Updates, explainers, and news about building a participatory democracy party for Australia.
Australia's international student visa system has been quietly weaponised as a back-door migration pathway, enriching private colleges and property developers while suppressing wages, inflating rents, and leaving genuine students exploited. Both major parties built this mess - and neither has the incentive to fix it.
Read moreAustralia has made international commitments to cut emissions and reach net zero by 2050 - but the policies actually in place fall dramatically short of what's needed. Here's who's benefiting from the gap between promise and action.
Read moreThe federal government has quietly shelved water buybacks that scientists say are essential to saving the Murray-Darling river system - leaving irrigators, First Nations communities, and downstream towns paying the price for a policy designed to please the loudest voices in the room, not the evidence.
Read moreMillions of hectares of Australian bush cleared, species pushed toward extinction, and billions in climate costs - yet state governments keep loosening the rules. Here's who benefits, who pays, and why voters never get a say.
Read moreAustralia's plastic bag bans have generated enormous political goodwill - but the evidence suggests they've done almost nothing to address our actual waste crisis, while the real polluters escape scrutiny entirely.
Read moreAustralia keeps approving massive offshore gas projects while simultaneously pledging to cut emissions - and neither Labor nor the Coalition is willing to stop it. Here's who's really making these decisions, and who's paying the price.
Read moreAcross Australia, workers doing identical jobs side-by-side are being paid different wages and denied basic entitlements - not by accident, but by design. Labour hire loopholes have been quietly enriching staffing agencies and major corporations for decades, while workers pay the price.
Read moreAustralia's award wage system is a labyrinth of 121 industry awards, thousands of pay classifications, and penalty rate rules so complex that even employers struggle to comply - leaving workers systematically underpaid with little practical recourse.
Read moreAustralian workers are losing an estimated $1.35 billion in unpaid wages every year - and decades of weak enforcement, toothless penalties, and cosy relationships between government and big business have let employers get away with it. Here's why this keeps happening, and why ordinary Australians would never vote for a system that allows it.
Read moreFood delivery riders risk their lives on Australian roads for below-minimum-wage earnings, yet the law deliberately keeps them classified as independent contractors. Here's who benefits from this arrangement - and it isn't the workers.
Read moreAustralia's childcare subsidy system contains a brutal design flaw: earn a dollar more than certain thresholds and you can lose thousands in support overnight. This is the subsidy cliff, and it's driving families out of the workforce.
Read moreThe federal government promised energy relief through price caps and rebates - but Australian households are still paying record power bills. Here's what actually happened, who benefited, and why voters were left holding the bag.
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