The big teal
Holmes à Court, Simon2022
Book
The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes a Court. As Australia entered its lost decade on climate action, he observed that conventional advocacy had become a case of diminishing returns, and that Cathy McGowan's election as a community independent in 2013 provided a template for direct political engagement. The result was Climate 200, a crowdfunded outfit intended to provide the money and expertise to better match the major parties and turbocharge the grassroots movement emerging in thirty-plus electorates. Despite a relentless and increasingly shrill campaign of vilification aimed at Holmes a Court and the candidates by the Liberals, assisted by their media mates, we saw the election of six new community independent MPs and one senator. It was a victory of facts over fear, priorities over prejudice. It was a blow to the unfit-for-purpose 'majoritariat', a rejection of the false binary choice between parties that no longer reflect the hopes and complexity of modern democratic Australia.
Main title:
The big teal / Simon Holmes à Court.
Author:
Holmes à Court, Simon, author
Work:
Imprint:
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2022.©2022
Collation:
91 pages ; 18 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781922633569 (pbk)9781922633569 (paperback)
Dewey class:
324.994320.994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
745171
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