New Australia

About

Green Tax Shift + No Population Growth + More Transport & Health + Cost Effective Defence

Purpose

The key objectives of NewAustralia are to:

Shift tax from 'Good' to 'Bads' - a major shift to eco-taxation.

Stop population growth.

Shift spending from road to rail.

Shift spending from defence to education while improving Australia's self-defence capability.

Increase housing affordability.

Shift spending from private health to public health.

Reduce the current account deficit.

Unlike the Greens we believe Austrlia's problems can be fixed without increasing taxes and spending - all we need to do is shift existing levels of taxing and spending to produce better environmental and social outcomes.

NewAustralia versus Existing Parties

NewAustralia is different. We have strong environmental policies as well as sound defence and economic policies.

The Greens	NewAustralia	Lib/Labs

Green Tax Increase Very High Immigration No defence policy Large Spending Increase Untargeted Welfare Climate Change Believers	Green Tax Shift Genuine Refugees Only Cost-effective Self Defence Green Spending Shift Adequate Targeted Welfare Climate Change Believers	Fossil Industry Subsidies High Immigration High military spending Current Spending Inadequate Targeted Welfare Climate Sceptics / Do Little
Hardcore Green vote - 10%	Other Green vote - 20% (?)	The Rest of the vote
Preferences to other environmental parties.	Preferences to other environmental parties.

Members & Contributors

The current members & contributors are or were members of the Greens or the Democrats who were not satisfied with the policies and/or platform of those parties. Most do not want to resign from the Greens or Democrats until they see if NewAustralia can gets off the ground.

Membership is free, although if the party contest an election donations would be sought from members.

Executive

Name	E-mail	SMS
Alan Ide	Alan.Ide@NewAustralia.net (Holidays: Jan 15 - Jan 29)	04 1853 0006 (Text only please).
Ralph Bennett	Ralph.Bennett@NewAustralia.net
Gregary Boyles	Greg.Boyles@NewAustralia.net

Electoral Strategy

To contest the 2010 Federal election in a meaningful way NewAustralia would need:

This web site: Work is needed on most policies - some are completely missing.
Registration: To get NewAustralia.net on the ballots requires 500 members, a constitution, etc.
150 Candidates: Each candidate would need to be prepared to outlay several thousand dollars for a potentially refundable deposit and other expenses plus meet section 44 requirements.
A leaflet: To most households - funded by advertising for solar panels, water tanks, etc. on the reverse side.
Placards: As we would not have the ~50 volunteers per electorate needed to hand out how -to-vote cards we would need to have large placards at every booth.

Mission Impossible?

Its true that it is hard to get a new party started.

However, all the 'First Steps' (above) are pretty much cost and risk free - so we may as well give it a shot. If it doesn't work out members could support The Greens or some other environmental / progressive party at the 2010 election.

Changing NewAustralia Policies

If you want to add, change or delete NewAustralia policies:

Join the party by clicking above button.
Join the Supporters Forum.
Submit your ideas to that forum for debate and comment.

Note that the party founder retains the right to veto drastic policy changes that would change the whole purpose of the party. (This is necessary as otherwise it would be easy for a hostile group to take over the party and change all the policies.)

The NewAustralia Constitution

Click here to download an outline of some key features to be included in the constitution.

The GetPolitcal Campaign

This campaign aims to build support for the pro-environment parties ahead of the next election.

If you represent a group that supports environmental action please consider adding something like TimeToGetPolitical.html to your site.

A Brief History of NewAustralia

NewAustralia was founded following the collapse of the Democrats at the last election. Some NewAustralia members and in particular the founder had tried hard to steer The Democrats in the direction now adopted by this site. After the election we resolved to use the accumulated policy material to try and launch a new party.

Join NewAustralia

We need 500 members before we can register as a political party.

(Note: The above button signs you up from the e-mail address for this PC. If you are using web-mail, send an email to NewAustraliaMembers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.au from your web-mail account.)