March 11, 2025
Hello
While this letter is delivered to our full database, it mainly consists of a draft pertaining to the Australian Federal Election (due within 67 days) and, originally, this draft was exclusively meant for The Citizens’ Dividend Organisation’s (CDO) Confidants.
[‘The CDO-Confidants’ is a 90% Australian multi-domain multi-partisan 11,000-strong group (mostly leaders in their field) spanning academia, the arts, business, education, emergency services, the environment, health, law, media, the military, philanthropy, other public-services, religion, social-services (including trade-unions), sport, think-tanks and, regarding politicians (Left-to-Right/conservative-to-progressive), around 80% of Australia’s Federal, State & Council representatives.]
Regarding the draft, in short, it points out the upcoming Australian election may be Australian-sovereignty’s last chance and, therefore, as part of that electoral contest, asks the CDO-Confidants to assist in raising the CDO’s ideas; however, while the CDO’s ideas have considerable covert support, to this point, they’ve received zero overt support – i.e. from a non-CDO source, have you heard/read any mention of Coopetition, Coopetism or ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’?
Thus, concluding such a request wouldn’t work, it hasn’t been actualised.
Following the draft, is a detailing of The CDO’s post-election-intention.
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Subject: If the Pacific is to be Left to China, Can Australia Independently Maintain Its Sovereignty (at least to the 2028 election)?
‘The world has already started planning for a lawless era’
– Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-chief, The Economist [& CDO-Confidant], February 28, 2025
‘The goal of American isolationists: Let China dominate the Pacific, Russia dominate Europe, and the U.S. the Americas.’
– ‘Trump’s old world order,’ The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, March 3, 2025
The Chinese “are practising and rehearsing” and collecting intelligence.
– Greg Moriarty, Australian Defence Department head [& CDO-Confidant] regarding the unprecedented recent Chinese navy circumnavigation of Australia and unannounced firing drills in the Tasman Sea, which also exposed Australia’s surveillance inadequacies.
‘Regarding Australia’s short-term future, via the CDO’s method [i.e. of analysing governmental systems rather than governing personalities], it predicts [the 2025] election will occur; however, the next one may be of a manner currently unrecognisable, if it occurs at all.’
– Citizens’ Dividend Organisation (CDO), Coopetism 5.7, October 31, 2024
‘Australia is locked in a culture of denial and obsolete thinking – election 2025 shapes as a dispiriting project with neither the Albanese government nor the Dutton opposition confronting the challenges the nation faces. … Australia looks static, lost in a world moving too fast, defined by strategic danger, deepening economic competition, technological upheaval and unresolved fiscal demands. … Neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton seem capable of putting an agenda to the public that is fit to meet the disruption, opportunity and transformation lying ahead.’
– Paul Kelly, The Australian [& CDO-Confidant], March 8, 2025
[CDO Comment: Paul, as one of Australia’s foremost opinion journalists, unsurprisingly, your capturing of the situation is sublime; however, isn’t the catalysing of mass depression only justifiable if, later in the article, the solution is also mentioned?]
“We, as an electorate, have asked our politicians to avoid challenging us. … That’s an acceptance of a status quo that is failing. We have stopped fighting harder for our future. And our politicians have stopped challenging us.”
– Chris Richardson, economist [& CDO-Confidant], March 8, 2025
[CDO Comment: Chris, similar to Paul, as one of Australia’s foremost economists, we need you to tell us precisely what we should be fighting for.]
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With no country having optimised its Governance Model, the West is failing, which may partly explain why the Trump administration is withdrawing support for the rules-based order – i.e. it may believe The USA can’t fulfil such expectations – however, the better course is to optimise The Western Model.
March 11, 2025
Dear [CDO-Confidant’s Name]
This is a personal letter to all CDO-Confidants only.
At this point, it’s unclear whether the Trump administration:
- Wishes to confront China and, believing it can’t also confront Russia, seeks rapprochement with Russia so that, at worst, it’s no longer an adversary and, at best, becomes an ally; or,
- Intends leaving the Pacific or, at least, East Asia & the South Pacific to China.
Given the Trump Administration’s intention is unknown and, in any case, may change, in the short-term, Australia needs to be prepared for both; however, regarding the latter, in the short-term, it’s too late to prepare.
Regarding the medium-term, which, these days, may be just one election cycle, even if the Trump administration is initially intent on confronting China, it may fail (perhaps because of social-disunity including via its tariffs disrupting its economy) in which case, isolating itself to the Americas will, by default, probably become its Plan B.
Thus, Australia’s medium-term priority, which must start with a decision this election, should be to prepare for no/minimal US support.
Australia: China’s Constantinople
Australia should consider itself a first-tier Xi Jin Ping target as Australia vis-à-vis Taiwan is vastly more:
- Attractive – i.e. it’s a continent facing 3 oceans and, including vast non-mainland Territories, its resources, location and sparse population perfectly compliment China’s
- Vulnerable – i.e. it doesn’t possess much manufacturing and, if invaded, is unlikely to receive much support from far away Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe etc.
In sum, Australia may have the world’s highest attractiveness/vulnerability ratio – especially from China’s point of view.
That is, better than the Roman Empire’s Rome & Constantinople, China (Xi-na) and Australia (Xi-lia)
‘would create a (common-longitude/similar-time-zone) northern-southern-hemisphere-spanning-pincer of unparalleled strategic value.
And, with South East Asia suddenly wedged between the Xina-Xilia pincer, all of its states – including Indonesia (population 274 million – the world’s fourth largest) – would become vassal states.
What a boost for the Belt and Road with, potentially, a giant globe-splitting Xina-Xilia maritime tollway.
Moreover, ‘ownership’ of Australia would deliver Xi ownership of New Zealand and the rest of the South Pacific.
And, taking the ‘great-historical-humiliator’ Britain’s former colony, which is still dominated by British descendants and British societal-systems and which still has the British monarch as head of state would have untold propaganda symbolism. …
Yet, there’s far more than even this – i.e. there is Antarctica or, potentially, ‘Xi-ctica’.’
– CDO, The Universalist 15, September 21, 2020
So, if others leave the Pacific to China, can Australia independently ensure its sovereignty?
While the consensus is, “no possible way;” The CDO says “yes;” however, only if this coming federal election (due on or before May 17, 2025) is transformed into a mandate for optimising Australia’s governance.
Optimising Australia’s Governance
As nature shows, in the case of all organisms (including traditional tribal humans), a society is characterised by ‘Coopetition’ – i.e. Cooperation first & foremost and, within that context, Competition as the treasured second.
Within our societies, this pattern is already ubiquitous – i.e. from legal-courts to sport to democracy, there are rules under which competition may be fierce.
However, in a modern ‘society of strangers,’ there must be Coopetive-catalysing social-infrastructure – i.e. specifically, the 4 cornerstones of:
- Universal Rule of Coopetivity-catalysing Law
- Universal Subsistence Income (USI)
- Universal Education
- Universal Healthcare.
In full, this is ‘Coopetism’ – i.e.:
- ‘Coopetition’ is nature’s morality-system; and,
- ‘Coopetism’ is optimal governmental Coopetition-catalysing infrastructure.
Regarding the existing Western Model, despite not having the Coopetition narrative, Coopetive social-infrastructures have overwhelmingly bottom-up evolved with one exception – i.e. The USI.
Moreover, while the 4 Coopetism cornerstones crystalise as Universal Liberal Democracy, this doesn’t yet exist because, without The USI, there’s Subsistence-Income-Servitude (SIS) – i.e. servitude is Authoritarian, which, ‘knock knock,’ explains why our ‘Democracy’ is losing its desirability particularly amongst the young.
Regarding why The USI hasn’t evolved, the reason is it has been blocked via:
- First, Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW), which causes unemployment; then,
- Second, (targeted yet paradoxically divisive, distortionary and inefficient) income-Welfare.
Thus, short of societal-collapse, The USI can’t evolve – i.e. it can only be implemented via a deliberate conscious top-down decision.
Meanwhile, economically, UMHoW and income-Welfare have culminated in our anti-Coopetive ‘tug-of-war economy.’
The Left/Right ‘Tug-of-War Economy’
Born of The USI-absence, the pure-waste ‘tug-of-war economy’ consists of a battle between:
- The Left, which, at their purest, are ‘champions of Cooperation;’ and,
- The Right, which, at their purest, are ‘champions of Competition.’
The Left includes politicians (in Australia, Labor, Greens etc.), social-services (including trade-unions) and bureaucrat & non-government-organisation accountants, lawyers, HR professionals, administrators and managers.
And, the Right also includes politicians (Liberal, National etc.) and private-sector accountants, lawyers, HR professionals, administrators and managers.
In sum, the tug-of-war economy consists of, at least, 90% of organisations and citizen-employees who spend their lives pulling in opposite directions such that most of their respective efforts cancel each other out, which means the tug-of-war’s only legacies are social-division and wanton natural-environment destruction, which explains why, after 265 years since the Industrial Revolution, our GDP-to-USI Ratio is just 5.
Hence, if the tug-of-war economy can be eradicated and those in it transferred into producing the-end-goods-&-services-we-want, our GDP-to-USI Ratio will (with no extra effort, resources or innovation) increase to around 50, which means the production of what-we-want will increase from around 8% of China’s to 80%.
Meanwhile, economists, who should be our leaders pointing the way, are lost – i.e. their thinking on economic growth is restrained to between 1 and 4% per year, they advocate productivity gains without realising a ‘productivity gain’ in the tug-of-war economy produces no societal benefit and ‘celebrity economists,’ like court jesters, allow themselves to be corralled into performing infantile cameos in which they pontificate their best guess on the pending interest rate, unemployment rate or GDP growth (every night, there’s one or more on the news).
Regarding the tug-of-war economy, perhaps worse than its inefficiency, becoming an increasingly greater portion of the total economy, this means it’s becoming increasingly socially unwieldy – i.e. each surge is, in turn, taking us further to the Left then the Right then …., which will end in societal-collapse.
Yet, is it written in stone that the Left and the Right must be adversaries?
No – we need both the Left’s Cooperation and the Right’s Competition; however, it must be in the Coopetive configuration.
Historically, regarding Coopetism’s 3 other infrastructures of Universal Rule of Coopetivity-catalysing Law, Universal Education & Universal Healthcare, pre-implementation, the Left & Right disagreed – i.e. The Left wanted it and The Right resisted (Democracy is muddied) – however, post-implementation, that disagreement has evaporated into universal acceptance and even bipartisan support in which, moreover, The Right improves it via Competitive advancements.
For instance, regarding Universal Healthcare, wherever it has been implemented it has become bipartisan yet, in the one Western nation yet to adopt it, The USA, The Left & Right are still at loggerheads over it.
Accordingly, in most of the West, The Left and The Right largely agree on the 3 implemented Coopetism cornerstones and their resultant ‘Liberal Democracy’ such that their remaining battling is mostly confined to The USI-absence’s aspects of: UMHoW, income-Welfare and related derivatives such as unemployment and labour market de/regulation.
Thus, structurally, societal-unity is just The USI away from being holistically maximised.
‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform:’ The Roadmap from UMHoW/income-Welfare to The USI
Because The USI’s evolution is blocked, the solution requires, first, citizens understanding The USI-absence is our Western Model’s greatest deficiency then for The USI to be substituted for both:
- Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW)
- Income-Welfare.
That is, we require ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform.’
Yes, it’s a large step; however, far from being painful, it’s blessedly efficient and humanistic.
Then, with ‘The Reform’ implemented, Coopetism will be implemented in full, which means each citizen will be maximally infrastructurally empowered and encouraged to:
‘Societally-contributively self-actualise’
which, in turn, will automatically achieve national:
‘SEE-in sustainable-stability-prosperity-optimisation’
where SEE-in is Socio-Econo-Enviro-[international/natural].
That is, Coopetism’s social-infrastructures automatically achieve:
- The Socio- of optimally-interactive
- The Econo- of supremely-efficient
- The International-Enviro- of maximally-sovereign
- The Natural-Enviro- of perpetually-sustainable.
Regarding Coopetism’s benefits, it starts with the Socio-, which makes sense because a society is its citizens and the Socio- is ‘of citizens’ – i.e. Coopetism eradicates infrastructural-Disempowerment (such that there is Universal Empowerment) then flows through the Econo- and the 2 Enviros.
Regarding The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’s impact on the Socio-, it eradicates: SIS, poverty, unemployment, employee-exploitation, anti-Coopetive regulation, infrastructural-despair etc.
Also, as shown in Coopetism 5.10, due to minimising escapism, it’s half the solution to the illegal-hard-drug crisis.
Regarding the Econo-, with all citizens taken care of, The Reform will automatically pull people and other resources out of the ‘tug-of-war economy’ yet, with unemployment eradicated, these citizens will have opportunities galore to contribute in the sustainable-stability-prosperity-optimisation ‘tsunamic economy.’
In this way, all bureaucracies, businesses and employees will contribute to producing the end-goods-&-services-we-want.
Accordingly, The Reform both unleashes and productively-harnesses citizens’ (including businesses’) potential to the extent, beyond being self-funding, the government-budget will be depressurised (and taxes fall), which forms a virtuous business-health-&-tax-cut cycle.
Hence, irrespective of any USA tariffs and/or plummeting Chinese mineral-demand, Australian citizens will be vastly better-off – i.e. any nation/s’ tariffs will be water off a duck’s back such that, even under autarky, Australia will be vastly better-off.
Thus, ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ all but guarantees Australia’s sovereignty – i.e. China cannot duplicate Coopetism without forgoing its Authoritarian system yet, witnessing Australia’s success, Chinese citizens will agitate for their government to do precisely that, thereby undermining China’s Authoritarianism and, therefore, further reducing it as a threat to Australia.
Certainly, no longer will Australia be a beggar or otherwise humiliated.
If you agree so far then you may also agree Australia’s salvation depends on winning the ‘politics’ over the next 67 days – i.e. if this period is wasted then, by the time the next election arrives, the world’s trajectory – let alone Australia’s – may be unalterable.
Accordingly, a political plan follows.
The Political Plan
First, everything’s at stake – i.e. if Australia’s sovereignty evaporates, obviously everything citizens have built (everything you’ve built – your career, wealth, lifestyle and family) may collapse.
Second, the political class’s aim cannot be the traditional pursuit for personal power but must be to finish optimising our system.
Yet, globally, despite a dearth of political parties, not one is representing ‘The Optimised Western Model’ – i.e. not one is advocating for ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform,’ let alone Coopetism.
Thus, the CDO seeks to complement, work alongside and assist existing parties via supporting them when their policies are Coopetition-consistent and pointing out when their policies are anti-Coopetive.
Third, every existing Party and independent has reason to support ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ because, whatever the ‘good faith’ priority, The Reform will automatically optimise it – i.e. for:
- Labor, it assists paid-workers & the Disempowered
- Liberal, it assists entrepreneurialism and small/big business
- Nationals, it assists rural-regions and farmers
- Greens/Teals, it assists the environment
- All, it assists ‘automatic universal SEE-in sustainable-stability-prosperity optimisation’ (including sovereignty)
Fourth, given it takes at least 3 months for a political party to be registered, it’s too late to register a party (say, ‘The Coopetism Party’) prior to the upcoming election; hence, perhaps a Teals-like conglomeration of ‘independent’ candidates can run then, post-election, a party can be registered. [If an existing party adopts the policies, The Coopetism Party isn’t needed.]
Certainly, given the CDO-Confidants are, surely, the most substantive, cross-sectional and powerful mostly-Australian group ever connected, undoubtedly, it’s potentially a source for a new Australian political Party.
For instance, the CDO-Confidants include over 3,800 sitting local government councillors spread throughout every Australian electoral jurisdiction, which means they alone could provide more than enough potential candidates for:
- The House of Representatives: 151
- The Senate: 14 – i.e. 2 for each state and 1 each for the NT & ACT.
Ideally, every seat should be represented and every seat represented will increase the likelihood of the media reporting & discussing the policies and, therefore, will expedite their implementation – i.e. irrespective of winning any seats, just competing will move ‘The Overton Window.’
The greater the candidates’ profile, the better – for example, a national profile helps all candidates, which helps disseminate the ideas.
Regarding vetting, given the short time and the CDO’s limited resources, predominantly, it will be self-vetting – i.e. can you commit to, in general, the Coopetition principle and support Coopetism’s social-infrastructures, particularly the signature policy of, ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’?
Accordingly, we now ask for expressions of interest from would-be candidates (please reply to this email).
In addition to the $2,000 Australian Electoral Commission’s registration fee, which candidates need to finance, one needs the signatures of 100 eligible voters who are entitled to vote in, regarding the House of Representatives, the division for which you are nominating and, regarding the Senate, in that state or territory.
Fifth, the plan is wholly dependent on you the CDO-Confidants – i.e. excluding those such as CDO-Confidant senior bureaucrats and judges who can’t overtly contribute:
- For those already in politics, such as state/federal politicians/candidates, you can advocate for these policies within those structures
- For the remaining, if you’re willing, there’s several ways you can assist.
In addition to electoral candidate volunteers:
- The CDO needs assistance in setting-up the legal structure (including the capacity to accept donations)
- Candidates need campaigning support including via doorknocking and at polls.
For its part, the CDO can offer candidates support in the form of communicating with:
- The CDO-Confidants
- Its main database, which includes around 1.1 % of the Australian electorate.
Conclusion: It’s Now or Expect Regret.
The imminent Australian election must be a mandate for ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ because it solves our problems – i.e. it eradicates infrastructural-Disempowerment, promotes Democracy, facilitates freedom (including free-markets), depressurises the government-budget, decreases taxes and ends the ‘tug-of-war economy’ such that our economy becomes, exclusively, a ‘tsunamic economy,’ which means our production of the end-goods-&-services-we-want goes from 8% of China’s to 80%.
Thus, independent of any other country’s actions, ‘The Reform’ will all but guarantee our sovereignty.
There are 5 ways you can assist:
- In-principle support
- Public support including in the media or allowing us to quote you
- Advice (including legal especially regarding CDO & Party setups)
- Donations (when we have the capacity to receive them)
- Volunteering to become a candidate.
Thank you.
Best regards
Paul Ross
Founder & CEO
The Citizens’ Dividend Organisation (CDO)
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CDO Post-Election Intention
{Given Name}:
As alluded, the reason The CDO isn’t actioning the above email is, while there’s significant subsurface bubbling and, even, traction for both Coopetism and ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform,’ there’s zero overt support, which means, even with our optimism, we can’t see any possibility of it working – i.e. of gaining support that will impact the 2025 Australian election.
Nevertheless, should any Australians decide to run in the election and also commit to adhering to Coopetition principles, the Coopetism narrative and, particularly, ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ then our support is offered.
Regarding post-election, the CDO recommits to continue its advocating up to 2028. [With the world disintegrating, given our conviction as to the solution, what’s the alternative?]
Along with intermittent articles, the focus will turn to completing a book on the theory (by year’s end) and, should support become sufficient, forming The Coopetism Party.
If you wish to be an inaugural member of The Coopetism Party, please reply.
There will be 2 streams:
- Full-members
- Associates who are either non-Australians or are Australians who, perhaps already committed to another Party, don’t wish to exclusively commit.
Regarding non-Australians, given Coopetism needs to become a global movement, The CDO is ready to assist anywhere especially since:
- Establishing the first such Party will help catalyse others
- Australia, which has been most exposed to the CDO’s ideas, at least to this point, seems lacking of the requisite imagination/vitality – i.e. as implied by Chris Richardson, it may even have given-up, which means it may already be lost.
Lastly, after conducting this project for 7 years, the most perplexing aspect is the sense the human-mind seems to have, literally, bumped some sort of cut-off switch – i.e. the whole world knows there’s something deeply wrong and, therefore, its best and brightest are scouring for the solution, yet the solution has been made clear (for years now) but, worldwide, all eschew mentioning (let alone discussing) it.
For instance, a single think-tank/social-service/media-organisation (out of the tens of thousands globally) can have a hundred plus people all wasting years of their life on peripheral, usually counterproductive, matters; yet, all they all want to do is keep doing what they’re doing – i.e. anything else, even the solution, is perceived as an interruption and, therefore, resented such that they double-down.
This circumstance has nothing to do with intelligence; it’s something else; perhaps, an overload thing such as a feeling the situation is too complex and diabolical for the solution to be so simple and blissful and/or it’s an ego thing such as it’s not my idea, doesn’t fit into my worldview so I’m not going to accept it and, anyway, who does this guy think he is emailing everyone? [As consolation, it’s no fun this end.]
We offer again, the solution has been found so let’s discuss it.