Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
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Promoting people participation in Politics. Incorporating Active Democracy Australia.
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Yes, well
I told ye all,
When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,
’Twould fall upon ourselves.
When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,
’Twould fall upon ourselves.
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Yes, well
Sunday's Pol.is session video, more information, share text idea and the Pol.is survey all available in the top tab here: bit.ly/3XZgr32.
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Sunday's Pol.is session video, more information, share text idea and the Pol.is survey all available in the top tab here: bit.ly/3XZgr32.
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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On extending our concept of direct action
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
Becoming the Rising Tide
The unintentional three week hiatus in publishing here at In Between Days, and the consequent further delay in finishing the promised piece on the necessity and limits of left populism, are (largely) ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
On extending our concept of direct action
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change."
New Comms Declare research shows that the Queensland Museum is delivering Shell-branded educational materials that distort or omit fundamental climate science.
➡️ Read Lisa Wills' full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
New Comms Declare research shows that the Queensland Museum is delivering Shell-branded educational materials that distort or omit fundamental climate science.
➡️ Read Lisa Wills' full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
“Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change."
New Comms Declare research shows that the Queensland Museum is delivering Shell-branded educational materials that distort or omit fundamental climate science.
➡️ Read Lisa Wills' full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
New Comms Declare research shows that the Queensland Museum is delivering Shell-branded educational materials that distort or omit fundamental climate science.
➡️ Read Lisa Wills' full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Today's blog post is one I've been working on for a while - I have drawn a map of what the electoral map could look like if the Parliament expanded to 16 senators per state and 200 seats in the House. #auspol
What might an expanded parliament map look like?
A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded. We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the hist…
www.tallyroom.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Today's blog post is one I've been working on for a while - I have drawn a map of what the electoral map could look like if the Parliament expanded to 16 senators per state and 200 seats in the House. #auspol
Doing what governments won't for ourselves, ourselves.
On extending our concept of direct action
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
What would it mean to become the rising tide?
in-between-days.ghost.io/becoming-the...
Becoming the Rising Tide
The unintentional three week hiatus in publishing here at In Between Days, and the consequent further delay in finishing the promised piece on the necessity and limits of left populism, are (largely) ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Doing what governments won't for ourselves, ourselves.
What action do we want our MPs to take in 2026?
CAPaD is offering the chance to have a conversation with them about that.
1st step, December 14, introduction to Pol.is (a tool to help communities collect and prioritise ideas).
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
CAPaD is offering the chance to have a conversation with them about that.
1st step, December 14, introduction to Pol.is (a tool to help communities collect and prioritise ideas).
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What action do we want our MPs to take in 2026?
CAPaD is offering the chance to have a conversation with them about that.
1st step, December 14, introduction to Pol.is (a tool to help communities collect and prioritise ideas).
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
CAPaD is offering the chance to have a conversation with them about that.
1st step, December 14, introduction to Pol.is (a tool to help communities collect and prioritise ideas).
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
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Today's podcast is with Sarah Cameron about the 2025 Australian Election Study. We discuss generational and gender splits, Peter Dutton's (lack of) popularity, changing attitudes to the USA and voter dealignment.
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
Podcast #158 – The 2025 Australian Election Study
Ben was joined by Sarah Cameron from Griffith University, to discuss the results of the 2025 Australian Election Study, including Peter Dutton’s unpopularity, foreign policy, voter dealignmen…
www.tallyroom.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Today's podcast is with Sarah Cameron about the 2025 Australian Election Study. We discuss generational and gender splits, Peter Dutton's (lack of) popularity, changing attitudes to the USA and voter dealignment.
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
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Brave policy can be great politics.
With brave climate leadership, Anthony Albanese could leave a lasting legacy similar to Bob Hawke with Medicare and Paul Keating with compulsory superannuation, says former South Australian Premier Mike Rann. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/3JJCass
With brave climate leadership, Anthony Albanese could leave a lasting legacy similar to Bob Hawke with Medicare and Paul Keating with compulsory superannuation, says former South Australian Premier Mike Rann. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/3JJCass
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Brave policy can be great politics.
With brave climate leadership, Anthony Albanese could leave a lasting legacy similar to Bob Hawke with Medicare and Paul Keating with compulsory superannuation, says former South Australian Premier Mike Rann. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/3JJCass
With brave climate leadership, Anthony Albanese could leave a lasting legacy similar to Bob Hawke with Medicare and Paul Keating with compulsory superannuation, says former South Australian Premier Mike Rann. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/3JJCass
.Pol.is – for finding out what the people want (their will).
Governments govern for the people. But how do MPs and the people know what the people (collectively) want? Pol.is for finding out.
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
Governments govern for the people. But how do MPs and the people know what the people (collectively) want? Pol.is for finding out.
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
.Pol.is – for finding out what the people want (their will).
Governments govern for the people. But how do MPs and the people know what the people (collectively) want? Pol.is for finding out.
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
Governments govern for the people. But how do MPs and the people know what the people (collectively) want? Pol.is for finding out.
Find out more and register at canberra-alliance.org.au/event/
AI helping plan political change.
A conversation. 70minute video.
Building a partnership with a machine.
#auspol #democracy #ai
canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
A conversation. 70minute video.
Building a partnership with a machine.
#auspol #democracy #ai
canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
AI helping plan political change.
A conversation. 70minute video.
Building a partnership with a machine.
#auspol #democracy #ai
canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
A conversation. 70minute video.
Building a partnership with a machine.
#auspol #democracy #ai
canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
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We covered a lot in this one. Population movements, country v city, marginal seat campaigns, and the extremely cooked old Senate system.
The podcast is back for a short run, and today's podcast is about the history of previous parliamentary expansions, in 1948 and 1983, with historians Frank Bongiorno and @cmonnox.bsky.social www.tallyroom.com.au/63628 #auspol
Podcast #156: History of a bigger parliament
Ben was joined by Frank Bongiorno and Chris Monnox to discuss the history of Australia’s federal parliament being expanded, in 1949 and 1984. We discuss the motivations for these changes, the…
www.tallyroom.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We covered a lot in this one. Population movements, country v city, marginal seat campaigns, and the extremely cooked old Senate system.
In these times of more fluid parliaments, maybe we could scrap the idea of Oppositions altogether. Maybe every MP could be a parliamentarian(!) in a unity government. Governing for the benefit of the nation. #democracy #auspol
As the number of votes for major parties continues to slide, and ‘the coalition’ find it harder to agree what to coalesce around, the legal and rhetorical meaning of ‘the opposition’ is evolving rapidly…great piece by @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
If the Opposition is not the alternative government, what is the point of it?
With Victoria on its third Oppostion Leader in a year, and speculation about pressure on the Federal and NSW Liberals, we're left wondering: what makes an Opposition Government?
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
In these times of more fluid parliaments, maybe we could scrap the idea of Oppositions altogether. Maybe every MP could be a parliamentarian(!) in a unity government. Governing for the benefit of the nation. #democracy #auspol
Is it that 'democracies' (whatever they are) are weak? Or is it that commercial entities of the petrochemical-financial-military-industrial complex have captured governments who are doing their bidding?
COP is compromised.
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Is it that 'democracies' (whatever they are) are weak? Or is it that commercial entities of the petrochemical-financial-military-industrial complex have captured governments who are doing their bidding?
Young people are disenchanted with how politics is happening. The danger of burning it down before building the alternative ... that's boring.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Burn it all down movements
When a 34-year-old democratic socialist defeats a political dynasty in the nation's largest city, we're witnessing more than another electoral upset.
johnmenadue.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Young people are disenchanted with how politics is happening. The danger of burning it down before building the alternative ... that's boring.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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There's a common misconception that preferences explain the thumping majority Labor won at this year's election.
Not true -- as @skyelark.bsky.social explains in @thepointau.bsky.social fact check
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
Not true -- as @skyelark.bsky.social explains in @thepointau.bsky.social fact check
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
Factcheck: Does Labor owe its parliamentary majority to preferential voting?
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
There's a common misconception that preferences explain the thumping majority Labor won at this year's election.
Not true -- as @skyelark.bsky.social explains in @thepointau.bsky.social fact check
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
Not true -- as @skyelark.bsky.social explains in @thepointau.bsky.social fact check
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
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How democracy has changed since 1975, in six charts:
1/ The crossbench has grown from 3 in the Senate to 20 in the Senate and 13 in the House, making blocking supply much more difficult than it was for Malcolm Fraser.
1/ The crossbench has grown from 3 in the Senate to 20 in the Senate and 13 in the House, making blocking supply much more difficult than it was for Malcolm Fraser.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
How democracy has changed since 1975, in six charts:
1/ The crossbench has grown from 3 in the Senate to 20 in the Senate and 13 in the House, making blocking supply much more difficult than it was for Malcolm Fraser.
1/ The crossbench has grown from 3 in the Senate to 20 in the Senate and 13 in the House, making blocking supply much more difficult than it was for Malcolm Fraser.
Agree. Transparency about who is running this is very important for knowing if to engage.
The site is very confusing a apparently i am voting when I am not. I can’t seem to find the full details of the site argument.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Agree. Transparency about who is running this is very important for knowing if to engage.
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Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975.
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
How Australian democracy has changed since 1975, in six charts
50 years on from the Dismissal, how has Australian democracy changed? Here are six ways that Australian politics looks very different to when Gough Whitlam was PM in November 1975.
thepoint.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975.
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Basic psychology in this book; the best way to get someone to do something is get them to do it; then the brain rationalises why they did it. Same with good #democratic people's #participation in #government. #auspol.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
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 ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Basic psychology in this book; the best way to get someone to do something is get them to do it; then the brain rationalises why they did it. Same with good #democratic people's #participation in #government. #auspol.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
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Exactly what Peter said
Like why would the bbc need to ‘balance’ its cover of the US in this way?
When the BBC covers, say, Xi critically should it also run a programme dedicated to the CCP’s achievements?
When the BBC covers, say, Xi critically should it also run a programme dedicated to the CCP’s achievements?
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Exactly what Peter said
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New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
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 ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
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An era calling for courage over caution
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
An era calling for courage over caution