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politics

big money, small ideas: power corrupts politics

The future will not be defined by any single party or leader. It will be defined by the widening gap between the complexity of the systems governing society and the increasingly simplified narratives through which society attempts to understand them

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cybernetics

Angus Taylor’s Immigration Turn: When Populism Borrows the Machinery of the State

The Coalition’s recent turn on immigration should not be read only as a policy announcement. I read it as a communication event built around one of the oldest political instruments available: the conversion of broad social anxiety into a visible outsider. In its own language, the Coalition’s Australian Values Migration Plan promises to strengthen “Australian […]