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George Monbiot Friday, February 28, 2025 - 21:02 Source

If the US is now our enemy, how do we defend ourselves?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  27th February 2025

All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a much bigger and more troubling question: how we might defend ourselves against the US.

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George Monbiot Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 23:06 Source

By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2025

If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.

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Prosper Australia Sunday, February 23, 2025 - 17:47 Source

Prosper Australia today expressed deep disappointment at the Victorian Government’s continued failure to implement value capture mechanisms in its recent upzoning announcements. By allowing landowners to reap windfall gains without returning a fair share to the community, the government has missed a vital opportunity to fund essential infrastructure and public services.

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Prosper Australia Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:54 Source

What could $27 billion fund if Commonwealth-state transfers were adjusted to bring revenue and expenses for each level of government closer to balance?

The post Buying better income taxes with better land taxes first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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Prosper Australia Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:05 Source

Over the past century and a half, politics and economics have evolved significantly in how we manage society. Yet, the core principle remains: every person born on this earth has a right to a share of its bounty.

The post The Tax Shift first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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Prosper Australia Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:00 Source

The relationship between older, younger, and future Australians and our tax and spending priorities is based on an implicit generational bargain. Working age taxpayers support older and younger Australians and can expect the next generation to support them in the same way, and economic and social development will enable each successive generation to enjoy rising living standards. At the very least, we should not leave the next generation worse off.

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Club Troppo Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 13:49 Source

As part of a new policy, I’m going to post stuff I’ve published on my substack here where it’s substantial enough, or where I want to be able to link to it without the distraction of all the other stuff I pack into my weekly substack digest.

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Club Troppo Tuesday, December 31, 2024 - 19:41 Source

What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025. Governments, forecasters and the media can all learn lessons from this episode.

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Friday, December 27, 2024 - 03:05

It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post.

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Digitopoly Friday, December 27, 2024 - 03:05 Source

It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, December 23, 2024 - 15:59 Source

Plan International Australia Media Release December 26 marks 20 years since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which claimed the lives of 230,000 people and [...]

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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:53 Source

He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes coarsened him, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly relevant academic texts.The [...]

The post Concentrated Markets and Iceless Fokkers appeared first on The AIM Network.

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