The Cheryl Lacey Show

Our unhinged behaviour on social media is becoming increasingly concerning.

Our innocence, generosity, and trust are depleting at an accelerated rate.

The anger, selfishness and alienation stemming from the human condition is being amplified.

To become sound managers of this powerful and truly unlock the positive potential of social media, we need to address the issue that’s driving that feeding frenzy of distraction and reinforcement.

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We the People of the Commonwealth must establish a People’s Parliament in Common Law, directly accountable to the people, with an oversight committee elected by the people in each community. 

Election will be done by a secure blockchain voting app.

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Who should pay for someone's education?

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80% of trade carried out by sea. What does that mean for Australia? 

Think Darwin Port ... and the rest.

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Do these values stack up? The last one certainly doesn't!

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Pentagon contractor Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones faces Espionage Act charges for allegedly leaking classified intelligence to a reporter. FBI agents seized the reporters phones and laptops an unprecedented move that has press freedom advocates sounding the alarm.

Then Trump delivered his warning: "There is every reason to believe that what was just experienced by a Washington Post reporter was just the tip of the iceberg of things to come."

When national security is under threat President Trumps isn't far away. 

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One Nation - 30 years in the tyrannical and corrupt parliament. Sure, there's enthusiasm for change coming from many Australians. But not if it means sustaining party politics. The two party monopoly isn't the problem. It's political parties - Full Stop. What does One Nation think? More important, what do you think?

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What happens when power becomes insulated from consequence? Bernie Finn - sacked from the Liberal Party -  describes a parliament wrapped up in its own internal dramas, detached from the lives of the people it governs.

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The constitution wasn't written to empower politicians. It was written to restrain them. At its core, it's a document designed to protect citizens from government overreach, to set boundaries that even the most well-intentioned leaders cannot cross. But a constitution is only as strong as those who enforce it.

When politicians push beyond their authority, when new laws encroach on fundamental rights, it's the judiciary that must uphold the constitution - not by making policy, but by faithfully applying the constitution as written. The question is whether our courts still see themselves as defenders of those boundaries, or whether they've become just another arm of an ever-expanding state.

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Why are we looking everywhere except where the real answers lie? In this unflinching conversation, Human rights advocate Menachem Vorchheimer - an 8th generation Australian Jewish - discusses the transformation from a place of genuine safety and social harmony to today's fractured reality. He likens our plight to that which Rudy Giulliani endured and overcame by enacting the Theory of Broken Windows.  Essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the forces reshaping Australian society and the sanitised conclusions of government.

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