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Over the past decade just 13 of the largest essential services companies have extracted over $370 billion dollars in underlying profits from Australians. The real number is much larger. Read about the $3,800 Household Corporate Profit Bill firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/the-3800-h...

In a recent opinion piece www.afr.com/politics/fed..., Sinclair Davidson rages against censorship in the proposed Digital Duty of Care legislation. But he completely fails to engage with the idea of algorithmic choice as a solution. Our reply: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/duty-of-ch...

A great campaign from young Australians sick of algorithms serving up hateful content: www.teachusconsent.com/fix-our-feeds. We’ve argued before that algorithmic choice needs to be regulated to stop big tech control over what you see online: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

Words matter. What happens when reactionary politicians and media reframes reasonable policy as radical? Democracy and society suffers. Read our latest on why progressive parties and voters need to change the language of debate: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/words-matter

Yes, Australian voters are sick of big money influence on our politicians and elections. It’s time for real reform of electoral funding models. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Read: Gina Nation - How billionaire influence captured Australian politics: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/gina-nation

Gas companies cannot be expected to do the right thing. They must be forced to contribute to environmental funds that hold enough money to clean up their mess when they decide it’s no longer profitable enough and just wind up the company. This happens far too often: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Gina Nation: How to repair democracy and remove the influence of billionaire funding in Australia's election funding: open.substack.com/pub/firstpri...

Finance journalism is broken. Markets “hit records” as more people losing jobs means borrowing money against investments will be cheaper. Stop this nonsense - it only helps the investment class and has negative impact on everyone else. Structural unemployment and poverty is making us all less safe.

When a billionaire says “We should give away Australian resources” to another billionaire - what part of that sounds like good policy? It promotes blantant theft of resources. Don’t vote against Australia’s best interests. Billionaires and corporations are not on the side of citizens.

When the basics are taken care of the best things in life are free. That's our argument for pursuing both Universal Basic Income, underpinned by Universal Basic services. Read our latest on why growing beyond an adversarial society is true abundance firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/beyond-sur...

Would you like to take control of your social feeds, and choose your social media algorithm from a marketplace of providers? So would we. In fact we'd love to see openness, transparency and choice as core principles for ALL recommender systems: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

This week, we explore the gulf between the rhetoric of pronatalism and the 'demographic crisis' from conservative pundits vs. the reality: the lack of investment in policies that actually make the choice to have children and rear families attainable for more people. open.substack.com/pub/firstpri...

This week we can expect the benefits of renewables driving down prices in wholesale electricity markets to be wiped out by the war in Iran. Expect huge spikes in the price of gas, even though it’s extracted and used here, nowhere near the conflict. We need a domestic reserve policy immediately

We're measuring the wrong things - GDP and the market driving policy. It's time for a new metric - The Living Standard that takes into account the non-negotiables for a thriving society. Let us know what inputs we should be tracking in the comments! firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

The Fealty Problem: Who actually owns your representative? New thinking about political transparency and allegiances to restore democracy. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/firstpri...

The Great Schooling Divide: Our latest thinking on funding public education from a first principles perspective: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The cost of electricity has become modern day extortion, with badly designed market dynamics driving prices up. It's time to address energy markets from a first principles perspective. The Energy Extortion - Our latest thinking. open.substack.com/pub/firstpri...

Our latest thoughts about housing and the adverse policies that affect affordability, stability and security. firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/the-housin...

What would happen if we went from paying for health consultations to a health subscription? Our argument for the death of the billable minute and new outcomes-based partnerships in health care: firstprinciplespolicy.substack.com/p/the-death-...