Major political parties in Australia are avoiding many issues, and lack imagination and foresight. We are the only political party (fantasy or otherwise) to have these policies:
- Rewarding job-seekers for their successes, rather than punishing them for their failings
- Permanent political promises – no ifs, buts or reversals (populist)
- More of a peace-keeping, militia and specialist military model, with fewer full-time soldiers
- Non-binding, electronic referendums where suitable
- Publicly owned utilities – and a bank (populist)
- Decreasing the use of antibiotics
- Living wage for artists
- 5 year rent contracts (and no more negative gearing)
- Ending phone spam (populist)
- Free home insurance (populist)
- Capped CGT exemptions on residences (populist)
- 4 day work week
- A royal commission on the treatment and place of kangaroos, our national icon
As a futurist, I acknowledge that my ideas might be ahead of their time. I would expect that many of these will become reality one day, but it might take a while. But some are hard to argue against and would have popular appeal with many having little costs involved to implement (even a publicly-owned bank would be profitable).