Updates, explainers, and news about building a participatory democracy party for Australia.
Australians in flood plains, cyclone corridors, and bushfire zones are facing insurance premiums so high that coverage has become unaffordable - and both major parties have largely stood aside while the market decides who deserves protection.
Read moreAustralian governments keep pouring billions into freeways while public transport crumbles - not because voters want it, but because of who funds political parties and who gets to make the decisions. Here's the uncomfortable truth about where your infrastructure money actually goes.
Read moreIt costs more to fly from Sydney to Brisbane than from Sydney to Bali - and that's not an accident. Australia's privatised airport monopolies are legally permitted to gouge passengers, and both major parties have spent decades letting them do it.
Read moreAcross regional Australia, train services have been quietly axed, downgraded, or left to rot - a slow-motion policy failure that has disconnected communities, hurt local economies, and widened the gap between city and country. Here's what happened, who's responsible, and why voters would almost certainly choose differently if they had a real say.
Read moreAustralian governments have spent years sending contradictory signals on electric vehicles - taxing them, subsidising them, then quietly winding back support. Here's what's actually happened, who's been hurt, and why voters deserve a direct say in transport policy.
Read moreAustralian electoral laws let political donors stay hidden for up to 18 months after an election - and both major parties designed it that way. Here's what that costs democracy, and who's paying the price.
Read moreA single minister can cancel your visa, detain you indefinitely, or override a tribunal decision - with almost no accountability. This is not an edge case. It is Australian immigration law as designed.
Read moreAustralia is one of the few democracies that actively prosecutes the people who expose government wrongdoing - and both major parties have cheered it on. Here's the full story of how our secrecy laws criminalise accountability.
Read moreAustralia's mandatory sentencing laws have been quietly expanding for decades - locking up more people, costing taxpayers billions, and achieving none of their stated goals. Here's what the evidence actually shows, and why politicians keep doing it anyway.
Read moreAustralia's cashless welfare card quarantines up to 80% of welfare recipients' income, restricting what they can buy and where. The evidence says it doesn't work - so why does it keep coming back?
Read moreEvery election cycle, hundreds of millions of dollars in public money flows not to where it's needed most, but to where it can buy the most votes. This is pork barrelling - and both major parties have turned it into an art form.
Read moreIn 2019, the Morrison government redirected $100 million in community sports infrastructure funding away from merit-based recommendations and toward marginal electorates - a scandal that exposed how political parties treat public money as a campaign tool. Here's what happened, why it matters, and why it keeps happening.
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