DrStewart Jackson

Project Opportunities

Title: Australian politics

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Research interests

Dr Jackson's first book, The Australian Greens: From Activism to Australia's Third Party, focused on the role of party members in shaping the Australian Greens, and the potential impact of success on the party's original aims and principles. This focus has led to a continuing examination of the philosophical drivers of the Greens, and the impacts of existing state and parliamentary institutions on that growth. 2018, saw the publication of his second, co-authored, title, Australian Politics in the 21st Century, an Australian politics textbook.

Dr Jackson’s current party research focuses on the physical and philosophical barriers to the development of the green parties in the Asia Pacific, requiring extended collaborations with parties across the region This research will also examine the potentials for green political movements and parties to emerge in the Asia Pacific, and has implications for the development of environmental parties across the geopolitical South.

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"Jo Vallentine: a political biography"
Jo Vallentine was the Greens first Australian federal MP, thus occupying a unique place in Green politic sin Australia. This will be the first biography of Vallentine.

"Transition from movement to political party: Greens in the Asia Pacific"
Green parties in the Asia Pacific (apart from Australia and New Zealand) have consistently struggled to make significant breakthroughs into national or even local politics. The project examines the Greens across the Asia Pacific to learn why.

"From Queensland to Greensland"
In the 2022 federal election Greens made an extraordinary breakthrough in capturing three inner-city Brisbane seats, claiming community campaigns allowed for these breakthroughs. This project, undertaken with Nathan Fitoritti (Monash) and Pheobe Hayman (La Trobe) examines the claims made by the Greens to understand if it was new camapign techniques or more-better of the same.