Seven Golden Stars

Draft revision — 23 August 2026. Every factual claim below has been checked against the primary source documents. The Segal Plan is not unusual for its length. Australia’s Plan to Combat Antisemitismruns to 20 pages. Germany’s national strategy runs to 52, the United States’ NationalStrategy to 60, and Austria’s to 233. Producing a national antisemitism … Read more

Every layer of a space settlement discussed so far — individual living cells, shared infrastructure, resource rights, occupational entitlement — has been engineered around a fixed, deliberately short life cycle: build, use, dissolve, rebuild. That rhythm is the whole point of the design, the thing that lets a settlement avoid the compounding, unbounded claims that … Read more

Every jubilee mechanism surveyed on Earth shares a structure that, looking back, was really a workaround. Land can’t be rebuilt, so the reset has to fall on the claim instead — a fixed calendar date on which rights change hands, negotiated, resisted, occasionally captured, but always, underneath it, a single moment everyone has to agree … Read more

Every land tenure system surveyed on Earth shares one assumption so basic it’s easy not to notice it at all: the asset persists, and only the claim on it needs to be periodically bounded. Leviticus 25 doesn’t reset the land — it resets who has a claim to farm it. Swiss Baurecht doesn’t rebuild the … Read more

Every society that allows credit or land tenure to exist runs into the same structural fact eventually: claims compound faster than the real activity underneath them can sustain, and something eventually has to give. What differs, case to case, era to era, is whether “something has to give” arrives as a designed, scheduled event that … Read more

There is a map most of us carry around without examining it. On one end sits communism: the state owns everything, and the individual owns nothing. On the other end sits capitalism, and at its purest, freehold ownership: the individual owns everything, outright and forever, and the state has no claim on it at all. … Read more

A reference list on the drafting history behind Australia’s recent hate-speech and hate-crime legislation, and a specific legal shift worth scrutinising: the move from criminalising threats of violence to criminalising presumed hatred, increasingly carrying comparable penalties. The shift in one sentence Commonwealth and NSW law both began, in 2024, by criminalising threats — conduct with … Read more

The submission window closes today, 14 June 2026. This post introduces the six submissions made by this author to the Royal Commission, in the order they were lodged. Between March and June 2026, I made six submissions to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. A fifth submission was lodged and subsequently withdrawn prior … Read more

Submitted to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, June 2026 The Bondi attack was carried out by individuals. The Holocaust was carried out by a state. That distinction is the foundation of this submission. And it is the distinction that the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion appears, in its interim report … Read more

There was a time when every serious participant in Australian political life understood something so basic it barely needed stating. The state is more powerful than the individual. That asymmetry is the primary political problem that democratic government exists to manage. It sounds obvious. It used to be. Two Traditions, One Foundation Australian politics was … Read more