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CommonEndeavour
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A place to explore political possibilities.
Putting care and connection at the heart of our politics.

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Common Endeavour has updated and added a few words on each of our values to a new 7-values page.

Yes, seven is quite a lot of values for one political organisation.

What can we say? There's a lot to Common Endeavour.

#AusPol #Subsidiarity #Joy

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The 7 values of Common Endeavour
1.     Generosity Because we all have to live together and none of us is perfect. And because we care. 2.     Courage Because it’s hard work to disagree with people. Because it’s hard work to make...
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February 19, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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A post about the error of equating people with the bad things they do, the ever-present possibility of redemption, and the self-fulfilling tragedy of othering.

#CarePolitics #Connection

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Last night I went to an Active Democracy Bean panel discussion about some serious issues at the Australian Capital Territory's jail - the Alexander Maconochie Centre. It was an often painful and… ...
Last night I went to an Active Democracy Bean panel discussion about some serious issues at the Australian Capital Territory's jail - the Alexander Maconochie Centre. It was an often painful and heart...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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A LinkedIn article about the poet Ross Gay, delight, wilderness, and joy. Just the usual.

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Tending joy and practicing delight
After listening to the 7th Episode of Krista Tippett's Hope Portal series at the On Being podcast, I've decided to accept Krista's encouragement to take up Ross Gay's practice of noticing something de...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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We should probably all be reading a lot more Iris Murdoch.

Sometimes that something is someone.

#Connection
An Iris Murdoch quotation: Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Applications are now open!

This is long overdue but utterly wonderful that Australia is finally getting a poet laureate!

Will be announced in October. Can hardly wait!

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National Poet Laureate
The National Poet Laureate is a three‑year appointment that recognises an outstanding Australian poet whose work and cultural contribution have shaped contemporary poetry and its readership.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Is a bill of rights a good way to build social capital and social cohesion as @juliannes.bsky.social suggests?

That would be great but consider Ted Mack’s concerns that a bill of rights will politicise the judiciary and weaken democracy…

#AusPol #CommEnd

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The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz
What’s happening on American streets makes clear that a charter of rights does not prevent state overreach. But human rights must be more than a debating point
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February 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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Terrific news about the Ipswich big battery. An amazing development on the old Swanbank coal fired power station site.

www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...
Big Ipswich battery powers up
The state Government introduces a new full-capacity grid-scale battery in response to demands for affordable and sustainable energy.
www.indailyqld.com.au
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Love this idea of “rebellious connection” from the folk at Good Conflict.

People expecting division? Connect anyway. You just might see the power of diversity in action.

Takes courage but many worthwhile things do. And you’ve got it.

www.thegoodconflict.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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In Davos , Canadian PM Mark Carney talked about the dangers of unconsidered connection.

“Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.”

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#AusPol #Connection
‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney
In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here
theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Join in the polis chat @CAPADAUS.bsky.social are running.

WHAT do you want GOVERNMENT to do for us in 2026?

Take our poll to help shape a clear message to our MPs
Vote on others' ideas
Share the poll widely: more people, stronger message.
Details & links: canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Daydreaming is good for social connection!

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Why you should put down your phone and daydream instead
Most people look at their phones when they have free time. But studies suggest there are serious benefits to letting your mind wander.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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We know parent-child relationships are important for children's health. Now we are learning that supporting safe, stable & nurturing relationships in the first three years of childhood can prevent the harm that comes from childhood adversity.

www.apa.org/monitor/2026...

#ChildHealth #Connection
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January 25, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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A LinkedIn post about the ease of, and the trouble with, looking down on others.

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#connection | Remo Ostini
I’m going through a Ballpark Music phase. Going to the BPM concert last year was one of most fun things I did in 2025. As well as the energy and joy that comes with their music they often have intere...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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A new publication from the National Academies (USA) about the the way "mutual, meaningful, and affirming moments of connection" in our earliest relationships help build "thriving children, families, and communities."

www.nationalacademies.org/publications...

#Connection
A screenshot of the report's description. It says: "Early relationships are foundational for lifelong health, learning, and well-being. Mutual, meaningful, and affirming moments of connection in the youngest relationships support brain development, resilience, and social-emotional growth. These experiences, known as early relational health (ERH), can also buffer the impacts of adversity and help create pathways toward thriving children, families, and communities."
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Life was never meant to be a DIY project.

It’s also true that no one in the world can live your life as well as you.
You just shouldn’t be expected to do it on your own.

#connection #DIY
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Perfectly captures our need to be both alone and connected.

#connection
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. - Rainer Maria Rilke
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Agree that it’s important to state that climate report says we’ll just miss the 2030 target but miss the 2035 target by a mile.

It also noted that we achieved our biggest CO2 reduction outside Covid. So perhaps there is reason to hope for more improvement.

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November 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Stephen Dubner on what he learnt from hanging out with economists — probability and clear-eyed reasoning is important.

And what he didn’t — the connection between people is far more important.

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Hanging out with economists did make me really think about making a lot more decisions on a fully rational basis. Economists bring a cold — not a cold-blooded, but a cold-eyed rationality to a lot of policy conversations that are very, very important. And I will never give up on that. But if you start looking at everything that way, it makes you a cold person. And so I feel like, for a while, I tried a form of being — as a parent, as a husband, as friend — that was a little bit like, That really doesn’t matter, the data show that doesn’t matter. And even though the data show that it doesn’t matter, how people feel about it matters. We’re all a lot more than what the probabilities say. Probability is very important, and data is important. But I feel like the connection between people is far more important. Decency is a virtue that has been appreciated throughout civilization. We see it. We have the ancient writings. I think it’s appreciated differently now than it has been in the past. But I think it will be appreciated more in the future and I think that decency is a kind of foundation upon which to build your life.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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A new post on LinkedIn about a beautiful podcast from Yo Yo Ma and Anna Gonzales.

Reminding us of the importance of place to who we are, and the dangers of throwing in your lot with an extractive industry.

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Our Common Nature
Our Common Nature is a beautiful new show by Anna Gonzales of Radiolab and Terrestrials fame. It's a podcast project of Yo Yo Ma with not as much Yo Yo Ma as I was expecting but a beautiful exploratio...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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A thoughtful exploration of important ideas about what it means that something is being said at all, rather than the specific words being said.

Points to the important nexus between the market for ideas and the role of leadership.

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By @timhollo.bsky.social
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Political Psychology?
"The point, in short, is that we need to talk less about politics (in the sense of arguing with people) and instead build a world where those people are likely to encounter more and thus change their ...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Thank you @david-ritter.bsky.social for your informed, thoughtful interview on the 7am podcast.

It is deeply encouraging to hear someone speak calmly and clearly about all that has already been achieved while still highlighting how far we have to go - as fast as possible.

#connection #AusPol
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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What's Common Endeavour about?

Connection. Not always easy but important.

Political parties are important too - but don't always do a lot to help connection.

The goal of Common Endeavour is to to be a party focused on the importance of connection.

#connection #auspol #DemocracySausage
Common Endeavour Is about connection . Connection with each other between our communities with the world around us Common Endeavour recognises that connection isn’t always easy, and yet... Connection is how we thrive is how we stay safe is the reason for Common Endeavour Common Endeavour believes that... Political parties are important to how we live together; provide a vehicle for working out and doing what’s important to our communities; are not currently where we need them to be The goal of Common Endeavour is to become a party of government
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Potato ethics, by Malin Fors, in Bioethical Inquiry is one of our best reads of the year. Not only showing the value of ordinary ethics (Veena Das) and relational ethics (Joan Tronto) but also what rural experience can teach us all about being useful.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37043082/

#connection
Potato Ethics: What Rural Communities Can Teach Us about Healthcare - PubMed
In this paper I offer the term "potato ethics" to describe a particular professional rural health sensibility. I contrast this attitude with the sensibility behind urban professional ethics, which often focus on the narrow doctor-patient treatment relationship. The phrase appropriates a Swedish meta …
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy is hosting an afternoon event on Sunday, December 14 to show how the online political collaboration tool Pol.is works.

If you’re in town in December, go along and find out what it’s about.

Register here

canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
Events - Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
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November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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"Parasocial" is Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year

One-sided relationships with people seen in media, or with chatbots, that resemble relationships with 'real' people.

These can be felt as strong connections despite people not knowing them.

#Connection

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'Parasocial' is Cambridge Dictionary's 2025 word of the year
The connection someone feels with a person they don't know is captured in Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year for 2025 – “parasocial”.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM