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Joanne Stuart

 We are a political movement of everyday Australians aiming to represent and empower grassroots people and communities in Australian life, including:

  • families (the foundation of society but unrepresented by any broad, mainstream organisation)

  • small businesses and independent owners (the backbone of our economy and employment but ignored by governments)

  • consumers (the least organised and least vocal component of our economy)

  • people with disabilities, chronic and mental illnesses and their families/carers (the most invisible and vulnerable Australians)

  • the aged (the carriers of our accumulated wisdom but regarded as redundant and unproductive in our culture)

  • volunteers in communities (the glue in society but unrepresented in any of our halls of power)

  • individuals and communities who practice self-help (whose voices are rarely heard in public life)

Both Left and Right have ignored everyday people and social relationships in their obsession with the market and the state. Social relationships - not the market or the state - should be the prism through which we assess policy and determine the public good. This is common sense. This is the Australian tradition.
 
Our Code of Conduct

 Members of People Power are expected to uphold the following Code of Conduct:
 

  • We welcome diversity of opinion with civility - open discussion and exchange of views in a respectful and courteous manner is required of members. Interactions which are not respectful and courteous will not be permitted, and offenders will forfeit their right to participate.
     

  • We welcome diversity in ethnicity and religious allegiance with tolerance - members of all ethnic backgrounds and religious groups  are welcome, on the understanding that proselytising or recruiting for external organisations is not permitted. Offenders will forfeit their right to participate.
     

  • We will develop leadership without ego - participants are invited to bring commitment and character, but are requested to leave their egos at home. Offenders will forfeit their right to participate.
     

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