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About Us
Strategy for change
Our aim is to activate, strengthen and unite all the organisations and individuals
committed to a new direction for Australian politics. This is the way to build a
movement capable of challenging the real controllers of economic and political power
in our country - the big corporations. This is the way to change the direction of
Australia's political life.
Our aim is to strengthen each struggle by bringing together all groups and
individuals involved, preferably in a coalition.
People will be empowered when they are united in action. They become enthusiastic and
confident.
In Australia today, no one political party has enough support to form an alternative
government at Federal, State or local Council level. No one party or group represents
all progressive and democratic opinions.
That is why coalitions and other forms of co-operation such as an exchange of
preferences and common platforms are especially important at election times.
Parliaments have an important place in the whole process of the struggle to advance
the interests of the people - but only if work in parliaments is linked to the
struggle by the people outside parliament. Building the mass movements into a strong,
united, militant force is fundamental for real change.
The present two-party system, in which government is alternately shared between the
Liberal-National Party Coalition and the Australian Labor Party, is not serving the
people.
The emergence of alternative and independent political forces in various parliaments,
who see the importance of fighting for the rights and interests of the ordinary
people of Australia and against the forces of economic rationalism, shows that things
are changing. Australia does not have to be condemned forever to the old two-party
system.
To break the two-party system of government, we have to increase the number of
progressive, "people's parliamentarians". Our aim is for a left and progressive
people's coalition to win government.
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