Summaries Overview
These are summaries of books, articles and seminars of interest to those of us promoting democracy.
Webinar: Power to Communities: Unlocking Battery Storage Opportunities
How to leverage stored power options for community benefit
Community Independents Project (CIP) Convention 2025
A summary of the main points from the 2025 Community Independents Project Convention, 2025
Plug In! The Electrification Handbook
Summary of Saul Griffith's book which promotes electrify everything
Woodside vs The Planet: How a Company Captured a country
Summary of the Quarterly Essay Woodside vs The Planet How a Company Captured a country by Marian Wilkinson
Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
Summary of the main points from the book Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Leveraging Parliament: Tools for Impact
This is a summary of Leveraging Parliament: Tools for Impact, by Cathy McGowan, one of the CIP Convention 2025 follow-up Webinars
Sue Barrett's The Fifth Estate Toolkit
This is an outline of Sue Barrett's The Fifth Estate Toolkit where she discussed the role of citizen journalism in the current political environment
This book delves into the various ways history can be written, and the ways history has been used by those in authority to achieve conformity.
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
Fraser argues in this book that Australia's strategic dependence on the USA is inappropriate and actually leaves us in a more dangerous position.