Tim Dunlop

Melbourne

Writer at The Future of Everything

Writer living in Melbourne. https://t.co/1Dvm1g2tpN

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The natural party of government

1 week ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

Bravo TD, well written, well argued. Just 2 things: 1. 'and where the ability of a hostile media to sway the electorate has been shown in election after election at state and federal level to have evaporated completely, and what do we get?'That may well be the case - but does NewsCorp still dictate policy to Labor? Will wait & see if the Aug 2022 meeting of L. Murodoch + Albanese, Wong, Marles takes place. 2.
The natural party of government

1 week ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

If only I could see a landscape as it is when I am not there. —Simon WeilI once went on a ballon ride, on a cold, windy Canberra morning, beginning before dawn, and the incredible thing is that once you are up in the air and being blown by the wind you don’t feel the wind anymore because you are travelling at its speed. The experience is as comforting as it is deceptive.
Comments - Seen and heard - by Tim Dunlop

1 week ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

I agree. I haven't read through all the Robodebt RC recommendations, but it seems there's still a significant risk of something like that happening again. Especially whilst the key players from the last one remain upunished. It was a peculiarly 'looking over you shoulder' time in DSS when Morrison wsa minister. This expanded to the whole APS when he became PM. The government did nothing about corruption, and was on the verge of making most climate change aviodance the individual's responsibility.
Seen and heard

1 week ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

When the vectors balance in stasis, when the distances cancel out, when the needle returns to the originary perfection of zero — then, with recollection and anticipation yielding to what surrounds us, we will have found a centre of our universe at last beyond compare. The unveiling of heaven while in hell. The dream inseparable from the suffering which gave it life. Know this once, and there is nothing left to know. —Louise MichelI haven’t done a deep-dive compilation post in a while, so here goes.
Coalition of the unwilling

2 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

The word that was missing the dot on the 'i' was incompetence. This is the campaign where the Liberal Party aimed for the suburbs with flawed policies while seeking to regain the cities on entitlement - and lost both. The split in the Coalition makes sense now in that the National Party has a base (but represent them poorly) but the Liberals don't.
Coalition of the unwilling

2 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

I don’t think we really understand how the Australian political landscape is changing, but the dissolution of the Coalition—with the National Party officially splitting from the Liberals—is our latest reminder that we need to start thinking about our politics differently. Here’s a few quick thoughts on what ails us. Or, rather, them.
Didn't I read somewhere that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel?

2 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

"“We see there is a role for the state in improving people’s lives, but we also very much believe in markets, and that markets are a democratic mechanism as well. I believe in the private sector being the key driver of growth, but the public sector should step in where there is market failure.”"Privatise the profits and socialise the losses. As for 'patriotic progressivism' I chocked on reading that. Just another move to try to take over ground from the flag wavers in the Coalition.
Didn't I read somewhere that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel?

2 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

And all your left-handed kissesWere just prelude to anotherPrelude to your backhanded love song, babyYou got me writing love songs—Andrew Bird (with Fiona Apple)Even allowing for the fact—universally acknowledged—that Anthony Albanese is the greatest political mind of his generation, I was a bit surprised to read that our recently reinstalled uber PM has a new slogan. Since when do we start electoral terms with catchphrases?
Think like a citizen

3 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

TD: An eager readership waits with much anticipation (with acknowledgements to Rocky Horror PS etc)'Our federal election was allegedly a rejection of such exhaustion, of Trumpism, and I hope that is true'. Much emphasis on the 'allegedly'. I read an article in the SMH by Crowe & Sakkal just before with headline: 'After three years, Albanese has a new slogan. Here’s what ‘progressive patriotism’ means'. I thought 'WT*, 'patriot', why use that term, it smacks so much of the US.
Think like a citizen

3 weeks ago | tdunlop.substack.com | Tim Dunlop

I’ve been paying attention to politics since Whitlam and the thing I’m only just coming to terms with is that no election ever settles anything. No landslide is big enough to stop the river flowing and no result is ever so final that all arguments are settled. This is a good thing, because the nature of democracy should be that it is responsive to the indivisible diversity of a self-governing people and nothing should ever be set in stone.

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timdunlop @timdunlop

13 Feb 25

I would argue Australia has the best-functioning democratic system in the world at the moment, so it is a nice irony that its two biggest parties are working to undermine it. https://t.co/DO9dn40xuz

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2 Dec 24

RT @dginnivan: https://t.co/SCyIq58KcI.

timdunlop @timdunlop

27 Nov 24

Semi-ongoing reminder that BlueSk is working well and is proving a better experience than here. If you’ve been hesitating for fear of losing connections, you will be pleasantly surprised. Give it a go and make Elon cry.