Chris Curtis sent Open Labor his submission to entrench genuine democracy to the Macklin-Bracks reform enquiry. He writes: The main principle is to entrench genuine democracy throughout the party; that is, putting internal elections, preselections and policy in the hands of genuine members and affiliated unionists. That means breaking for all time the business model of the branch stackers and the factional warlords.
Chris, a former DLP member, writes “you could read the DLP rules and the ALP rules, and conclude that the ALP was more democratic because of proportional representation. In fact, the DLP was more democratic, because members were genuine, ballots were secret and people voted, for both policy and representatives, in accordance with their individual judgement, not in accordance with factional directives.”
Read more – submission to entrench genuine democracy to Macklin-Bracks – by Chris Curtis OCT 2020 [PDF 97KB]
12 steps to Labor reform – a petition from Open Labor & the Independents – Oct 2020
Chris Curtis says
Well, that was a waste of time!