🇦🇺 Australia 2.0

Dates when site content changed - topic prose, snapshot numbers, new sections or documents. Not a git history; a reader-facing log of what moved.

1. 2026-04-27 v0.10 Tobacco excise and gambling-revenue dependence addressed end-to-end - constitutional anchor in Foundational Values, NZ/Sweden harm-reduction line on tobacco, WA-model pokies reform on gambling.
   • Added a new Public Reason in Sin Taxes & Vice Markets section to Foundational Values: an operative-preamble rule that no level of government may organise its fiscal base on the cumulative losses or addictions of its citizens, periodic IFO review of every sin tax against measurable harm-reduction outcomes, and structural separation of vice-market regulators from the Treasuries that receive the tax.
   • Added a Cap Excise, Restore Harm Reduction section to Healthcare & Welfare: cap and progressively roll back tobacco excise to the harm-reduction-effective level under an annual published IFO review; legalise pharmacy-grade adult nicotine vapes and Swedish-style snus with age-gating and ad rules in line with tobacco; reframe illicit trade as serious-and-organised crime rather than a customs failure; truthful labelling, ad bans, and no-sale-to-minors all stay.
   • Added a WA-Model Pokies Reform & Vice-Free Revenue section to Economics & Taxation: confine pokies to a single licensed casino per state on a 10-year transition, sever state revenue dependence by routing replacement revenue through the consumption-tax share already proposed under Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, structurally separate state gambling regulators from Treasury, full Murphy 2023 ad ban, cashless mandatory pre-commitment, and bring online wagering under a published-rule licensing regime.
   • Added two new home-page snapshot cards (signal: concern): tobacco excise ($16.3B 2019-20 peak → $7.4B 2025-26 forecast, $22.3B four-year writedown in MYEFO Dec 2025) and gambling losses (~A$1,555/adult/yr; world's highest per-adult rate; ~2.5x the OECD average), each linked to the new sections via the proposals row.
   • Touched up Worldview-map rationales for New Australia, Libertarian, and Labor to reference the vice-revenue stance; no axis or score changes.
2. 2026-04-26 v0.9 Lessons from Argentina under Milei imported - structural-reform reframe, fiscal and monetary precedents, lean executive structure, long-form civic communication - while explicitly refusing the rule-by-decree form.
   • Added an offensive structural-reforms-compound reframe to the Economics tldr: a constitutional balanced-budget rule, a debt-monetisation ban, citizen ownership of resources, and a statutorily-lean executive change every actor's incentives at once - reforms designed for the next government to inherit, not to reverse.
   • Sharpened the Constitutional Balanced Budget why-block with the intergenerational-justice frame (deficits as a transfer from generations who do not yet have a vote) and added Argentina-2024-surplus and 2023-25 inflation-collapse context items as the strongest live demonstration that a hard zero-deficit rule can collapse expectations in months.
   • Strengthened Sound Money & Limited Central Bank with a structural-reforms-compound why-bullet and an Argentina BCRA 'zero issuance' precedent context item, and named the FV divergence to leave behind: import the rule and the narrow mandate, not the confrontational posture toward central-bank leadership.
   • Added a DNU 70/2023 counterfactual context item to Radical Deregulation: the omnibus emergency-decree approach is exactly the executive-overreach pattern Foundational Values rules out; the New Australia version delivers the same scope through primary legislation, sunsets, and one-in-two-out.
   • Added an Argentina rent-law repeal precedent to the Supply-Side Housing Revolution section (Buenos Aires listings roughly doubled, real rents fell sharply within ~6 months) - the cleanest fast experiment confirming supply responds quickly when controls are removed.
   • Added a new Lean Executive Structure section to Government Efficiency: a statutory cap on cabinet-level portfolios, mandatory five-yearly parliamentary reauthorisation of every portfolio, machinery-of-government changes affecting statutory functions by Act not Administrative Arrangements Order, and independent costing of every reorganisation by the Government Efficiency Commission. Imports the Argentine ~18 -> 9 result through legislation, not decree.
   • Added a long-form civic communication duty-of-office why-bullet to the Foundational Values 'Institutional Safeguards Against Subversion' section: ministers and senior officials owe the public extended, plain-language explanations of structural trade-offs - the practice of treating citizens as competent interlocutors - distinct from any personalist or theatrical style.
   • Clarified the Libertarian entry on the Worldview map: the entry describes the tradition, not contemporary leaders; figures who pair libertarian economics with traditionalist family commitments and faith-friendly public reason sit closer to the New Australia point on this map.
3. 2026-04-26 v0.8 Justice extended: prison standards, an organised-criminal-enterprise category, and El Salvador as both inspiration and cautionary tale.
   • Added a Prison Standards & Outcomes section to Justice - an entrenched dignity floor (cell space, time out of cell, healthcare, family contact, counsel from arrest), structured work and education, segregation of organised-crime offenders, personal officer liability for in-custody deaths, and per-facility published outcomes.
   • Added an Organised Criminal Enterprises section to Justice - a federal leadership / recruitment / material-support framework for gangs, cartels, and OMCGs, gated by the same intent + organised conduct + overt act standard as the subversion safeguards, with tattoos, neighbourhood, ethnicity, and family ties explicitly not evidence.
   • Extended Localized & Accountable Policing with the operational preconditions for accountability: pay, training, equipment, visible presence, published response and clearance rates, and an independent rapid-resolution internal-affairs body.
   • Named the El Salvador case explicitly across Justice, Rule of Law, and Foundational Values - take the segregation logic, the continuing-enterprise category, and professionalised policing; refuse the régimen de excepción, mass association-arrests, and abusive prison regime that produced them.
   • Updated the draft constitution at /constitution/ - Article VIII § 4 (Due process and fair trial) now anchors the right to counsel at the moment of arrest, requires arrested persons to be told the reasons for the arrest, requires prompt judicial supervision within 48 hours, and locks in habeas corpus against suspension. Closes the gap the El Salvador régimen exposed.
4. 2026-04-25 v0.7 Foundational Values stated honestly, then carried through every topic with due-process gates on the high-power tools.
   • Foundational Values now name the moral ground under the civic claims - inherent dignity, biblical religion as load-bearing in the West's moral grammar, 'one law for all' recast as a Christian achievement, non-establishment from theological humility rather than state neutrality. Legal text (Preamble, oaths, statutes) unchanged.
   • Subversion safeguards publish their own due-process gates: intent + organised conduct + overt act, beyond reasonable doubt; foreign-funding bans by published rule; party proscription needs the supermajority and judicial review on the merits; advocacy of constitutional change through democratic process is never grounds.
   • Constitutional entrenchment sharpened: core rights remain unamendable; the Canadian Charter's notwithstanding clause now framed as cautionary tale; the Infrastructure prioritisation body and the Energy approvals path both gain Senate-confirmed staggered terms, parliamentary supermajority override, a 10-year sunset, and judicial review.
   • One law for all operationalised across Justice, Indigenous Affairs, and Immigration: parallel sentencing tracks abolished while cultural background remains a sentencing-factor (deprivation, upbringing, remorse); voluntary Indigenous cultural ordering explicitly protected; in Immigration, state funding for parallel civic orders ends while private cultural, religious, and community life stays welcome.
   • Conscience and free inquiry strengthened across Healthcare, Education, and the research system: clinician conscience with a duty to refer; the national civic floor reframed as 'knowledge, not creed' (students taught well enough to argue with the moral grammar that shaped Australia's institutions, no theological assent assessed); academic freedom protected; ideological grant programs end while basic research continues.
   • Immigration sovereignty bounded by due process for everyone within the jurisdiction: treaty override is a Parliamentary act with reasons stated; non-refoulement narrowed; ideological vetting tightened to organised constitutional subversion only; removal on welfare-dependency grounds bounded by proportionality; means-tested first-instance legal aid retained for substantive protection claims.
   • Defence, Digital, and Economic sovereignty narrowed to operate by published rule rather than ministerial discretion: counter-influence is foreign-actors-only with publishable-evidence attribution and warrant-gated surveillance; the resource preference, strategic-industry incentives, and procurement preference all carry sunset clauses, parliamentary reauthorisation, and category rules instead of firm-by-firm picks.
   • Demographics, Integrity, Worldview, and Reviews clarified: civil family affirmation paired with an explicit 'no civil disability' assurance for same-sex couples, single parents, blended families, and other households; third-party campaign-spending caps reframed as a narrow anti-circumvention measure; the Worldview-map low pole renamed from 'Strict secularism' to 'Exclusive secular reason'; the four adversarial reviews updated to track the structural-vs-named-movements and sentencing-factor-vs-binding-jurisdiction distinctions.
5. 2026-04-25 v0.6 Worldview map, plus a home-page and sidebar reorder.
   • Added the Worldview map at /worldview/ - two radar charts placing the platform against four political traditions and the major Australian parties on four axes, each placement carrying a short rationale you can argue with.
   • Fixed long axis labels (e.g. 'Public-reason pluralism') being clipped at the chart edge - they now wrap onto two lines.
   • Promoted the Worldview map into the 'Start here' strip; moved the topics-jump card into 'Deep reads'; reordered the sidebar: Home → Worldview map → Scope of change → Dependencies → Critical reviews → Constitution (draft).
6. 2026-04-24 v0.5 Snapshot-to-proposal links, search-hit highlighting, instruments directory.
   • Snapshot stats now show a 'Proposals' pill row linking each number to the sections that claim to move it; pill colour tracks the card's signal.
   • Clicking a search result highlights every hit on the landing page, auto-opens any expander containing a match, and shows a dismissable banner.
   • Added an 'All instruments touched' directory on the Scope of Change page - every Act, Constitution section, regulation, convention, and treaty cited across the site, grouped by category.
   • The sidebar now shows a content version tag beside the site title, pulled from the newest entry here.
7. 2026-04-23 v0.4 Narrative home page, draft constitution, adversarial reviews.
   • Rebuilt the home page around a 'Start here' strip, a 'Deep reads' promo, and collapsed-by-default Snapshot and All-topics panels.
   • Added the draft constitution at /constitution/ - preamble, articles, and the unamendable core.
   • Added four adversarial political reviews at /reviews/ (centrist, conservative, libertarian, progressive) with a perspective switcher.
   • Added the Scope of change view: legislative-footprint ranking and a government-level x topic heat matrix.
   • Added a per-topic scorecard strip (sections, pathway mix, levels, dependency in/out, evidence) and 'In context' expanders on every proposed section.
8. 2026-03-10 v0.3 Initial public draft.
   • First public draft of the 21 policy topics, side-by-side 'Current Australia' vs 'New Australia'.
   • Shipped the Reform Roadmap dependency DAG with topic-level and section-level views.
   • Shipped glossary tooltips, Pagefind search, and the print / Save-as-PDF stylesheet.