An Alt-left?
https://youtu.be/gYKPWkvTRIg I What is it with James Burnham? I associate him — via Curtis Yarvin — with the alt-right. And Burnham is the founding text...
Universal basic income: notes of an agnostic
[caption id="attachment_36299" align="aligncenter" width="1912"] I got this list from Google Images. It's a good checklist though some may quibble with some of it.[/caption] Michael Haines,...
Gruen: detox democracy through representation by random selection
I use Troppo to make various notes for file as it were for reference in future. And on wanting to record something I found that...
Some thoughts on fixing the Australian health system
This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in Crikey on 3 June 2022. As I see it, the four most pressing...
The case for greater use of secret ballots in parliament
If we want politicians to actually represent their constituents, we need to free them from the pressure of toeing the party line. A week or...
The case for more secret ballots within our legislatures
This is a piece I did for Crikey I'd forgotten I'd written and hadn't put it up here. So now I have. The article was...