2005

51312

Compulsory vs Voluntary Voting

30067

Separation of Powers and Parliamentary Systems

13484

Unprogressive Australian Tax Brackets

6840

Goulburn's Challenge

6703

Bill of Rights, ver 0.2

5978

Aboriginal Charter of Rights

5928

Reduce Speeding Fines in Queensland

5812

Free Trade vs Protectionists

5720

Modernising the NSW Flag

5002

Percy Spender and the Pacific Pact

3596

SAS Regiment Back To Afghanistan

3482

Health Expenditure as % GDP

3306

Government Expenditures and Taxation Levels

3163

When America Sneezes

3148

Vinegar Hill and the Rum Rebellion

3027

Government Response To Large-scale Emergencies

2988

Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Unicameral Parliament

2922

Pollution and Stationary Energy

2614

Focusing Australian Policy On Afghanistan

2570

Political Rationalism

2482

Tax Bracket Creep

2474

Pandemic Pandemonia

2456

An Introduction to the Honorary President

2274

A Bill For The Eureka Flag

2250

The Natural Party of Government

2181

Do We Need a 2005 Defence White Paper?

2177

An Australian Navy For Decentralised Warfare

2066

The Expensive Dud

2010

The Initial Schism Between Liberal and Labor

1950

Free trade and nationalism

1897

Indonesian Oil Subsidies

1812

Tapping the Wisdom of the People

1793

Design Patterns: Social Organization

1768

The Morality in the Defence Act 1903

1703

Liberal Groupers

1698

Open Source Warfare and the Networked Republic

1672

NSW Law Enforcement Amendment

1658

Government Design Patterns - Paymaster

1642

The Sad Tale of Latham and the problem of selling the 'Third Way'

1630

Edge Effects: Frontier Induced Cohesion

1617

The Australian Defence Force and Australian Republican Doctrine

1572

Sedition, or How I Learned to Love Howard's Terrorising Legislation

1555

The Economic Rise of Many-to-Many Systems and Their Political Ramifications

1507

Bottom-up user communities.

1496

Australian Power Projection

1496

Liberal Secularism is the Answer to Terrorism

1472

Early Conflicts of Foreign Policy

1470

Ratification, Sortition and Crowd Wisdom

1460

The Amputated Chicken

1455

This Abetz Fella

1445

Unchecked Executive Power

1440

Constantly Increasing Tax as Percent of GDP

1438

Water Out Y'ass

1427

Offsetting the Power of Incumbency

1410

War and Peace and War and Australia

1384

Professional Australians

1367

Focus on Queensland

1366

Defending the MCG From Terrorism

1347

Can The Cockroaches Survive a Nuclear Option?

1347

A Bill of Rights For Our Federal and State Constitutions

1334

The Legislative Dragway at Parliament

1323

The Home Equity ATM Machine

1317

Australian Republican Identity Politics

1285

What Is It Good For

1284

1282

Migration Amendment (Detention Arrangements) Bill 2005

1281

The Robson Rotation

1278

The Australian Democrats

1276

Packet Sniffing Ratifiers

1265

US Treasury Debt

1254

Maori Seats and The Treaty of Waitingi

1252

Kokoda Foundation

1242

John Boston's Pig

1235

His-story becomes Di-verse

1231

The Path To Equity

1221

Mass Media a Reflection of its Audience

1215

More Petrol, More Petrol, More Petrol

1213

The Latham Diaries: a critical dissection

1193

The Cost Of Opposition

1191

One Way Surveillance Is A Mark Of Tyranny

1179

We'll also put a little pi symbol at the bottom of government websites

1178

The Outdated Image of Nationalism

1171

Sound And Honest Finance

1159

Dreadful, Positively Painful

1153

Three Cheers For Liberty; The Republican Riots of 1887

1148

Comparing the States Economically

1130

Unitary Thinking And Decentralised Networks

1128

The Anti-Vaccination Leagues

1128

Liberty and Fallibility

1123

Arendt on Equality

1114

Howard's Frasernomics

1110

More Anti-Federalism

1101

Steele Hall and the Liberal Movement

1092

Munir Said Thalib

1086

Without The Trappings Of Court

1081

John Singleton Reads South Sea Republic

1072

Tojo Never Made It To Louisiana

1064

P2P Loans For Third World Entrepreneurs

1062

WW1 Servicemen; In Their Own Words

1062

Toward The Better Country

1061

New Defence Report Coming Out Next Week

1059

Defending Federalism

1058

Rule of Thumbscrew

1054

Neo-Latte-Conservativism

1051

The Moving Multi-ethnic Faultline

1040

1039

Two-fer on Petrol Taxes

1038

Australian Citizen Bill

1035

Secret Laws in Democracy

1029

Government Design Patterns - Party

1026

Dont Taunt The Shadow State

1023

While Australia Is Adding New Laws

1022

Corruption Perception Index

1013

The Strength of the Indonesian People

1011

Treaty of Amity and Co-operation Again

1007

Leadership and Electoral Popularity

1007

A Day Which Will Live In Infamy

1006

Palmer's Ozpolitics Political Test

1004

Ukraine's Accidental Park

999

The Electoral Act

998

The Citizen Bill and the Australian Diaspora

997

Climate Change and Threats To Global Security

996

Proof That Terrorism Remains a Foreign Policy Issue

991

Book Launch: Patterns of Liberty

984

Climate Change Refugees

984

Replacing the Higher School Certificate with an Arts Degree

982

Seperation of Powers or Executive Authority?

980

Media Exhaustion

979

A Government Policy To Encourage Australian Culture

978

The Individualist Streak in Australian Republicanism

976

Flash-Mobs Are The New Public Intellectuals

976

George Grey and the Elected Governor General

969

Political Retribution

969

Three Groans For Sedition

964

Announcing www.newcopia.com

954

952

Statistics on Federal and State Elections

950

Tail Economics Meets Political Activism

949

John Robb on the French Riots

939

938

Current Account Statistics

936

Australian Republicanism: A Reader

933

Emerson's Tax Reform

930

John Carpenter's Next Movie

925

A Quirky Christmas

918

(Citizen) Flags Amendment Bill 2005

918

The $100 Tablet Of Doom

916

Why It Will Have To Be A Disruptive Technology

916

Historical Documents from DFAT

916

The Fallacy of the GAPF doctrine

916

915

Planetary Republicanism

913

Measure For Measure

911

Torture Is Incompatible With Republicanism

910

We Recorded a TV Pilot Yesterday

905

Macroscale Efficiency

904

Appears To Be Growing Steadily

901

A Rule For Them, And A Rule For Us

898

Trusting Government

892

Collective Creation of The Iraqi Constitution

892

Ratification and Deliberation Polls

890

889

888

So Apparently the BBC Is the One Thinking Of The Children

887

883

Why the Honorary President is above Politics

879

875

Nationalistic Jointery

874

The crippling cost to the Government.

871

870

Websites of Regional Newspapers

869

Australian Mass Media Cross-over

867

Interference from above

867

Interesting New Website

855

Destroying the Middle Man

853

There is a great story hidden in this article

852

The Lost Word In Australian Politics

846

As Good As Your Google

842

Emailing Politicians

841

Costello is Prime Minister Material

837

833

829

Insidious and Pernicious Statism

824

Don't Buy Microsoft Stock

823

Market Interfering With Political Outcomes

820

Four More Years

818

Katrina And The Federal Response

816

Market forces in Education fixing the Science vs Faith debate?

813

The Australian Senate

812

To Be President

804

Functional Systems From Emergant Properties

792

The Body Politic

783

Userspace Innovation

780

Tribalism: The New Unpublic Good

776

US Federal Regulation D

772

Multiculturalism Drinking Game

767

Another Step For Indonesia

752

Co-operatives are the future

750

A Worthy Enterprise?

748

Consumer Sentiment Index

748

Organisational Free Energy

733

The Professional Australian: Peter Costello

728

Forced Evacuations

727

HOWTO: Offset the Power of Incumbency

726

Deregulating National Symbolism

722

IR Legislation Advertising

721

The International Electoral Commission

717

Murdoch and Packer meet Horse and Buggy

711

Unfit At Any Speed

710

Are Bloggers Journalists?

710

Islam is Compatible With Democracy

707

I am not a fan of the AFP

703

Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk

696

Threats To Power

694

Kim Beazley Endorses Cam's Afghanistan Policy

692

The Knowledge Economy

692

Nothing redefines our freedom

687

The Down Comforter of Populist Government

685

Steam Powered Democracy

685

Broadcasting To The Echo Chamber

683

Our Self-publishing Forbears

682

Consumption to Interaction

681

Constitutional Preamble

675

Qld Hansard and Government Patterns

674

ADF To Recruit in South Pacific?

670

Anarchy and Bombs

669

The Media As Players

650

Who Wants To Be Popular?

645

Incumbency Issue Again, NSW Legislation

632

Political Cash Donations in Australia and NSW

630

The ties that bind

629

Book Launch: South Sea Republic Volume One

618

Economic Lessons Distilled

616

The Republican Debate Revived?

598

In East Australia I Was Born

591

How To Afford To Live In Sydney

586

Senate Multiculturalism Debate

579

What Is The Government Going To Do About It?

574

Australian Minorities Will Be Discriminated Against

536

The Importance Of No In A Healthy Democracy

527

Education and Investment Cycles

524

In Other News, There is a Whitsunday Electorate

521

Focus on Victoria

518

Jobholders and Labourers make the Economy a Public Issue

509

Senate Voting System Comparison

507

TAZ - Temporary Autonomous Zone

499

The Legal System is not a Value

496

473

Talkback Radio Journalism In Print

471

Prediction Markets

466

Toowoomba Water Supplies

463

Indefinite Detention

450

Constitution of the Australian Democrats

444

Hung Juries - Problem or Beat up?

441

Oh No! Not the (Buick) Kingswood

438

What century would you prefer then? The Sixteenth, perhaps?

416

Copyright Fair Use Issues Paper

411

Howto: Getting Elected When In Opposition

406

Australian Bill of Rights

403

Flash-Advocacy Groups

398

The Watched Society

375

Lobbying Government

372

op-ed defending federalism

356

Meta: Request for traceroute output

352

President Cam's Speech of September 12th, 2001

348

Senators Want ISPs To Be Responsible For Filtering Content

341

This Meme Must Die

340

Meta : And Then There Were Five

337

And Be One People

333

Freedom And Independence, 1854

326

Labour Movement

326

Black Jefferson Weeping

326

Meanwhile Out West

324

We Are All The Same

322

The Issue of Guest Blogging

320

Alienation and Direct Democracy

315

The Problem Of Rights

312

Politically Aware == Partisan. WTF?

307

307

Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters

305

Good News On Telstra

305

Think of the Children Defence

303

Interesting new interpretation

300

Collectivity Posts

297

The Coming Event

297

Announcing The Rafferty's Rules Section

296

Microchips Like Flared Trousers

295

Ask SSR: Why is ICAC a corporation?

291

Only criminals reject tyranny

282

273

Vampires Don't Like Bay Windows On Their Crypts