How the GST actually gets shared out, and why it keeps causing fights
BYV: The money isn't taken from one state and handed to another. It comes from the federal budget, and that distinction is where most of the confusion starts.
Sue Barrett: every solution begins with a conversation
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The GST deal every state but one wants gone
BYV: A damning report doesn't change a single dollar. Only Federal Cabinet can do that, and it can wait until after the next election
Your Brain on Gratitude: What the Neuroscience Actually Shows
Part Two of four: gratitude isn't a feeling, it's a measurable neurochemical event, and the research now proves what Cicero only sensed.
Victoria finally closes the loophole
BYV told you in June about the deliberate con built into Victoria's upper house voting system. On 11 August, Victorian Parliament closed it. Here's what changed & what it means when you vote in Nov.
Who was consulted before the gambling ad bill was written, and who wasn't
BYV: A Senate committee reports on the government's gambling advertising bill on 17 August 2026. A friendless gambling bill just became a Labor-Coalition deal. Who was consulted still matters.
The Daily Practice of Gratitude Is a Defiant Act of Rebellion
Why choosing gratitude in a fractured world isn't sentimental, it's structural, and the first of four pieces on what it actually asks of us.
How to read a government funding announcement
BYV: A step-by-step guide to spotting the difference between "more money" and "enough money"
Record investment, real cuts.
BYV: How two state governments can both be telling the truth about "record investment", and still be leaving frontline services short.
The Addendum: What the Age's Tim Wilson Profile Left Out
The Age Gave Him Five Thousand Words, and Space for Winnie the Pooh and Blue Socks. The Record Deserved a Few Hundred More. Colour Is Not Character, and Charisma Is Not Accountability.
A Democracy Field Guide: What A Better Answer Actually Looks Like
One Nation is the wrong answer to the right question. Part Eleven: not the argument, the frame around it. A guide for anyone ready to stop diagnosing and start doing something.
Every party decides who it represents before you ever see a ballot. This is how.
BYV: Legally, your MP represents everyone in your electorate. In practice, what gets heard depends on what their party has already decided is acceptable.