An Australian flag that recognises the First Nations
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