Announcing South Sea Republic's first book;
South Sea Republic Volume One
. This is a collection of articles by Avocadia, Scrymarch, Siento and myself compiled into a single volume. The articles are separated logically by the themes; Education, Military and Global Society, History and the Ghost of Time, and finally; Refactoring Government.
Summary
What happens when a group of software engineers apply their analytic, modelling and refactoring skills to politics? You get South Sea Republic. The software industry is at the forefront of a world that is changing from scarcity to abundance. Whether government wants to or not, it too will be caught up in the abundance era. This book explores the interfaces between government and culture, politics and the people, economy and individuals, scarcity and abundance. Avocadia, Adam Burke, Cameron Riley and Siento weave a narrative which explores our existing modern issues and structures; offering not only insight, but progressive solutions. These are all founded upon the principles of freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic.
Table of Contents
Education
+ Reform For The NSW Education System
+ Education and Investment Cycles
+ The Knowledge Economy
The Military and the Global Society
+ The Austral-Asian Strike Fighter
+ Chalmers Johnson's Blowback
+ Australian Power Projection
+ The ADF and Australian Republican Doctrine
+ The Importance Of No In A Healthy Democracy
+ The Amputated Chicken
History and The Ghost of Time
+ Raffaello Carboni, Great Works
+ Free Trade vs Protectionists
+ Flash-Mobs Are The New Public Intellectuals
Refactoring Government
+ Government Design Patterns - Election
+ Increasing The Churn Rate
+ The Australian Ratification Party
+ Australian Head Of State As Rights Referee
+ Inevitability and Definitions
+ The Fourth Estate
+ Threats To Power
+ Offsetting The Power of Incumbency
+ The International Electoral Commission
+ Australian Bill of Rights
The book can also be
read as a free PDF
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Congratulations to the authors of this book. May it be the first of many volumes to come hot off the press of South Sea Republic.
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Most Popular on South Sea Republic
The articles that have been viewed the most:
Most Popular Restaurants in Phoenix
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Most Popular Hikes in Arizona
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Alternate Australian Constitutions
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
Archives For South Sea Republic
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
Who Is Cam Riley
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
Websites Worth Reading
Websites of friends, colleagues and of interest;
