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  2. What Australia Actually Did

    The question that has not been asked In the six weeks between the twenty-eighth of February and the eighth of April, the Australian government took a series of decisions in response to the American and Israeli war against Iran. Most Australians do not know what those decisions were. The decisions we

  3. The Upstream Principle

    The Available Remedies, Part One Walker Briefing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A note on what follows Yesterday I examined how the condition this Briefing has been diagnosing appears at the centre of

  4. The War That Proved the Diagnosis

    Six weeks that answered a question In the last weeks I published the second article in a series on the Confucian concept of disciplined proportionate response. The article was titled “What Sustainable Sovereignty Actually Requires.” It asked whether Australia could afford to continue calibrating its

  5. What the Patient Decides

    The consulting room In the opening passage of the final article in this series, I described a moment familiar to any general practitioner: the moment after the investigations are complete, the referrals have returned, and the diagnosis is no longer in doubt. The patient sits across the desk. The fil

  6. The System That Teaches Silence

    When I first entered parliament, a colleague took me aside and offered what he clearly considered a kind lesson. He explained to the me - the newbie - how the system actually works: stay on the right side of the party room, and you will be able to do things for your constituents. Cross it, and you w

  7. The Recovery of Judgement

    Where are we now? As a medical practitioner I often sit in front of a patient with the results of investigations and referrals which mandate an action. Perhaps it is a cardiovascular urgency: familial hyperlipidaemia has produced a 95 per cent stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery

  8. Coming to a Conclusion

    You have been exposed over the last few months to some seriously dense material. The last piece in this current series is arriving on Monday, and following that piece I promise I will revert to less challenging density and volume. Once I have these basics of deciphering the “what” out of the way I w

  9. The Sovereign Deficit

    The integrating question There is a discipline that experienced practitioners in any complex field eventually develop, though they rarely name it explicitly. It is the habit of distrust toward the presenting complaint. Not distrust of the patient, nor of the reality of the symptom, but of the comple

  10. The Corrective Forces That Overshoot

    On Democratic Self-Defence and the Paradox It Has Produced The Measure That Cannot Be Borrowed Walker Briefing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Zhōng Yōng (中庸) does not ask for the midpoint between co

  14. What Sustainable Sovereignty Actually Requires

    The question the series has been building toward The preceding pieces in this series have examined, from different angles, the same underlying condition: a political order losing its capacity for proportionate response, and an Australian strategic posture that has failed to reckon honestly with what

  16. The Loss of Balance: 中庸之道 and the Age of Unravelling

    The discipline of equilibrium The Chinese concept known as 中庸之道 (Zhōng Yōng Zhī Dào) is almost always mistranslated in Western commentary as the Way of the Mean, and that mistranslation does considerable damage to the idea it is supposed to convey. The word “mean” arrives carrying its English freigh

  19. WHO GUARDS THE GATEKEEPERS OF INSIGHT?

    On insight inflation, institutional failure, and the politics of knowing in an age of artificial intelligence The Problem Behind the Problem John Elkington is one of the more reliable early-warning systems in international sustainability discourse. He coined the Triple Bottom Line. He has been mappi