An astonishingly beautiful story from Radiolab about the power of loss and love. How a person who lost someone very precious went from feeling that she was a boat being tossed around by a dangerous uncaring ocean to being powerful; to being the caring ocean. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

History isn’t a competition. Caring for each other’s history is an important practice, especially when those histories apply to the same space and place, and sometimes, even the same time. From ‘Our Common Nature’ podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c... #AusPol #CaringDemocracy #Connection

Some thoughts about how Common Endeavour's work is like digging in the dirt to maintain important public infrastructure! 😊 www.linkedin.com/posts/remo-o...

The Australia Dialogues is in Melbourne in April, talking about Australia's role in the defence of Taiwan. brisbanedialogues.org/so/82PpVvpb2 Hugh White, Mark Harrison and Alice Yang will provide a deeply informed conversation at Ormond College. An excellent opportunity. Wednesday April 15.

RE PHON, Rachel Withers makes the point that disaffected voters are also turning to Independents when they can. A party like @commonendeavour.bsky.social would complement Independents for these voters in the many seats that don’t have a good indie option. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/27/o... #AusPol

Terrific piece about the importance of third places to communities. Attractive, low cost places that people can share are vital for people’s social connection and for community health. They need to be looked after. #Connection #Democracy #Care www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

One delightful outcome of a busy week last week was some reading recommendations. Keen to get into The Care Manifesto from the Care Collective! It will be very interesting to see how the Politics of Interdependence in this work translates to Common Endeavour's Politics of #Connection. #AusPol

A nice definition of #politics from this week's Braver Angels newsletter by Sam Rechek: "politics is an undying argument about how some individual or group of people should treat some other individual or group of people. We are all qualified to argue about how we ought to behave to one another."

"Music is an extraordinary feature of the human species." Universal and wildly diverse. It doesn't only affect our emotions, it also affects how we think and understand. It defines us and it heals. Music is such a big, beautiful part of Australian culture. www.apa.org/monitor/2026... #Connection

The CAPaD Pol.is "What Canberran's want their MPs to do" results are now available. Thank you to everyone who participated! The results are informative. The same page provides the link to register for a Community Assembly on March 8 to discuss the results. canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/

Why we need to care about each other. Hannah Arendt is always a good for a reminder that we need to live together. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

“We are, and always will be, responsible for each other, and have to learn to live with the consequences of each others' actions. It's a silly libertarian fantasy to pretend otherwise.” In which I pit Julian Leeser against Hannah Arendt in-between-days.ghost.io/abolishing-c...

We've refreshed our home page to reflect a growing clarity around care democracy as our guiding framework (About) and to highlight that we are in a building phase (What's Next). Have a look and tell us what you think. And if you like what you see, come build with us. commonendeavour.org #AusPol

Friendships are good for you - in addition to their inherent awesomeness. They're a place where trust and care come together in a special way. They are relationships to nurture. #SocialConnection #Connection #Care

Over to you, JIm. It's time to make a difference, Albo www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

CAPaD update: URGENT Only a week remains for people to vote on the proposals in CAPaD’s community Poll before they analyse the results. To vote in the poll and register for the Community Assembly (Woden Valley Uniting church) on March 8th visit our website at canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/.

Michelle Grattan is solid on immigration. She reminds us that getting 'the right people' here is not the hardest part. The hardest part is how we treat people when they're here. That is often more consequential than who we give a visa to. #AusPol #Connection www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Common Endeavour has updated and added a few words on each of our values to a new 7-values page. Yes, seven is quite a lot of values for one political organisation. What can we say? There's a lot to Common Endeavour. #AusPol #Subsidiarity #Joy journal.commonendeavour.org/the-7-values...

A post about the error of equating people with the bad things they do, the ever-present possibility of redemption, and the self-fulfilling tragedy of othering. #CarePolitics #Connection www.linkedin.com/posts/remo-o...

A LinkedIn article about the poet Ross Gay, delight, wilderness, and joy. Just the usual. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tendin...

We should probably all be reading a lot more Iris Murdoch. Sometimes that something is someone. #Connection

Applications are now open! This is long overdue but utterly wonderful that Australia is finally getting a poet laureate! Will be announced in October. Can hardly wait! creative.gov.au/investments-...

Is a bill of rights a good way to build social capital and social cohesion as @juliannes.bsky.social suggests? That would be great but consider Ted Mack’s concerns that a bill of rights will politicise the judiciary and weaken democracy… #AusPol #CommEnd www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Terrific news about the Ipswich big battery. An amazing development on the old Swanbank coal fired power station site. www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...

Love this idea of “rebellious connection” from the folk at Good Conflict. People expecting division? Connect anyway. You just might see the power of diversity in action. Takes courage but many worthwhile things do. And you’ve got it. www.thegoodconflict.com

In Davos , Canadian PM Mark Carney talked about the dangers of unconsidered connection. “Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.” theguardian.com/commentisfre... #AusPol #Connection

Join in the polis chat @CAPADAUS.bsky.social are running. WHAT do you want GOVERNMENT to do for us in 2026? Take our poll to help shape a clear message to our MPs Vote on others' ideas Share the poll widely: more people, stronger message. Details & links: canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/

Daydreaming is good for social connection! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

We know parent-child relationships are important for children's health. Now we are learning that supporting safe, stable & nurturing relationships in the first three years of childhood can prevent the harm that comes from childhood adversity. www.apa.org/monitor/2026... #ChildHealth #Connection

A LinkedIn post about the ease of, and the trouble with, looking down on others. www.linkedin.com/posts/remo-o...

A new publication from the National Academies (USA) about the the way "mutual, meaningful, and affirming moments of connection" in our earliest relationships help build "thriving children, families, and communities." www.nationalacademies.org/publications... #Connection

Life was never meant to be a DIY project. It’s also true that no one in the world can live your life as well as you. You just shouldn’t be expected to do it on your own. #connection #DIY

Perfectly captures our need to be both alone and connected. #connection

Agree that it’s important to state that climate report says we’ll just miss the 2030 target but miss the 2035 target by a mile. It also noted that we achieved our biggest CO2 reduction outside Covid. So perhaps there is reason to hope for more improvement. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

Stephen Dubner on what he learnt from hanging out with economists — probability and clear-eyed reasoning is important. And what he didn’t — the connection between people is far more important. freakonomics.com/podcast/what...

A new post on LinkedIn about a beautiful podcast from Yo Yo Ma and Anna Gonzales. Reminding us of the importance of place to who we are, and the dangers of throwing in your lot with an extractive industry. www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-co...

A thoughtful exploration of important ideas about what it means that something is being said at all, rather than the specific words being said. Points to the important nexus between the market for ideas and the role of leadership. in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik... By @timhollo.bsky.social

Thank you @david-ritter.bsky.social for your informed, thoughtful interview on the 7am podcast. It is deeply encouraging to hear someone speak calmly and clearly about all that has already been achieved while still highlighting how far we have to go - as fast as possible. #connection #AusPol

What's Common Endeavour about? Connection. Not always easy but important. Political parties are important too - but don't always do a lot to help connection. The goal of Common Endeavour is to to be a party focused on the importance of connection. #connection #auspol #DemocracySausage

Potato ethics, by Malin Fors, in Bioethical Inquiry is one of our best reads of the year. Not only showing the value of ordinary ethics (Veena Das) and relational ethics (Joan Tronto) but also what rural experience can teach us all about being useful. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37043082/ #connection

The Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy is hosting an afternoon event on Sunday, December 14 to show how the online political collaboration tool Pol.is works. If you’re in town in December, go along and find out what it’s about. Register here canberra-alliance.org.au/event/

"Parasocial" is Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year One-sided relationships with people seen in media, or with chatbots, that resemble relationships with 'real' people. These can be felt as strong connections despite people not knowing them. #Connection www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/2025/11...

#HealthPsychology "The interconnectedness of fear of cancer recurrence components." Cancer symptoms, bodily triggers, perceived risk of cancer returning, and coping strategies are all part of the fear of cancer returning. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #Connection #Connectedness

Fascinating numbers from @azeem.bsky.social 📈 Data to start your week open.substack.com/pub/exponent... Most interesting i. almost 90% of China's new electricity demand is met by renewables ii. China's CO2 emissions are flat iii. China's per capita electricity consumption now higher than Europe's

Connection can be considered a conduit that creates an association or relationship but it's not value free, it has direction and valence. It can be positive or negative, strong or weak. From Brown et al. 2015, Applied Geography.

An important force for social cohesion: Australia’s public libraries are thriving as the cost of living rises. We can’t afford to lose them theconversation.com/australias-p...

Not just in the United States? www.apa.org/pubs/reports... The crisis of connection is a defining feature of our times. See also the Common Endeavour essay on loneliness. journal.commonendeavour.org/loneliness/ #AusPol #DemocracySausage

“In a time defined by distance and division, connection isn’t a luxury. It’s a responsibility.” Intrepid might be trying to sell impact and adventure travel but these words are spot on.

ChangeFest national conference in Walyalup (Fremantle) this year has a terrific program working towards place-based systems change. changefest.com.au/changefest25... #auspol

Connection as conjunction. "A ‘conjunction’ is a connective particle hinging two or more ideas; it may act as a fulcrum between concepts, offering renewed meaning, contributing to a clearer understanding or subverting an initial impetus." dhg.anu.edu.au/event_post/a...