[Pil-pc-oceania] permaculture political party

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Note this is a personal opinion from Maureen 
Corbett (who works at Holmgren Design Services). 
My instinct is that the suggestion to start a 
Political Party would need about a year or two of 
thinking and discussion time and is definitely 
not a good idea if the aim is the next Federal 
Election. Because of our preferencial voting 
system setting up another smaller party can split 
the environmental vote and confuse voters. The 
bigger parties use this to their benefit but I 
don't think it would work that way for us. We 
could however have a Permaculture lobby group 
that publishes candidate answers to a list of 
pointed questions.... which is circulated as far 
as possible but at least to the email contacts of 
all permaculturalists.
Ciao
Maureen
>I find the precautionary emails about this are most valid.
>
>Permaculturists would achieve a lot more by focussing on a good marketing
>and promotion strategy to get permaculture solutions out to the world than
>by setting up yet another political party.
>
>As John said, we simply don't have the infrastructure to organise such an
>enterprise and I think the efforts spend in such a futile endeavour could be
>better invested for greater impact. I'm concerned it would only fragment our
>energies and could potentially lose more support than we gain.
>
>A new documentary like a permaculture equivalent to End of Suburbia, Future
>of Food and other DVD's coming out in recent years  would serve the movement
>and the planet well (it's over 15 years since Global Gardener). Streaming
>lots of short permaculture videos on the internet would also get a lot of
>people thinking and instigating solutions in their own lives and
>communities.
>
>Ciao
>Robyn
>
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