Category: Politics
Universal basic needs should be met for all before anyone can achieve and chase profit. One person’s liberty should not outweigh someone else’s life.
Australian politics is a circus, think of these articles as the well deserved rotten produce being hurled at the mediocre (if we’re being generous) performance.
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Praxis Paralysis
I have been feeling a fair bit of #praxisParalysis over the last two years. Honestly I can’t believe it’s been that long since my last upload. Man how times change in such a short span. The more I learn, the harder it seems to see the path forward that lifts humanity out of it’s current…
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Real World Value
Incredible video from the BBC, I’ve never heard someone so succinctly describe the fundamental issue with economics and the way it drives our governmental systems.
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Call of the Commune
My friends and I often joke about packing up and leaving the city to buck the trend by pooling our resources for commune living. Our joke has even gone so far as to have people picking out their desired roles & responsibilities within our made up pseudo-society. This musing isn’t unique to us; there is…
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Solarpunk
What started as pure aesthetic has become social underground with books and manifestos building an optimistic ideological movement providing much needed hope for the future.
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The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Republic
With a change of monarch many Australians are starting to question is it time to change up our way of government. Time for a republic?
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AILS: Capitalism
Assumptions Before I began my quest to learn about one of (if not the) most prevalent economic systems in the world, I had some very specific ideas about what capitalism was. Firstly, I thought that capitalism’s main aim was to redistribute wealth amongst the population. Secondly, I thought it was the only market based economic…
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Anti Trolling or Pro Litigation
Is old rhetoric or public good driving the latest batch of bills proposed by the Morrison LNP government.
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Homeowner Dream Killer
Owning a home as a first home buyer is getting further and further out of reach, negative gearing and investors might be to blame.
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Scotty Can’t Market
Pork-barrelling has become a new addition to the everyday Australian vernacular. This term, to break it right down, basically means throwing money at a constituency to ensure their votes go one way or the other. The issue is this is exactly not what governments are suppose to do, the budget should be spread relatively evenly…
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Knowledge is Power – Society is Weak
Never more true than today, knowledge is power. Or more aptly in today’s world the ability to provide & control the flow of knowledge is power. Recently there’s been several large course corrections occur, several years too late but hey, better late than never as the saying goes. This highlights one of the biggest and…
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