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Time for a New Major Party in Australia

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)

      We warmly invite you to join us.

Social relationships - not the market, or the state - should be the prism through which we assess policy. This is common sense. This is the Australian tradition. Neither Left nor Right. We warmly invite you to join us.
   

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Our Position on Preferences

The Parents Families and Carers Party aims to change the balance of power in society in favour of individuals and families.

For more than a century, political parties of both Right and Left have presided over a steady shift in power away from individual citizens towards large corporate and state institutions. Both Left and Right have become defenders of these powerful corporate, institutional and provider interests at the expense of relatively powerless individuals and families. The two old political machines (Labor and Liberal) have become instruments through which these powerful corporate, institutional and provider interests uphold and preserve their dominance over society.

For this reason, we aim to break up the dominance of these two political machines and disperse power more broadly, in parliament as in society.

In pursuit of this strategic goal, our objective in elections is to contribute towards the creation of a broad alliance that can defeat and break up the two dominant political machines. Our preference strategy is therefore threefold:

  • We will place the two major parties last and second last in every field - the ordering of the two majors in last and second last positions will vary from one electorate to another based on strategic and policy considerations. We have no ideological preference for one or other of the two major parties over the other.
     

  • We will place independents and minor parties ahead of the two majors  - the ordering of minor parties and independents will vary from one electorate to another based on strategic and policy considerations.
     

  • We will favour those independents and minor parties which reciprocate in placing the two majors last and second last - this is for the long term strategic objective of creating a broad alliance in society and parliament to disperse power as widely as possible and to break up concentrations in economic, social and political power.

 
                                      
                                                                                           The Age 28/04/2010