A Political Voice

Mad As Hell

We’re Mad as Hell that Australia has a Third World disability support system.

Millions of us are affected. It's time to make our votes count. It's time to take the Pledge.

Disability Speaks

Disability Speaks has been created to build upon the foundations achieved by Dignity for Disabled, which together with your support, helped to bring to the attention of the State Government and the broader community, the major unmet support needs for people with a disability within our State.

Centre for Civil Society

The Centre for Civil Society is a social innovation and public policy think tank for the empowerment of ordinary people.

Parents Families and Carers Party

The Parents Families and Carers Party advocates "For a kinder, gentler Australia"

Parents, families and carers are the sleeping giant in Australian politics. We are the bedrock social unit in our country, the key to social well-being, and the wellspring of personal belonging and identity. Yet we have no voice in our nation's affairs. We are unrepresented in parliaments and excluded from public decision-making. Our goal is to change this and shift the balance of power in society.

The things that matter most to us - families, neighbourhoods, caring for others, voluntary activity, self-development and the character of people, local economies, local communities - are the things that matter least to our politicians. Political parties of both Right and Left have ignored social relationships for a century in their obsession with the market and the state. Neo-liberalism on the Right (the rule of the market) and managerialism on the Left (the rule of bureaucracy) have dominated politics. Together they have corroded society, undermined personal and social responsibility, weakened community, and turned unique individuals into clients, beneficiaries, customers and labourers, detached from their relationships and communities.