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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 an agenda of empowerment of ordinary people
and strengthening of civil society.
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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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Respect.
Empower. Include.
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Welcome to
Respect. Empower. Include.
We hope you will sign up and become involved.
There is no cost. Participants will
gather in each of our 150 federal
electorates and work together, online and in groups, to secure their
federal MP's support for our agenda of respect,
empowerment, and inclusion.
Respect. Empower. Include.
aims to bring together Australians from
diverse social and political backgrounds. We want to
engage each other, our representatives, and our communities in an agenda of
empowerment of ordinary people. It is a
non-party, neither-left-nor-right agenda.
All we ask is that you abide by our Code of
Conduct and indicate your acceptance of our
5 point Platform.
On
registering, participants will be connected to an online forum in their
electorate, and will receive access to resources and guidelines for local
activity.
In each electorate we will appoint a Convenor. When you register, consider offering to
act as a Convenor in your electorate. This will involve convening activities and
initiatives, and being a contact person locally. Convenors will be connected to
an online Convenors Forum.
CLICK HERE to register.
Platform
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We can help
ourselves
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self-help and
mutual aid are important in recovery from addictions, mental
illness, indigenous dysfunction, natural
disasters, social isolation, and rural decline;
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We can
make decisions
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self-directed services and personal budgets
are the next step in empowering people in
social support, health and education;
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We can share
in ownership
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capitalisation of ordinary Australians -
enabling all of us to be owners not wage or
pension serfs - is the
key to equity and prosperity;
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We can shape
our economy
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we need a re-localisation of economics, a break-up of
corporate cartels, an end to corporate welfare,
and a re-moralisation of markets;
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We can
change our politics
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the introduction of a living
allowance
instead of a salary for politicians will clean
out our parliaments and attract a
new breed of representative motivated by service
to community rather than career.
The benchmark for success is very simple. When your federal
MP can declare their public support for this agenda, we will have
scored a goal. There are 150 to score, and we will keep
a tally.
Code of Conduct
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We welcome
diversity of opinion with civility
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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.
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We welcome
diversity in ethnicity and religious allegiance
with tolerance
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members of all ethnic backgrounds and religious
groups are welcome, on the
understanding that proselytising or
recruiting for external political or religious
organisations is not permitted. Offenders will
forfeit their right to participate.
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We will
develop leadership without ego
- members 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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Note: The Centre for Civil Society retains
the right to approve participants in
Respect. Empower. Include.
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
CLICK HERE for
details of our campaign for a Real Education Revolution.
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PARENTS FAMILIES AND
CARERS
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for
info on the National
Federation of Parents, Families and Carers. |
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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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THIRD WAY FORUM
Communitarianism,
Mutualism, Third Way Thinking
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to find out more. |
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Family Carers
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.
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