This course will offer a 2 hour ‘live’ class each week, for 8 weeks on a Tuesday night, from 4pm-6pm AEST (starting Tues 2 May and finishing Tuesday 20 June 2023).
Each class will include a number of expert speakers, with discussions facilitated by the course hosts.
Participants will be provided with reading, viewing and listening material, to help you prepare for each week’s class. Watching and reading the set materials will help maximise your learning in the live classes.
Practical case studies and examples will be discussed each week, to enable participants to connect theory with practice.
Questions? Please email: nena@neweconomy.org.au
Course Schedule
| Week | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 2 May 2023 | Introduction to Economics |
| Week 2 | 9 May 2023 | Creating Systems Change |
| Week 3 | 16 May 2023 | Social justice and decolonising the economy |
| Week 4 | 23 May 2023 | Ownership, Property & the Commons |
| Week 5 | 30 May 2023 | Work, Business & Universal Basic Income |
| Week 6 | 6 June 2023 | Housing - affordability, availability and sustainability |
| Week 7 | 13 June 2023 | Energy - fossil fuels, renewables, demand and efficiency |
| Week 8 | 20 June 2023 | Food - systems change and regenerative agriculture + conclusions and course wrap up |
Course Facilitator and Guest Speakers
- Dr Richard Denniss, Australia Institute
- Adjunct Associate Professor Mary Graham, Kombumerri First Nations person and University of Queensland
- Katherine Trebeck, Co-Founder of the International Wellbeing Economy Alliance
- Tim Hollo, The Green Institute
- Dr Michelle Maloney, New Economy Network Australia and Australian Earth Laws Alliance
- Associate Professor Louise Crabtree, Western Sydney University
- Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education Institute
- April Crawford-Smith, Pingala Energy
- Antony McMullen, Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (BCCM)
- Professor Brendan Mackey, Griffith Climate Action Beacon
- Professor Bronwen Morgan, UNSW
- Dr Nick Rose, Sustain
- Elena Pereya, Co-Housing Australia
- Dr Jose Ramos, Action Foresight
- Mike Salvaris, Australian National Development Index (ANDI)
- Professor Yin Paradies, Deakin University
Facilitated by
- Dr Michelle Maloney, New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA)
- Rhiannon Hardwick, NENA
Testimonials from previous students
This is the course I’ve been wanting for 10 years! I’ve spent a decade grappling with ‘where to next?’ economically, given the huge gaps in our economic systems and models, which don’t value the living systems of the earth. This course addresses these wicked problems in the only way they can be addressed: collaboratively, with many voices, in both theoretical and place-centred ways. The many excellent, provocative speakers brought a range of intellectual disciplines, frameworks, skills and experience to bear on the critical issues of this moment. I cannot recommend this course more highly to anyone wanting to stretch their thinking and expand their communities to create new ways of material being in community on this earth.
This short course was such an enjoyable journey of connection for me- with such wisdom and heart, from not just the presenters but the other fellow journey makers. Each module and each conversation helped create a richer tapestry from where emergence can unfold.
I live on a rural family farm where we have a passion for creating community and working with natural intelligence. So many big ideas have felt to fall on mute ears over the years, but this course has helped to create both an energetic and practical emergent framework for our larger vision. I am sure it will do that for others who enrol.
I live on a rural family farm where we have a passion for creating community and working with natural intelligence. So many big ideas have felt to fall on mute ears over the years, but this course has helped to create both an energetic and practical emergent framework for our larger vision. I am sure it will do that for others who enrol.
Canada (Turtle Island) is facing many of the same rapidly developing ecological, economic and social challenges being experienced in Australia. NENA’s short course provided a bedrock of understanding from historical root causes to current potential solutions at both local and global levels. This is an essential course for anyone who is attempting to respond to real world problems. With the excellent learning materials, the expert facilitators and a weekly discourse I gained more confidence and a clearer systems perspective on where the inter-related levers of change need to be applied in the scope of my work.