A modern, fair movement with a focus on 21st century technology and environmental policy
VISION
To reform global political processes, enabling citizens worldwide to collaboratively implement critical policies, to achieve a harmonious global community.
MISSION
To create a new global political movement, initiated in Australia, for individuals and independent government members to spearhead.
The new political movement will bring democracy and technology into alignment. Through the exploitation of the latest information technology and social networking, citizens will participate fully in the processes of political change, to enable stable, compassionate and fair government to all.
OWL Policies
We have a BASE LOAD of policies to start the process of participation and ongoing construction. No individual on this planet knows all the answers. Only on a collaborative, participative basis can we build policies until they are sufficiently workable to enable OWL to achieve its vision. OWL will start in the cradle of Australian cyber-democracy and then spread across all nations.
The big invitation is to ask you, the wise world of individuals, (but as a group) to create and add to policies. Now!
Please build on them, refine them; the movement will grow with your input.
We will do whatever is appropriate, and legal, in selected countries to unleash a truly “alternative and realistic” political movement. It will be born; evolve, and not just survive but thrive with the enthusiastic support from a great and wise global majority.
How to suggest a change to policy
Please read the base load of policies below. Make your suggestions for refinement ON A CONSTRUCTIVE BASIS with the best wording you can put together and submit your ideas to the OWL Facebook page.
Governance
- Selection vs Election. Consider randomly selecting, like jury service, for a period of 5 years, citizens to serve as “government”. Only one term will be allowed, with minimal demographic and citizen pre-qualifications.
- Ministerial appointments to be by lot from the selected “governors”
- Gender, racial and other quotas will become unnecessary through random “governor” selection
- Compensation will be equal to preexisting salary plus allowances, expenses and annual indexing
- Parties will be irrelevant (refer George Washington’s warnings)
- Electronic plebiscites on policies of significant national importance
- Political careerism will be eliminated. So will corruption and outrageous campaign costs
- Government department heads will be by merit
- Upper House/Senate requirements will be nullified or utilise same “government” selection process
- Long term (in Australia) dissolution of state government, amalgamation of local governments
- Electronic voting
- Heads of state: no monarchies (other than symbolic)
- Consider triumvirates (three wise people) versus one head of state selected by lot from the “governors”
Economy
- Limits on “obscene” wealth
- Separation of wealth from power; especially the military
- Encouragement of philanthropy
- Raise retirement age for the healthy
- Tax religions
Law/Crime
- Incentives to shorter court cases
- Disincentives to litigation (especially civil)
- Plain language law
- Screening reviews of magistrates and judges
- Alternatives to incarceration where appropriate
- Computerised precedent allied or aligned with artificial intelligence (AI) to replace judges and magistrates
Employment
- Unemployment in balance by continual training and education for all but extreme cases of disability
- Reinforcing work by the post sixty-fivers is valuable and healthy for individuals and the economy
Censorship
- Protection of children
- Avoidance of racism
- Ban on religious, gender proselytising
- Recognition that advertising in a film does affect child modelling
- Parents to take responsibility for censorship as well as the television channels or movie promoters
Environment
- Preserve wild animals and wilderness
- Understand global warming versus climate change versus pollution
- Manage natural resources within a thousand year scenario
- Reduce world population; link to carbon trading/credits
Energy
- Review all alternatives dispassionately
- Implement multiple solutions (not either/or)
- Share resources especially creative water management and water ownership policies
- Investigate thorium based nuclear power
Health
- Reasonable contribution, with government support from all tax payers
- Centralise medical storage carried by individuals
- Closer scrutiny of medical practitioners/specialists and access to government subsidies
- More emphasis on preventative rather than curative medicine
- De-crimalise drugs
Defence and national security
- 12 months community service after leaving-school
- Community service split into several areas; military, environmental, crisis management, community
Education
- More emphasis on apprenticeships and linking of education to vocation
- Mature entry teachers and other professions
- Training to parents for child rearing
- Access to low interest loans to all people for continuing education
Planning
- Integrated national, regional and local planning
- Councillors/members of community councils to have same responsibilities as public company board directors
Immigration
- No religions prosletation to those under 18 years
- Deportation to country of origin for adult second offenders of racial violence, inciters to racial disharmony or to national disunity