A Vibrant Darwin CBD – vision and reality
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6V7XU5H6A] It seems like time to review progress on the Gunner government’s quest to create a vibrant Darwin CBD. They actually appointed an assistant...
Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
As far as I can tell, the position of the Australian Republic Movement ever since the failure of the 1999 Republic Referendum has effectively if...
John Burnheim on theory and practice in understanding the world
In an exchange, John Burnheim sent me an email which seemed to me to be the effective condensation of a lot of good thinking. It certainly...
OECD brain eaten by environmental memes
The OECD has joined The Movement. In a new report it's saying that plastic recycling isn't working. So we've got to make it work. Fair enough....
Citizens’ juries as activism: holding political elites to their constitutional role
For some time now we've been 'proving up' citizens’ juries as a means of consulting the people, but generally within the context of governments being...
Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles (Deutschland films that is)
Beginning tomorrow. Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks The Silent Revolution (Opening Night) It’s 1956 and during a visit to West Berlin, high...
Orations, orations orations … out they go
[caption id="attachment_31009" align="alignleft" width="865"] I happened upon this post in 'drafts' without my having drafted anything. Events now make that unnecessary.[/caption]