Tag: Australia

cybernetics

what holds a society together?

Post author By G
Post date Jul 11, 2026
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Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?

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cybernetics

the differential structure of Australia’s housing crisis

Post author By G
Post date Jul 10, 2026
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Australia’s housing crisis is not a collection of separate failures. It is what happens when finance, construction, wages, planning, and social policy move at different speeds while remaining inseparably connected.

politics

the trouble with monoculture

Post author By G
Post date Jul 6, 2026
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Culture survives because it changes. A culture that cannot change is not being preserved. It is being embalmed.

Philosophy

aussie media fail

Post author By G
Post date Jun 24, 2026
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Theirs is a role play of analysis, simply and unwittingly giftwrapping populist-adjacent themes for broad public consumption; little on insight, big on performative role play.

cybernetics

finger-painting australia into an ideological corner: populism

Post author By G
Post date Jun 23, 2026
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Just my perspective.
Your mileage may vary.

Tags Australia, Australie, Australien, オーストラリア, ガバナンス, システム思考, ポピュリズム, ワンネーション, démocratie, democracia, democracy, democrazia, Demokratie, Fremdenfeindlichkeit, gobernanza, gouvernance, governance, grievance politics, instituciones, Institutionen, institutions, istituzioni, One Nation, pensamiento sistémico, pensée systémique, pensiero sistemico, política del agravio, politica del risentimento, political simplification, Politik der Ressentiments, politique du ressentiment, politische Vereinfachung, populism, populisme, populismo, Populismus, Regierungsführung, semplificazione politica, simplificación política, simplification politique, Systemdenken, systems thinking, xénophobie, xenofobia, xenophobia, 制度, 外国人嫌悪, 政治的単純化, 民主主義, 不満の政治

money

cold comfort for change

The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.

Tags Australia, economy, failure, homelessness, housing affordability, housing crisis, indifference, inequality, poverty, property market, public housing, rental stress, social housing, speculation, winter

politics

adaptation: fixing aussie politics

Post author By G
Post date Jun 21, 2026
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There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.

politics

populism down under

The appeal of populism is that it makes complexity feel unnecessary. The cost is usually discovered much later.

politics

australia, please…

Populists tell you they’re going to smash the system for your benefit. Funny how it still always seems to end with the rich getting richer, the government getting worse, and everyone else paying for the repairs.

politics

political speed-dating down under: the golden bulldozer

Post author By G
Post date Jun 20, 2026
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Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.

politics

please explain: xenophobia

Xenophobia does not stop a changing world. It converts psychological vulnerability into political power.

politics

power without responsibility: political incompetency down under

Post author By G
Post date Jun 15, 2026
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Power without responsibility is not merely a political failure. It is the central pathology of the attention economy: influence is purchased, outrage is amplified, incompetence is rewarded, and when the consequences arrive, everyone points at the voters as though the stage built itself.

Tags attention economy, Australia, australian-politics, democratic decay, governance-failure, influence without consequence, institutional failure, media spectacle, One Nation, outrage-politics, Pauline Hanson, political accountability, political competence, political donors, political incompetence, populism, power without responsibility, status hierarchy, wealthy donors