Draft Submission to ACT Government Communit…

Submission to ACT Chief Minister’s paper on “Citizen Centred Governance”
http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2659/citizen_centred_governance.pdf
Citizen Centred Governance is broadly defined as involving citizens in a constructive way in the governance of their own community. In a democracy citizens are indirectly involved in their communities through their elected representatives and through the public service which is paid to carry [...]

Privacy and Electronic Identification

Privacy and Electronic Identification
Electronic identification is of great advantage to organisations and individuals. There are also many benefits to individuals in having a national ID card and being able to access the information on the card electronically.
To date Australia has not introduced a national identification system because it has the potential to compromise an [...]

Comment in the Economist

Comment in the Economist
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11901591
Traders did what comes naturally given the commodity they were trading. The problem is not with traders and the solution is not to be found in their operations. The problem is in the system where all asset classes use the same money. That is the traders trade money not assets. Money is [...]

Chapter 4 – Energy Rewards

The Energy Problem

The psychology of carbon pricing – Bottom level transactions – Conducting transactions – The surcharge on energy – Can we achieve economic efficiency? – Simplicity and Fairness- Emergent properties of the system
The Psychology of putting a price on Carbon

Conventional wisdom says that if we put a price on greenhouse emissions from fossil [...]