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...
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...
Include and compromise — don’t divide and conquer: Tendrils of Hope from Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtN1nIHXSY I really enjoyed this conversation with my friend Peyton Bowman which celebrates the possibility that Australia might be able to show the world how...
Free speech and social media moderation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JlLFKUF_eA This video discussion, audio downloadable here, discusses the issues raised in this post. I've previously expressed some dissatisfaction with what I might call a...
Ideas, hacks, representation by sampling and political theory
This post began as a long tweet thread in response to Tim Dean's asking for my views on New Zealand's tilt toward proportional representation (PR)....
Some podcasting for democracy
https://twitter.com/InfiniteL88ps/status/1475453302653349890 Hi All. Just to let you know of a podcast I did with Jim O'Shaugnessey's program "Infinite loops". You can download it from this...