Founding Thoughts

Our founder believes that it is wise to support the following behavioural changes:

• Responsibilities are just as important as rights and need to be actively encouraged...

• Community is just as important as individuality and needs to be actively encouraged...

• Support for a strong economy is important to sustain community services and welfare assistance...

• Support for progressive taxes is important to sustain community services and welfare assistance...

• Support for fair voting** is important to maximise public engagement with elections and politics...

• Support for policies encouraging good behaviours and/or discouraging bad behaviours is important...

• Respect for faiths encouraging good behaviours and/or discouraging bad behaviours is important...

Tim Hall (Christian founder of this initiative)

** Our founder prefers Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting (used in Germany and New Zealand etc.) that provides each voter with 2 votes (one vote for a constituency MP decided by first past the post and one vote for a political party that selects list MP's from their party lists according to each parties national share of party votes). MMP is easy for voters to engage with and voters have a much greater sense that their views are being considered (their party vote influences the selection of list MP's even if their constituency MP is not from their preferred party). To make way for so called list MP's (making up say half the total number of MP's) constituencies simply tend to be about twice the size of constituencies under first past the post (FPTP) voting. MMP voting is widely considered to be more fair than 100% FPTP voting.