Community Alliance Party

The Community Alliance Party will be one year old on 12 June, the anniversary of its formal registration as a political party in the ACT.

Although it did not gain a seat in the 2008 ACT elections, the Community Alliance continues to see itself as a viable political force in the ACT with the role of a sentinel concerning policies and activities of the political parties in the ACT Assembly.

At its recent membership meeting, the Community Alliance renewed its resolve to monitor  the decisions of the minority Labor government and its interaction with its “life-support”,  the Greens, whose leader has finally admitted what the Greens had continually denied throughout the ACT elections, that the “Greens policy objectives and Labor policy objectives are not too far apart.”  The Community Alliance deplores the deceit that the Greens deliberately played upon an ACT electorate that was looking for an alternative to a tired but arrogant Labor government.

The citizens of the ACT now have to endure the Greens attempts to force through their petty whims, with the backing of ACT Labor, in order to dictate the behaviour of Canberrans. The Community Alliance will oppose Green attempts to micro-manage Canberrans and foist on them impractical, ideological and costly proposals dictated from Green Central.

The Community Alliance will continue to keep the wider public informed of its policies and assessments of the performance of the Labor/Green alliance notably through its webpage, newsletter to its 300 members and party meetings.

Recently, at the invitation of the Select Committee on Campaign Advertising, the Community Alliance put forward a submission.  The Community Alliance was glad to accept the invitation not only as an ACT political party but because of the many questions about the ALP’s use of government funds for advertising to promote its election campaign.  The Community Alliance would like to see some rules defined and accepted to clarify funding sources for future ACT elections.

The Community Alliance Party has defined over 30 policies. They are on this website for all to examine. Notable among them is the policy on government accountability.

Canberrans know, and many resent, the almost unfettered “rule” of the ALP in Canberra.  The Community Alliance wants to restore effective checks and balances in decision-making and thus avoid classic pieces of arrogance such as that by Planning Minister Barr abetted by Health Minister Gallagher to prevent community consultation about plans for a nine storey car park at Canberra Hospital so as to avoid criticism by some undefined opponents of the scheme. It may have been just possible that some Canberrans could have made constructive suggestions that might have enhanced the proposal or saved public money.

ACT residents will be hearing more from the Community Alliance Party as it grows and prepares for the ACT elections of 2012.