Accountability and Open Government
The Community Action Party aims to transform the ACT into an interactive, living democracy. The Party expects the ACT Government to deal with the community with integrity, openness and transparency at all times.
With a Labor-Green coalition and an ineffectual opposition, the ACT Chief Minister and Cabinet have enjoyed almost unfettered power for the last four years. The Assembly has become little more than a talking shop. Only minority government can revive effective checks and balances in the governance of the ACT.
Accountability
Community Action Party
The Community Action Party is a dynamic alliance of ACT residents, community groups and business people.
We are working to establish balanced government and to make our Capital a better and more affordable place to live.
We seek to achieve this through:
Another Good Reason to be Active in CAP
We came together to form the Community Action Party from a wide range of backgrounds and with a variety of motives: to improve the efficiency of government in the ACT; to strengthen the accountability of our elected representatives, or simply to make a difference to the way the ACT is run. Now it seems there is another reason to be politically active: it makes you feel happier! Recently published research by two university psychologists from Germany and America has confirmed Aristotle's 2,400-year-old observation that community activism fulfils a fundamental human need.
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