Welcome to Australia's first national community-based futures planning process

In the 2022 federal election, the Australian Better Futures Commitment Index sheds light on the commitment of major parties to our future.

Securing decent and open institutional changes in our democracy that are necessary to bed down reforms for the longer term should be the...

In this election Australians are not being offered the future they want. They will have to build their preferred future by other means.

With an election upon us, let’s remember an event in 1911 that brought together Australian and New Zealand women calling for a better world.

In the lead-up to the federal election, Australians can get a grip on the truth with the new Australia Together National Wellbeing Index.

The major parties will not offer big agendas in this year's federal election. But Australians can start to build the agenda they want.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart invites us all to walk with Indigenous Australians towards a better future. Let’s say Yes.

The Paris Agreement has a potentially fatal flaw. There is no carbon budget. This essential element must be included before it's too late.

COP26 is a make or break moment for climate change. With fair sharing of a carbon budget we can still limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.

At COP26 we can stop global heating above 1.5 degrees if we adopt a new negotiating framework based on capping total emission tonnages.

Militarism may well become the norm in Australia unless we use National Integrated Planning & Reporting to engineer a civil revival.

Australians can insert an easy extra step into our existing sequence of democracy to increase the efficiency of our participation in it.

In 2017, the Morrison Government started a big fight with big tech, weighing in entirely on the side of news media businesses,...

Australian Community Futures Planning: Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity in Australia. Let's save democracy from Murdoch

Australia's future economic losses for its current climate change policies will make it impossible to repay our Covid-19 debt.

The ACCC's News Media Bargaining Code is a disaster for democracy. Read how here.

Australia is at a critical turning point in its history. Depending on the paths we choose in 2020, the turns we take and their timing, we...

How can Australia prevent climate change and mitigate its impacts? An essential part of the solution is to start early – well ahead of...

Imagine you are building a long term plan for Australia. How do you develop a Vision? In this extract from my recent book: By 2050:...