The David Solomon Lecture: Government 2.0 a couple of years on . . .
https://youtu.be/ftssK9b8WFI Finding a formatting mess when I looked this up on Troppo, I've reposted it here for the record. I'm a bit embarrassed by my...
Morrison’s “secret powers” scandal: democracy is safe
Scott Morrison's "secret powers" are being heralded in much of the media as proof that he was up to no good. The simpler explanation is...
Journalism as a system of domination: Peter Dutton edition
https://twitter.com/abc730/status/1557673265493344259 Peter Dutton is a human being. That’s not a moral point I’m making — I’m just talking about the task of making sense of...
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...
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...
Australia enters the post-party phase of Western democracy
Originally published on The Interpreter. Two federal elections ago, in 2016, the primary vote for the Labor Party and the Liberal-Nationals coalition reached record lows,...