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4Change is a political party that will govern according to clearly defined principles - where each voice in the community is of equal value, ethical behaviour is a standard operating procedure and policies are based on the longer term.
Our goals include
- Building a new approach to the political process – shifting the culture from special interests to broader community engagement and increased participation.
- Ensuring a long term prosperous and viable future for Australia. A short term focus by politicians to win election spells disaster for the increasingly complex and urgent sustainability issues faced by the community – water shortages, food shortages, loss of biodiversity, peak oil, over consumption, rapidly increasing population and excessive green house gas production leading to climate change.
- Ethical, competent representatives who have a track record in dealing with complex problems and who by their integrity and experience
will help bring clarity to the political process .
- A party that really listens to its electorate and allows its elected members to vote according to conscience rather than following party dictates at all times i.e. a real democratic process within the parliament.
- Engaging with more and diverse sections of the community. Listening closely while working to understand the issues and the options. Developing approaches to solving problems that lead to better results.
- Restricted number of terms for Members of Parliament to attract candidates motivated not by career politics but by genuine belief and civic duty.
- Providing public funding for election campaigns so that parties are not indebted to their big funders.
- Making sustainability the guiding principle for all decision-making, bringing policy and legislative change grounded in balancing the needs of the economy, environment and community. Your Ideas
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