Steve Irons's blog

What's with the Twitter feeds?

Submitted by Steve Irons on Thu, 06/12/2012 - 1:11pm

Social media is a very powerful construct. When you go on to Twitter, for example, you can construct any 'virtual world' that you fancy, and you can live in that world for as little or as long as you want. And you find that in that particular world that you construct, there are many other players already playing in that world, some heavily there, whilst there are others, also important, who drop in occasionally, and have their little say, or keep an eye on what you are up to, and add value at key moments.

Q&A on Statehood & Constitutional Change

Submitted by Steve Irons on Sat, 01/12/2012 - 11:26pm

Ask a question OR provide your own Question & Answer(s) on the matters of 'Statehood' and/or 'Constitutional Change' in Australia, leading up to, and at the moment of, Australia becoming a republic.

Super-state? What's that?

Submitted by Steve Irons on Sat, 17/11/2012 - 8:26pm

The 'Super-State' is a permanent grouping of States introduced into the Senate where more than one State needs to act in concert, for proper governance or for real changes to occur. This could arise because of the need to recognise a 'place' or an 'issue' important to the future of Australia.

Note: There are State issues or places as important (or maybe even more important) as the issues and places recognised by the establishment of these 'Super-States', but, because they can be handled by one State alone, do not require Super-State recognition.

Where did the BloggerMe map come from?

Submitted by Steve Irons on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 1:35am

Early days in the Rudd government

Why did you call it BloggerMe?

Submitted by Steve Irons on Sat, 10/11/2012 - 8:37pm

Australians understand why we have called the site "Blogger Me!"

We have been told since federation that the Australian constitution can never be changed because of the power of the States in the modification of the constitution. We have been told since federation that a change to the constitution, that needs bi-partisan support and a majority in every State, needs to be minimalist or it just won't get passed.