The working behind our policies. Each memo takes one question, sets out what we found, names every source, and states what we would do about it — so anyone can check it for themselves. The policies themselves are in the Library.
What Sovereign Australia would do — the position, the mechanism, and the argument for it.
One FOI request in five is granted in full, an independent review takes 15.5 months, roughly 900 secrecy provisions are in force, and the only person imprisoned over Afghanistan is the man who exposed it. The default reversed: everything published, contracts in full with the price, Parliament captured and linked, whistleblowers protected, and a channel for any Australian with a better idea.
Read →The position issue by issue: the 1967 Green Line, the UN Commission finding on Gaza and the ICJ proceedings, Lebanon, displacement and the arrivals question, settlements and targeted sanctions, a full suspension of arms and components, a register of foreign military service, and foreign influence at home — with a table of where all five parties stand on each.
Read →At 30c/kWh an electric vehicle is three times cheaper to run than petrol; at 10c/kWh it is 8.9 times. Energy is an input cost inside every other price. Desert solar, an HVDC backbone, storage, and firm capacity of whatever type holds ten cents — with export, manufacturing and the emissions ledger.
Read →Lower power prices, EV uptake without a subsidy, higher productivity, and a surplus to export into the Asia-Pacific — with fuel security as the reason underneath. Keep the coal running, drill our own oil, build what ends the dependency. China shows it works on economics, not subsidies.
Read →Queensland charges its coal and gas on a price-stepped schedule and it works. A proposal to do the same nationally, for every commodity, on one levy applying onshore and offshore — and to charge a fair rate for gas and oil, which return 4.7 per cent of their value to the public today. Now with a Western Australian chapter: what the state sells, what it collects — 4.8 per cent on $220 billion — and the rate on every ore, commodity by commodity.
Read →Australia already builds communities for retirees and for mineworkers, lawfully and at scale. This memo opens the same model to everyone: privately owned mobile dwellings on shared rural land, communal living space and workshops, portable between communities — the entry rung to home ownership.
Read →The buildings are already built. A lawful pathway to convert empty offices and shop-tops, for a fixed term, into private rooms with shared living space, kitchens and work space — for the students, young workers, artists and older renters shut out of the cities.
Read →The coast is full and the coast is dear. The grand plan: 200 new towns across the inner nation, on land that costs almost nothing, with water carried down from the northern monsoon — and what cheap modern country homes would mean for Australian families.
Read →Six months of independent measurement found most under-16s still on the banned platforms — and the ones who got back in did so on adult accounts. One national parental control system, built with the platforms rather than forced on them, and AI taught in classrooms instead.
Read →Four separate systems can act on one separated family: restraining orders in the Magistrates Court, children in the Family Court, property and child support, and child protection in the Children’s Court. Each has its own law and timetable. How each works, what is never measured, and the case for a Western Australian Royal Commission.
Read →Social cohesion is the capacity of a population to act together, and every other function of government runs on it — violent conflict cost the world nearly US$20 trillion in 2024 alone. Division is taking hold here: belonging is at its lowest since records began and hostility toward one community rose sharply in two years. A national festival in every community, school partnerships across sectors, a paid national service year, truth-telling for all peoples, and legislation breaking media concentration.
Read →Excise has fallen from $16 billion to a forecast $3.56 billion while about 80 per cent of the nicotine Australians consume moved to illegal supply, with 215 arson attacks and one death. Cut the legal price, licence every seller, set an enforceable standard for vapes and nicotine products, publish every chemical, and return the crop and the manufacturing to Australians.
Read →The factual record — what is happening now, verified and sourced, with no policy stated.
Three different numbers get quoted at each other and all three are correct. Net migration over four decades with the 2006 series break marked, the permanent program by stream, the humanitarian program to scale, and the 2.97 million people here on temporary visas — including 432,300 on bridging visas. Three charts, seventeen sources, no policy.
Read →Part One: how it works now. Four separate systems can act on one separated family at once — protection orders, the family courts, child support and child protection — each with its own law, its own timetable and no shared record. This memo takes them in the order a family meets them: the violence and what it measures, police, orders, parenting matters, child support, removal, out-of-home care, foster and kinship carers, adoption and leaving care. Western Australian differences are marked inline. It makes no proposals; that is Part Two.
The second emergency. Overweight and obesity is the leading risk factor for ill health and death, cancer kills three Australians in ten, and Australia has the world’s highest rate of early-onset bowel cancer — three to four times higher for those born in the 1980s than the 1950s. Sixty per cent of our highest-volume pesticides are banned in Europe. Eight agencies check parts of what goes into Australians; none owns it.
Read →About 6,500 Australians a year die from suicide, drugs and alcohol combined — eighteen a day, five times the road toll. Behind them: $25 billion lost to gambling, 97,800 family violence offenders recorded in a year, and a rate unchanged for a decade. Sovereign Australia declares a national emergency and turns the resources of the Commonwealth on it.
Read →Australia takes about $61 billion a year from extracting its ore. What each state charges and collects, what the sector pays in company tax on top, why no state raises its rate, what Traditional Owners receive in law, and how the total divides between the Commonwealth, the states and Traditional Owners.
Read →A record of the current position. Prices, rents and vacancy; what is being built and by whom; what governments have committed; land, labour, builders, empty homes and demand — capital city and country, set out with sources and without argument.
Read →Groceries sit 25 to 35 per cent above 2021 and are not returning; renting households pay a record 33.1 per cent of gross income and one in ten pays more than 60 per cent. Relief operated on the published price rather than the underlying cost — the Bureau of Statistics recorded electricity rising 19.0 per cent excluding the rebates that hid it, against 8.8 published — and when the rebates expired the price rose to meet the cost. Europe ran the same experiment with different instruments and got the same result. Meanwhile Australian agriculture led every industry at 10.4 per cent productivity growth: the problem is not the farm, it is the chain between it and the shelf. Ten steps, and the two that change what a household needs to spend at all.
READ →Two companies own most of what Australians read. How the market became one of the most concentrated in the democratic world, what “bias” really means, and how we would open it up.
Read →The national broadcaster has stepped back from X and locked comments on its articles. For a publicly funded service whose charter is to engage citizens, that direction is the wrong one.
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