Other Motions

Posted on 31 March, 2011 by Ben Aveling

To keep things moving, we’re not planning on dealing with motions or amendments from the floor on Saturday – we’ve tried it before and it doesn’t work with a large audience. But we do want to hear your ideas for new motions and for variations on our motions.
If you email your motions to ouralp[at]ouralp.net (replace [at] with @) we will put them up here so that other people can see them and, if they wish, support and endorse them.

Don’t forget, the closing date for motions for conference is 12 noon, 29th April.

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The Core Motions

Posted on 26 March, 2011 by Ben Aveling

We are asking branches and electoral councils to call for four reforms:

  1. Endorse the 2010 Review and demand it be implemented in full
  2. Direct elections for Admin, General Secretaries, Presidents
  3. Union delegates to Conference to be chosen by direct election by union members
  4. Anti branch stacking: membership fees to be paid direct to head office

If you or your branch considers there to be other, more important reforms, then please pass motions calling for those reforms.  And then post those motions here and we will publish them and those that agree will support them.  If we are all pushing in the same direction, it does not matter if we push on different points.
1. Endorse the 2010 Review and demand it be implemented in full

We endorse the findings of the 2010 National Review and demand that its Recommendations be implemented in full.

2. Direct elections for Admin, General Secretaries, Presidents

The structure of State Conference shall be changed so that the following positions are filled by postal ballot of the rank and file membership of the party and the rank and file membership of all affiliated unions, with each constituency having a 50% weighting in the final outcome:

  • President, Senior President and Junior  Vice Presidents
  • General Secretary and Assistant Secretaries
  • All elected members on the Administrative Committee

3. Union delegates to Conference to be chosen by direct election by union members

That representation at State Conference by each affiliated union shall be conditional on the union selecting its delegates to Conference by direct election by the members of the union.

4. Anti branch stacking

That all members must pay their own membership fees direct to head office. The only exception is for immediate family members under the age of eighteen. Members paying a concessional rate must provide a photocopy of their concession card with payment.

Branches and Electoral Councils that have considered these motions include:

If your branch has discussed these motions, please let us know what you decided.

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See also: ‘All the motions‘

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Rank and File and Supporter Meeting: 2nd April

Posted on 26 March, 2011 by Ben Aveling

If you are a member, ex-member, or supporter of the Labor Party, we need your help in renewing the NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party.

For too long power in our Party has been increasingly centralised in the hands of professional political operators and politicians. The role of members in both developing policy and in fighting campaigns has been continually undermined.

As a result of this trend our Party’s good name has been dragged through the mud and, worst of all, our core values of fighting for a fairer and more progressive society have been too often cast aside.

It’s time that rank and file members organise to take our Party back and renew the Labor movement from the bottom up. Together, democracy can be returned to our Party’s structure, and give our millions of supporters and volunteers a reason to believe in and contribute to the Labor Party again.

You are invited to attend a meeting of rank and file Labor Party members to be held at 1:30 for a 2pm start, Saturday April 2nd, at the Tom Mann Theatre, 136 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills.

The purpose of this meeting is to:

  1. Bring together grassroots Labor members, ex-members and supporters
  2. Endorse motions in support of greater rank and file control of the NSW ALP, including the recommendations of the 2010 federal campaign review
  3. Discuss our plan for how we will take our Party back

Together we will rebuild our Party, please come to the meeting this Saturday to help start the process.

If you have any questions, comments, or wish to endorse the motions or the meeting, comment here (ouralp.net) or facebook or email ouralp(at)ouralp.net.(Change (at) to @).

Please pass this message on.

Yours for Labor,

Glenda Gartrell, Willoughby Castlecrag branch member; Neil Reilly, Kiama Labor Councillor, President Kiama ALP Branch and Gilmore FEC; Don McGregor, Katoomba Branch President; Darcy Byrne, Leichhardt Labor Councillor; Ben Aveling, Alexandria Branch Secretary; Phil Drew, Rank and file member Leichhardt Branch; Lucille McKenna, Ashfield Labor Councillor; Ben Karalus, Leichhardt Branch President; Michael Johnston, Summer Hill Branch President; Rory O’Connell, Ashfield Branch President; Nic Wright, Willoughby Castlecrag Branch Secretary; John McCutcheon, Kiama Senior Vice President; Lyndal Howison, Leichhardt Labor Councillor; Margaret Atkin, Kuring-gai Branch member; Mark Drury, Ashfield Council and Secretary Ashfield Branch; Catherine Welch, Assistant Secretary, Alexandria Branch; Darren Whitaker, Surry Hills branch member; Chris Osborne, Swansea branch member.

If you have any questions, comments, or wish to endorse the motions or the meeting, comment here or email Sat2April@ouralp.net
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It’s our ALP

Posted on 23 March, 2011 by Ben Aveling

For too long power in the ALP has increasingly been centralised in the hands of paid political operators and politicians.

The role of members has been continually undermined.  It’s time that rank and file members organised amongst ourselves to take our Party back and renew the Labor movement.

Watch this space.

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