I can’t speak for most yes voters but for me, what Albanese wanted was irrelevant. I voted yes because that’s what the deliberative process that produced the Uluru Statement called for

A public holiday for a competition grand final in which you have no teams… Isn’t history great?

The inner-north lime conspiracy continues!

Reading Stan Grant two weeks in a row. Requires stamina - but this (paywalled) piece about the idea of America is very good. Still not optimistic but a good exploration of what you get if you build a nation on a man made faith. www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/s...

Once upon a time in America

As the presidential election campaign grows ever more feverish, is the idea of America in terminal decline?

I shall just have to hold out for the podcast!

Oh my. If only I was in the UK! And I don’t often say that 😁

In my reading of him he’s deeply critical of the view from nowhere. I don’t think he’d disagree that the republicans have gone rogue - he calls Trump ‘American grotesque’ but he strongly disagrees that Democrats are the solution. An alternative sure. A solution, no.

Strengthening the middle class would be a good thing. A commitment without a meaningful way to do it is less much less helpful.

He is hard to work out - but I get the sense that he would like someone to grow a spine, in the sense of being able to articulate a clear moral vision for leadership

I don’t know. I get more of a ‘neither side-ism’ from him.