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We bring people
together in each federal electorate (150 electorates around
Australia) to work locally in engaging our communities and our
representatives in a non-party, neither-left-nor-right
agenda of empowerment of ordinary people.
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SELF-DIRECTED
SERVICES AND PERSONAL BUDGETS
You can take charge of your social support, education and health
care through a personal budget.
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for further information. |
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AGM SEASON
Making a difference in our not-for-profits.
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for further information. |
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STREET BY STREET
Linking
up people who live in the same
street or nearby to build community through practical helping
tasks - on a national scale.
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for further information. |
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COMMUNITY BUILDING
NATIONAL NETWORK
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to participate in the
Network. |
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LEFT AND RIGHT?
"The Left and Right have been as bad as each other. The Left has
allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government
to obscure the importance of civil society. The Right has been
so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has
forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society.
This is the politics of the absurd. The Left identifies with the
good society but rarely talks about the mutualism and trust
between people. The Right recognises the importance of moral
obligation but gives the impression of trusting market
transactions more than civil society.
Few things seem to happen anymore
without a government law or market transaction to guide
them. This is how record levels of GDP in Australia now sit
alongside record levels of crime, social stress and family
breakdown. The political balance needs to swing back towards
civil society.
This task, in fact, requires a new type of politics."
Mark Latham, Mutualism: A Third Way for Australia," 1999.
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a small business, please send us your thoughts on how we can support
small businesses through our |
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If you
are caring for an ill or disabled family member at home, please click
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Family CarERS SURVEY |
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Charter for Action on
Disability
People
Power in Victoria will run a major campaign in support of people with
disabilities and their families until the next Victorian
state election in November 2006.
The
campaign will be based around our Charter for Action on Disability. CLICK
HERE to read the text of the 10 point Charter.
CLICK HERE to download a copy in .pdf format. (NOTE: you will
need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the .pdf file. CLICK
HERE to download a free copy.)
People
Power will allocate its preferences in the next state election according to how
the Victorian Government and other political parties measure up on the 10 points
in this Charter.
Our
message is that disability and carer issues will be ignored by political parties
at their peril in the next Victorian
election.
HOW
TO BECOME INVOLVED
Simply
fill in the online form (below). There are 88 lower house electorates in
Victoria: select the name of your electorate from the drop-down menu.
In each electorate we will appoint a Charter for Action on Disability
campaign co-ordinator. We will aim to get each MP to push
for implementation of the Charter, and we will monitor the efforts of each MP in
doing so (as well as their parties).
When you fill in the form, consider offering to co-ordinate the campaign in your
electorate. This will involve working with others in your electorate to
communicate to your MP (and your community) that disability and carer issues are
important enough to determine the
outcome of the election.
Our
target is 100
people in each of the 88 electorates playing a role. That would be 8,800 people
– which is a fair bit of People Power.
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Comments
on the Charter and the campaign are welcome and should be sent to Vern Hughes by
email
or on 03 9326 4481.
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
CLICK HERE for
details of our campaign for a Real Education Revolution.
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for
info on the National
Federation of Parents, Families and Carers. |
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STREET BY STREET
Information Workshops
Brisbane 1 September Sydney 3 September
Melbourne 10 September
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CORPORATE
WELFARE WATCH
Latest Handout Tally
$6.4b Car manufacturers subsidies
$2b Commercial property construction industry
$3.9b Free emission permits to coal-fired electricity generators
$2b Car dealer finance guarantee
$149m GMH 4 cylinder car
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for further information. |
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THIRD WAY FORUM
Communitarianism,
Mutualism, Third Way Thinking
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to find out more. |
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MAKING IT PERSONAL
Charlie Leadbeater, Jamie
Bartlett and Niamh Gallagher have authored this highly
influential Demos Report on Self-Directed Services
and Personal Budgets.
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to read
Making It Personal. |
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RESPECT
EMPOWER
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Participate in our five-point
non-party-political campaign to empower ordinary people.
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Family Carers
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There are 2.7million
family carers of people with a disability, a chronic or mental
illness, or aged frailty in Australia. They are invisible to
politicians and policy makers.
Read more... |
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Standing Up to Telstra and
the Big Four Banks |
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Help us create a
voice for consumers. Read more... |
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sets of links - one at the top of each page; and a second on the
left hand side.
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Society - including an overview of our current
CAMPAIGNS
and
POLICIES
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