Housing is a human right. So how do we reMAKE our housing system, and make our society more equal? Rachel Hay puts a personal and generational struggle into the context of some big picture solutions and reforms for our future.
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How do we transform our economic system to value what we value? Part three in our series on economic systems change explores the role of government and a few key policies that would change how we live and work.
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Australia reMADE supported the First Nations’ Voice to Parliament. Yet we know it was but one pathway, not the only one, for Voice, Treaty and Truth. The First Peoples of Australia extended a generous invitation, and it was rejected. But it is still possible for all of us who want to receive that invitation, to answer back, with our own Yes. Let us be the change we wish to see.
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On Oct 14, our country has a critically important decision to make: whether to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament in our Constitution. As we reflect on this question, we go back to the Vision for an Australia reMADE and its wisdom, words that came from conversations with hundreds of Australians from different walks of life.
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What does an economy for the people even look like? How is that even possible, and what are some of the systemic changes that get us there? In part 2, we take a bird’s eye view of the landmarks on the road to wellbeing.
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We can’t keep acting like the economy operates ‘over here’ and the issues we care about are ‘over there’. It’s time to get as confident talking about and working on economic change as we are talking about and working on climate change — so we can reMAKE an economy in service of life itself.
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After the success of Alone Australia, I’ve had a great idea for a new reality TV show.
It’s called “Alone Australian” and we get to watch ten plucky people dropped, completely alone, into the middle of a housing crisis and rely only on their wits and a dodgy internet connection to access the services they need to survive.
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One of the major critiques of politics and politicians is the short-term nature of the election cycle and the short term nature of political visions and decisions. There are a lot of different ways to address this — from banning corporate donations, to extending the electoral cycle, to increasing lobbyist transparency, etc.
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What would it take to make the Vision for an Australia reMADE our new normal? Before the pandemic, under a Morrison Government, Australia reMADE convened a small gathering of leaders to have a crack at this very big question.
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A functional public service with integrity has to be about more than policing personal power and profit. What do we want from our public service, and how can we reclaim it as something for all of us?
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There is plenty of evidence that offering a greater vision of what you’re for and talking about solutions is highly effective. But it takes practice, and the deliberate choice to shift our focus again and again from, ‘how do we stop what’s wrong’, to, ‘how do we build what’s right?’…
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Hope is not something you have it is something you do…
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