Miles Whiticker is a polymath from Sydney. He has been part of the community scene in Queensland and a political Pirate for the past 10 years, supporting science and evidence based causes with a preference for community engagement and volunteering. Since 2024, he has relocated to Sydney to work as a software engineer in the burgeoning AI industry, and has periodically worked in San Francisco and the US as part of his current role.
My theory of change is that people power can ultimately transform the world. I’m a metamodernist who advocates for process based politics rather than ideology. I’m running for NSW senator on behalf of Fusion Party in the Federal Election 2025.
I have been politically active in one way or another since I was in high school, and have been through almost too many political reawakenings to count. My first great political awakening was discovering Pirate Party politics in about 2009. Early inspirations there were the Rick Falkvinge blog posts on the “Pirate Wheel” and Swarmwise Organising.
My second political awakening was an extended period of political discovery in my early 20s which began with Occupy Brisbane and culminated around 2016-2018 with the Social Ecology writings by Murray Bookchin.
My third political awakening happened over 2019-2021 during the foundation of Fusion Party. Metamodern political parties, of which I have been developing Fusion party towards, aim to integrate the best aspects of modern and postmodern political thought, balancing rational progress with emotional development and cultural sensitivity. These parties embrace complexity, emphasizing developmental politics that focus on psychological growth, governance adaptability, and long-term societal evolution. They prioritize sustainability, participatory democracy, and systemic thinking while avoiding rigid ideologies. Metamodern parties also recognize the importance of personal development and meaning-making, advocating for policies that nurture citizens' emotional and intellectual capacities. Their approach is both pragmatic and visionary, using irony and sincerity in tandem to navigate political challenges with a dynamic and evolving perspective.
Today, rather than focussing on specific policies, my preference is to engage in whole-of-system change towards a more process oriented mindset. In the past I have advocated for positions such as individual privacy, copyright reform, government transparency, whistleblower protections, drug law reform and democratic initiatives such as citizen’s assemblies and citizen initiated referenda.