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Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Economics and public policy History Politics - international Politics - national

Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy

David Walker
April 5, 2025May 13, 2025
Donald Trump is still  trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
Climate Change Democracy Politics - national

Cheap gas? Cheap nuclear? Yeh nah

Ken Parish
April 1, 2025April 1, 2025
This article deals with Federal Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s election promise to force gas producers to reduce the price of gas for Australian consumers...
Gender Media Political theory Science Social

The ABC (ombudsman) stopped talking to me

Chris Lloyd
March 9, 2025March 12, 2025
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING...
Bargains Cultural Critique Gender History Race and indigenous Review Space

Is the cultural revolution on gender, race and sexual orientation at risk?

Nicholas Gruen
January 28, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_IPF2GSpw As part of a new policy, I'm going to post stuff I've published on my substack here where it's substantial enough, or where I...
Democracy Sortition and citizens’ juries

Elections and Sortition: two systems, two destinies, two ways to do politics

Nicholas Gruen
January 26, 2025
  In the pretty likely event of a hung parliament after the next Australian election, the cross-bench becomes kingmaker. I’m hoping — and expecting —...
12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war
Economics and public policy IT and Internet Media Politics - national Web and Government 2.0

12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war

David Walker
December 31, 2024April 3, 2025
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That's pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025....
Best From Elsewhere Bullshit Coronavirus crisis Criminal law Cultural Critique Death and taxes Employment Ethics Innovation Isegoria Philosophy Sortition and citizens’ juries

Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code

Nicholas Gruen
December 12, 2024
The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitutional...

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