Borders, Frontiers and Boundaries - an Australian prespective
Submitted by Steve Irons on Fri, 13/03/2020 - 2:44pm
Submitted by Steve Irons on Fri, 13/03/2020 - 2:44pm
Submitted by Steve Irons on Sun, 01/12/2019 - 12:28pm
Recent discussions on the inability of the Australian governments to address climate emergency, bushfire calamity and the death of river systems are throwing up useful concepts that need to be taken seriously at all levels of nationhood, federal, state, local and traditional.
Here's a couple that get things going:
Submitted by Steve Irons on Tue, 06/08/2019 - 12:30pm
A recent address by the first Aboriginal minister for Aboriginal Australians to the National Press Club on possibly finding "common ground" for constutional reform was momentus. It got a lot of people thinking about new ideas, for the first time.
The following notes of "possible constitutional change" attempt to raise ideas & assist in the possibilities of broader debate, not to influence the outcome.
It is prepared in response to:
Submitted by Steve Irons on Tue, 23/07/2019 - 1:10pm
This is the greatest look at the boundaries of the Great Artesian Basin we've seen in common public availability to date thanks to NT government & @abcnews
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/great-artesian-map/6833130
Submitted by Steve Irons on Thu, 18/07/2019 - 7:22pm
Submitted by Steve Irons on Mon, 08/07/2019 - 9:29pm
Submitted by Steve Irons on Tue, 09/04/2019 - 3:38pm
Climate Action Hobart https://www.facebook.com/ClimateActionHobart/
Climate Action Launceston https://www.facebook.com/groups/331326137531075/
Climate Action Hobart http://www.climateactionhobart.org/
Submitted by Steve Irons on Fri, 22/03/2019 - 3:02pm
This blog will continue to grow, at least until after the next election:
(Independents & meaningful cross-benchers)
ACT Senate https://www.anthonypesec.com.au/ @AnthonyPesec
Submitted by jrobens on Sun, 19/08/2018 - 9:49am
The Commonwealth, through the ACCC, have highlighted the fact that (a) greater consumer power and (b) lower marginal cost of supply are two ways of reducing electricity costs to consumers. I'm proposing that (c) consumer trading in electricity is an enabler for greater competition in both the electricity supply markets and the electricity retail markets.
Submitted by Matthew Mitchell on Fri, 04/05/2018 - 4:52pm
This is a proposal for community decision making bodies based on FOWTOR regions. One could argue that the current division of Australia into states and territories was really an accident of history, and is not an ideal division of authority. The recent problems with water flows down the Murray, and the difficulty of getting state agreements on water use, highlights at least one problem with the current state/territory divisions.
What I am proposing is 'citizen parliaments' for each FOWTOR region.