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George Monbiot Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 15:44 Source

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025

One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.

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Digitopoly Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 13:18 Source

Epiphany plays an outsized role in the reductionist two-step model of invention. Step one is when an idea pops into an inventor’s head, and step two is when the invention spreads in an economy over time.

This model is misleading in numerous ways that would take a book to enumerate. Today’s column focuses on step two, aiming to one piece. How and why do businesses embed the invention in products and services while the invention spreads?

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Club Troppo Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 12:45 Source

This article deals with Federal Coalition

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Digitopoly Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 00:33 Source

A prototype is a product or service’s early sample, model, or release. It is built to test a concept or process and serves as a tangible representation of an idea. Some prototypes are primarily commercial, while others are scientific.

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 21:12 Source

Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.

The post 2025 Budget betrays locked-out generation, kicks reform further down the road first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 14:41 Source

Value capture is an equitable and efficient funding mechanism to support the development of high speed rail. It ensures that those who benefit the most from high speed rail contribute to its cost.

The post Wilful Acts of Bastardry first appeared on Prosper Australia.

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Prosper Australia Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 14:55 Source

Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]

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Club Troppo Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 17:42 Source

There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” The capitalisation is not mine; it is in the executive order FFS! The Whitehouse is becoming an ALL_CAPS tweet factory.

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George Monbiot Friday, March 7, 2025 - 18:54 Source

Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2025

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?

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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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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. Illustration: Fibre optic … Continue reading →

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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.

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