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The big teal / Simon Holmes à Court.

The big teal / Simon Holmes à Court.
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ISBN 9781922633569 (paperback)
Name Holmes à Court, Simon author.
Title The big teal / Simon Holmes à Court.
Published Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2022.
©2022
Description 91 pages ; 18 cm.
Summary The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes a Court. As Australia entered its lost decade on climate action, he observed that conventional advocacy had become a case of diminishing returns, and that Cathy McGowan's election as a community independent in 2013 provided a template for direct political engagement. The result was Climate 200, a crowdfunded outfit intended to provide the money and expertise to better match the major parties and turbocharge the grassroots movement emerging in thirty-plus electorates. Despite a relentless and increasingly shrill campaign of vilification aimed at Holmes a Court and the candidates by the Liberals, assisted by their media mates, we saw the election of six new community independent MPs and one senator. It was a victory of facts over fear, priorities over prejudice. It was a blow to the unfit-for-purpose 'majoritariat', a rejection of the false binary choice between parties that no longer reflect the hopes and complexity of modern democratic Australia.
Subjects Holmes à Court, Simon
Australia. -- Parliament -- Elections -- 2022.
Australia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Series In the national interest
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