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.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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.
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 →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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