Below are the ideas that people have submitted, please vote on the ones you like. There's one vote per person, in order to keep things fair.
Matt Emery of Umina Beach in New South Wales says:
A. Invest in closed-cycle "cradle to cradle" systems - foster an infrastructure that sustains itself upon renewable energy; a 'new industrial revolution'.
B. We can be an example to the rest of the world in design, infrastructure, and social contentment. Our export will be innovation. Our innovation will be based upon advanced skills/technology and sustainability.
C. By avoiding externalities that render our government impotent in the face of global deficits i.e. offshore human capital and fossil fuels. The reliance on other economies for the good of our own gives too much (potentially destructive) power to free market forces. Australia needs to be 'light on it's feet'; ready to ricochet offshore economic crisis.
D. Offer businesses and people fresh ideas that appeal to primal instinct. Offer them sincere ideas in the form of aesthetically pleasing urban design and workplaces, vocational agencies to assist personal self actualisation through work. Give the people a goal, update the entire concept of the "The Great Australian Dream".
E. We need to facilitate a 'transient workforce', enabling workers to easily transfer between skills/jobs. Vocational agencies would help people to assuage the psychological despair that occurs from division of labour and micro-specialisation, and would allow for a more flexible and adaptable industrial system.
Matt Emery of Umina Beach in New South Wales says:
Phone Referendums: allow all citizens to (optionally) have a pin number, they dial a designated number on the telephone, listen to an issue, enter their pin number to identify themselves, and vote on the issue.
Education: Volunteer brigades of mentors and tutors - recent trials in the USA have shown enormous voluntary participation, and remarkable improvements in student grades.
Elderly Care: Provide tax cuts for people who are willing to volunteer their time to help the elderly Eg. Mowing lawns, driving them around etc.
Vocational agencies to facilitate a 'transient workforce': enable workers to easily transfer between skills/jobs - help assuage the psychological despair and poor productivity that arises from division of labour and micro-specialisation.
Closed-cycle "cradle to cradle" villages: build experimental suburbs using new technologies in ecological and economic sustainability. Put the villages into clusters and join them with trains. Invite scientists to invest their skills into the project, and then export the results as intellectual capital - export our ideas whilst preparing for a sustainable future.
Health:
- Update the food pyramid!
- Curb the advertising of junk food to kids.
- Create and promote bicycle tracks.
- Put circuit training equipment in public parks.
Incentive and Reciprocity: provide tax cuts for actions that unburden the economy i.e. tutoring students, using public transport, helping the elderly and disabled.
Finally...
We need to look at "economic growth" as a means, and not the ends for the contentment of humans. Put 'growth' into perspective; ask citizens what they really want out of life - and invest in that – a “New Industrial Revolution”.
Gail Henricks of Redfern in New South Wales says:
Hi Matt, Gail is just saying she feels that the party title freedom fighters seems a bit radical, although agrees with the centimentes of the party.
