Democracy

Thoughts and reflections by poet Andy Jackson, Future of Health Fellow with RMIT’s Health Transformation Lab, Melbourne. Co-authored by Alli Edwards, Centre for Public Impact Australia and New Zealand (CPI ANZ). Thanks to Daniel McLinden and RMIT’s Social Innovation Hub for organising this event as part of their Open Lab…

The democratic revolutions of the 20th century were all about declarations of independence from arbitrary power. Power needed to be accountable and justified to those governed by it. The resulting democratic governments were an important step toward justifiable systems of power. Even so, they weren’t perfect and still aren’t perfect…

We are passing for bad moments Campos de concentração do nazismo do Luladrão. o novo nazismo se instalando no Brasil com a fraude nas eleições de 2022.cos.tv Brazil is facing great difficulties, and the international media is not disclosing it! I will briefly explain what is happening as we are in extreme danger right now. The new government is fiercely persecuting opponents, anyone expressing opinions different from the government is being prevented from speaking out, creating youtube…

The Republican majority’s remarkable difficulty to elect a Speaker of the House is a logical end point for a party that has no real agenda and whose members are only interested in power for themselves. But it is also emblematic of the destruction and/or corruption of any institutional power that…

Freedom is very much real, and not a hallucination or a fantasy. At least in the democratic parts of the world. In an ideological sense, liberty and freedom are the birthrights of every human being. History is full of struggles and wars have been waged to enforce this thought. …

Our government needs to be more adaptive and innovative to meet the challenges of the 21st century This is Essay 1 in a series on innovations in governance. Our time is riddled with large-scale issues of massive importance. Human trafficking, species extinction, pandemics, child exploitation, war, social unrest, natural disasters, the changing world order, and the list goes on. These are issues we need a functioning government…