A Fair Go For All
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Coral Rizzalli President

 





Joanne Stuart
Convenor

 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.

 
NSW State Election Candidates - Expression of Interest 

Use the form below to express your interest in standing as a candidate in the NSW state election on 26 March 2011.

A Fair Go For All will stand a team of fifteen candidates in the NSW Upper House (fifteen is the minimum number required to register as a group). Twenty one people will be elected by proportional representation, which means that a quota of 4.22% is needed for each elected person. In past elections, parties have won a quota with as little as 1.5% of the primary vote.

Paul Oglesby will head our team for the Upper House [photo: below].

Fifteen candidates are sought who will make a serious bid for election as part of our team.

People with an interest in being candidates should be able to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Demonstrate a motivation that is not about ego or self-promotion but is about advancing social change and empowerment of parents, families and carers and other voiceless Australians;

2. Be able to support and promote the policies and philosophy of A Fair Go For All.

3. Demonstrate an ability as a self-starter and a capacity to work in a team.

Use this form to submit your expression of interest.

We are also interested in supporting candidates in lower house seats who want to contribute to changing the political culture in NSW.

Please feel free to also send background material about yourself, papers you have written, or a CV if you wish. Please forward these to:

Joanne Stuart
PO Box 159
Yarraville Vic 3013
joanne@civilsociety.org.au

 

Expression of Interest - NSW State Election Candidate
 

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  I would like to express an interest in standing as a candidate.
 

  I have read the 12 Reasons ... declaration and indicate (with a tick) my acceptance of it.


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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  I have read the Code of Conduct and indicate (with a tick) my acceptance of it.


   I am not a member of any other political party (please tick to declare your status)
 

If you have previously been a member of another political party, tell us about it.



Tell us about yourself and how you meet the following three criteria:


                                                   1. Demonstrate a motivation that is not about ego or self-promotion but is about advancing social
                                                       change and empowerment of parents, families and carers and other voiceless Australians;

                                                   2. Be able to support and promote the policies and philosophy of A Fair Go For All;

                                                   3. Demonstrate an ability as a self-starter and a capacity to work in a team.