Updates, explainers, and news about building a participatory democracy party for Australia.
Victoria spent over $1.1 billion on a freeway that was never built - then spent years in court over it. The East West Link saga is a masterclass in how major parties waste public money on unpopular projects, and why ordinary Victorians deserve a direct say in how their taxes are spent.
Read moreVictorian ambulances spent over 80,000 hours ramped outside emergency departments last year - time paramedics couldn't respond to new calls. This is what happens when governments manage optics instead of outcomes.
Read moreQueensland has spent years cycling through tough-on-crime announcements and emergency legislative patches - but youth reoffending rates remain stubbornly high. Here's why the politics keeps winning over the evidence.
Read moreQueensland is simultaneously collecting record billions from coal royalties and promising a clean energy future - and the tension between those two goals is costing ordinary Queenslanders dearly. Here's what both major parties don't want to talk about.
Read moreThe Brisbane 2032 Olympics budget has already ballooned before a single venue is built - and if history is any guide, taxpayers will be left holding the bill while politicians celebrate on the world stage.
Read moreQueensland clears more native vegetation than any other state in Australia - and the laws meant to stop it keep getting quietly watered down. Here's who benefits, who pays, and why voters never get a real say.
Read moreSouth East Queensland has flirted with water crisis twice in twenty years, yet the infrastructure decisions that left millions of residents vulnerable keep getting repeated. Here's why - and who benefits from the status quo.
Read moreWestern Australia sits on one of the world's most valuable mineral deposits, yet the royalty rate mining giants pay hasn't meaningfully changed in decades. We break down who's getting rich, who's missing out, and why neither major party wants to talk about it.
Read morePerth keeps sprawling outward, leaving new residents stranded in car-dependent suburbs with little public transport - and both major parties keep approving it. Here's who benefits, who pays, and why voters would likely choose very differently if they had a real say.
Read moreWestern Australia's prolonged COVID border closure lasted longer than almost any comparable jurisdiction on earth - and the legal, economic, and democratic questions it raised still haven't been properly answered.
Read moreWestern Australia's FIFO workforce model has delivered billions in mining profits - but at a devastating cost to regional towns, local families, and the social fabric of communities that will long outlast the boom.
Read moreAustralia's plan to dump radioactive waste on South Australian land - over the objections of local communities and Traditional Owners - is a textbook case of top-down decision-making that bypasses the people most affected. Here's what's really going on.
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