UP

SA Young Greens

If you are under 30, come along to our monthly meeting on the second Sunday of every month, newcomers welcome! Link below to check out our socials for more info on the next meeting and other activities.

For more information, please email Young Greens Co-Convenors Declan and Lily on young.greens.convenor@sa.greens.org.auSOCIAL LINKS

Borrow our Home Energy Toolkit

We now have a Home Energy Toolkit available to hire from the state office. Please email saoffice@sa.greens.org.au to borrow (for a maximum of 1 week).

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The following song excerpt – 4 paragraphs ahead – and of course the title of this wistful document about how we really make successful liberal democracies out of bourgeois consumer society pluralism when the lower middle class on five continentas is being hollowed out, devoured, extinguished no-bones-spat-out by the billionaire’ mil-ind-sci-financier cabal – is not for my part anything much to do with the inspiration of Ray Charles, boy-girl stories or “other lovers (goodness-me),”Harrison dcd 2002’s first wife PH, marijuana, cocaine, Crystal(🥳) methamphetamine, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1969, Ritalin, MDMA mescaline, ‘Bipolar,’ “affective” disorder, other depressive mental illness originating in overstimulation shock or psychological/ physiological trauma, the scores of recording ‘industry’ covers or the millions of utterly useless human vanity-project words and tributes a lá the disappointed preacher Ecclesiastes* some fools expect to zip & flash & whoosh up & down & about bits of quartz with teeny-weeny welds & circuits, pins, plugs & wires on them for decades, even hundreds of years for Christ’s sake, in huge sheds or factories, energy profligate, and within two or three years impossible to cool with fresh water because there’ll be entire cities that can no longer get enough of that stuff), in Semiconductor fabrication plants, email account-fleecing captive labour camps, gulags and USA prisons – is what i offer at this time as kind of cry of the common man or woman.

* Ἐκκλησιαστής, romanized: Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim (“Writings”) of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the ChristianOld Testament

‘You’re asking me will my love grow
I don’t know, I don’t know
You stick around, now it may show
I don’t know, I don’t know..’

So yes we need to talk about what works. That’s me done for today.

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John Blundell

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55 year McLuhanite Scholar

Post Socratic Logic

Neurolinguistics

Philosophy of Science

Economics

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