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Better Branches Documents
We've started to collect together documents relating to Better Branches. Our very warm thanks to the members of the Ararat ALP branch for allowing us to make the following available. The files are all in Microsoft Word format.
The Camperdown branch in NSW has compiled and adopted a plan for an organised pursuit of policy discussion by its members:
Policy focus areas at branch level
Speeches, policies and documents from 100 years of the ALP
| 2005 |
Labor's Malaise and What to Do About It: Mending the ALP Hon Dr Race Mathews |
| 2005 |
Labor can win if it tackles cultural and structural problems Barry Jones |
| 2002 |
ALP National Committee of Review, Bob Hawke & Neville Wran (2,496k) |
| 1998 |
Address to the Victorian ALP Conference, Mark Dreyfus |
| 1998 |
Australian Labor Party Victorian Branch Panel Of Review 1998, Mark Dreyfus ( |
| 1994 |
Innaugural Speech, Mark Latham (42k) |
| 1992 |
Redfern Park Speech December 1992, Paul Keating (22k) |
| 1983 |
Labor Day Speech March 1983, Bob Hawke (199k) |
| 1980 |
Innaugural Speech, Kim Beazley (31k) |
| 1979 |
ALP National Committee of Inquiry (2,635k) |
| 1979 |
ALP National Committee of Inquiry, Discussion Papers (4,153k) |
| 1970 |
Report of the Advisory Council on Reconstruction of the ALP (Victorian Branch) (3,721k) |
| 1966 |
What is to be done?, Race Mathews (119k) |
| 1965 |
Australian Labor Party Re-Organisation, Cyril Wyndham (2,190k) |
| 1953 |
Innaugural Speech, Gough Whitlam (46k) |
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Progressive Essays 2005
| Craig Emerson |
New thinking for a new century. Getting our priorities right in income tax reform (63k)
Paul Keating remarked in the early 1990s that every parrot in the pet shop was squawking micro-economic reform. Now, just five years after the Howard government gave Australia what it boasted to be ‘a new tax system for a new century’, every parrot in the pet shop is squawking tax reform. But unless the chorus of squawking is accompanied by verses about where spending should be cut, the call for tax reform will never be more than a cacophony of sound.
What does Labor stand for in the 21st century (63k)
For the first time since the change of government nine years ago there is a genuine market for national public policy ideas. It began forming in late 2004 with the release of a series of official reports warning of constraints on continued economic growth. |
| Nicholas Gruen |
Designed defaults (94k)
The implementation of the deregulatory wave of microeconomic reform is largely complete. There’s still room for further worthwhile deregulation for instance in the postal, taxi, pharmacy and newsagency industries and agricultural marketing and the traditional professions. But just listing them illustrates their relative unimportance. As Ross Garnaut explained to some Senators recently ‘Whereas we could make a lot of headway with hits over the boundary in the eighties, now we have to get them in singles’. |
| Rodney Hall |
Arts Policy (105k)
The coalition government has delivered us a society fixated on putting money values to everything, a society looking backward to an irretrievable past for its cultural values, a society in which selfishness is paraded as a virtue. |
| Andrew Leigh |
A Progressive Case for Educational Reform (32k)
In the field of primary and secondary education, progressives in Australia have generally adopted a conservative approach to reform. This would be entirely justifiable if our schools were performing well. But troubling new evidence suggests that literacy and numeracy scores have stagnated or fallen since the 1970s – despite a doubling of resources. |
| Bob McMullan |
Australian indigenous development goals (142k)
It is time that we, as a nation, focused on the need to achieve better outcomes for our most disadvantaged citizens as the international community has done. |
| Dave Peebles |
Marketing the ALP (61k)
This essay discusses how the ALP must market itself better in order to win the next federal election. The intention is not to suggest that the ALP treat all Australian citizens simply as consumers and somehow win them over through clever advertising (or that marketing critical policies that can change people’s lives is the equivalent of selling soap suds). |
| Don Russell |
The Role of private property (52k)
Many of my experiences as Ambassador in Washington left a lasting impression but one that stands out is a lunch I had for a distinguished group of Native American leaders. |
International
| 2003 |
A Future Fair for All. (3 Mb) Big issues need a big conversation. Launched at the British Labour Party's National Policy Forum in November 2003 |
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