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A fair go in the age of intelligence
An invitation to build Joyful Responsible Abundance

Luke Nathan Hayes · September 2026 · 8 pages · Updated reference links

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All 31 entries from the updated document, plus the shorter AI and data centres submission added to this web edition. Source descriptions are preserved; web notes explain matches, related material and gaps.

Institutional links were identified on 21 September 2026. Connected projects link to their public pages and repositories. “Awaiting document” means the named file has not yet been added; “Partly linked” means part of an entry remains to be confirmed.

32 references

01Source linked

UNGA81: restoring trust

United Nations General Assembly. Eighty-first session theme and President's framing: “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations That Delivers for All.”

02Source linked

Insecurity, inequality and trust

United Nations. Work on the connections between economic insecurity, inequality, declining trust and social fragmentation, cited in the opening discussion.

Supporting primary source added for the web edition. The original register did not identify an exact publication.

03Source linked

Suicide and its contributing factors

World Health Organization. Suicide estimates and discussion of social, psychological, biological and environmental factors; the original cites 727,000 estimated deaths in 2021.

04Source linked

Family choices and the cost of living

United Nations Population Fund. 2025 survey findings across 14 countries on financial limitations, desired family size and fears about the future.

05Source linked

Mental health at work

World Health Organization. Guidance on mental health at work, including excessive workloads, inadequate pay, insecurity, low control, discrimination and poor working conditions.

06Source linked

Social-media minimum age

Australian eSafety Commissioner. Guidance on Australia's social-media minimum-age requirements, commencing 10 December 2025, and platform responsibilities.

08Source linked

Department of War secondary title

White House. 2025 executive order authorising “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, while retaining its statutory name unless changed by Congress.

09Source linked

AUKUS advanced capabilities

Australian Department of Defence. AUKUS Pillar II advanced-capability priorities, including artificial intelligence, autonomy, quantum, cyber, electronic warfare, hypersonics and undersea systems.

10Source linked

Ocean of Peace Alliance and Vuvale Union

Australian Government. July 2026 announcements and treaty material concerning the Ocean of Peace Alliance (Veitacini Treaty) and Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union.

11Source linked

Recovering computing heat

International Energy Agency. Data-centre heat recovery and district-heating examples in Stockholm and Finland; the original cites roughly 70 to 80 per cent recovery using heat pumps.

12Source linked

Generative AI and jobs

International Labour Organization. 2025 assessment of occupational exposure to generative artificial intelligence, including the estimate that one in four workers globally have some exposure and that transformation is more likely than complete replacement for most exposed occupations.

13Partly linked

The 2016 scenario and the Great Reset

World Economic Forum. Speculative 2016 future scenario associated with “you'll own nothing and you'll be happy”; separately, the Great Reset initiative launched during COVID.

The 2020 initiative is linked. The exact 2016 scenario link remains to be confirmed; they are separate publications.

14Source linked

Truthfulness and electoral accountability

Senedd Cymru Member Accountability and Elections Act 2026. Accountability provisions and requirements concerning false or misleading statements of fact intended to affect electoral outcomes.

Part 3 requires ministers to make provision about electoral misstatements. Read the Act and commencement details for its legal scope.

15Source linked

Biological risk and AI safeguards

OpenAI. Published discussion of increasingly capable AI lowering barriers to harmful biological work and associated safeguards.

Supporting primary source added for the web edition. The original register did not identify an exact publication.

16Source linked

Heightened AI safeguards

Anthropic. Published discussion of heightened safeguards concerning chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risks.

Supporting primary source added for the web edition. The original register did not identify an exact publication.

17Document available

AUKUS Public Inquiry submission

Hayes, Luke Nathan. AUKUS Public Inquiry submission, 2026 (Word document).

Unchanged AUKUS submission dated 24 August 2026. Duplicate archive copy omitted. The similarly titled Senate AI paper is a different submission.

18Document available

Veitacini Treaty submission

Hayes, Luke Nathan. Ocean of Peace Alliance / Veitacini Treaty submission, 2026 (Word document).

Unchanged Word revision 2, last edited 28 August 2026. Matching local copies were byte-identical.

19Document available

BE LAU Protopian Gambit

Hayes, Luke Nathan. BE LAU Protopian Gambit Pacific discussion paper, 2026 (Word document).

Unchanged Word revision 3, last edited 27 August 2026. This includes author edits absent from the earlier Markdown copy.

21Project linked

Mutual Futures

Mutual Futures. Voluntary business succession, member ownership, technological upgrading and connected livelihood experiments.

Public project pages and repositories. Proposals and prototypes retain their stated development status.

22Partly linked

Try Everything Once and ready SET

Try Everything Once; ready SET Co-op (ready sustainable employment and training cooperative). Supported work exploration, learning, workplaces and mentors.

Related ready SET public work is linked. A separate Try Everything Once resource remains to be added.

23Partly linked

Time, intelligence and adequate income

Intermittent Retirement; Universal Intelligence; Universal Adequate Income. Proposals concerning time, access to intelligence and adequate livelihoods.

These proposals are included in the livelihoods chapter. A separate reference document or URL remains to be added.

24Project linked

De-Slop and Aura Geode

De-Slop; Aura Geode; Oceania Healthy De-Slop Co-ops. Author's beliefs and proposed research into individually tailored food, fasting, movement, sleep, heat, cold, light, sound and hyperbaric approaches; affordable and free everyday access; shared facilities, personal data stewardship and local computing.

Public project pages and repositories. Proposals and prototypes retain their stated development status.

27Project linked

P4A

P4A (proposed Purple Party for Australia). Civic understanding, legal reflection, modelling, simulation, humour and the proposed cyber-republic horizon.

Public project pages and repositories. Proposals and prototypes retain their stated development status.

28Partly linked

The Braided Economy and C-Hours

The Braided Economy; Community-Hours (C-Hours). Separate records of money, verified voluntary contribution and outcomes.

The C-Hour repository is linked. No working GitHub Pages address is confirmed; a separate Braided Economy resource remains to be added.

29Project linked

GAJRA Earth

G.A.J.R.A. Earth, Global Association for Joyful Responsible Abundance on Earth. Cross-cultural inquiry, practical cooperation and the proposed July 2035 Past, Present and Future gathering.

Public project pages and repositories. Proposals and prototypes retain their stated development status.

30Document available

Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union submission

Hayes, Luke Nathan. Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union submission. Supporting documents and links.

Unchanged Word revision 3, edited 29 August 2026. A separate submission from the Ocean of Peace Alliance / Veitacini Treaty paper.

31Document available

Local government funding and financial sustainability

Hayes, Luke Nathan. Local government funding and fiscal sustainability submission. Supporting documents and links.

Original 11-page PDF. Added to the web edition on 22 September 2026.

32Document available

AI and data centres: shorter Senate submission

Luke Nathan Hayes. Do Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket: a federated sovereign AI and community compute proposal. Submission dated 24 August 2026 to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres.

Unchanged Word revision 3, edited 27 August 2026. This is the shorter Senate submission; earlier copies and the longer discussion draft are not included.

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Further papers, public links and reference documents can be added as they become available. Six supporting papers are available above as unchanged PDF or Word originals, including the shorter AI and data centres submission.

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