to the
Beyond Federation
website
Beyond Federation was established, on 8 January 2002, to encourage improvements to our Constitution and system of government that will benefit Australia and all Australians.
Our aims and visions for a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable Australia, served by a "best possible" system of government, are set out in our Beyond Federation Charter.
The Beyond Federation congresses have been attended by members of all major parties. Further, some people within the Beyond Federation network are already members of existing parties.
Without detracting from such party affiliations, members of Beyond Federation have initiated an election campaign. It is very difficult to have too much democracy ! You can vote for independent Senate candidates pursuing the Abolition of States within NSW. See here
Mailing Lists
Members of the Beyond Federation network include:
individuals from across the political spectrum;
Retire all State Politicians (http://www.rasp.com.au/);
the Shed a Tier lobby group (currently no website, but you'll usually see Max Bradley, the convenor, at our conventions)
the Foundation for National Renewal (http://www.national-renewal.org.au/Links/states.html);
the Abolish States Collective (http://arachnid.apana.org.au/asc);
the Abolish State Governments! (The Community Republicans) political party and the Regional Governments Now! lobby group (http://ozventures.com.au/ASG/index.html);
the David Syme Foundation (http://www.davsym.com.au );
Republic Now! (http://www.republicnow.org/); and
a new New States advocacy group (http://www.newstates.net/).
We'd strongly encourage you to have a good look at the websites as above.
This website does not propose to repeat what is shown on the websites of our member groups, as above, rather, it shall focus upon the documentation of the Shed a Tier Congresses and the many wonderful speeches we've been privileged to receive at these Congresses. We hope this will provide an archive of constructive ideas and visions for a better Australia that will prove useful to students, researchers, policy makers and the general public.
Archive
Our previous events are archived here
We are acutely aware of the need to hold events throughout Australia, and will respond enthusiastically to any suggestions as to venues for such events.
If you'd like to suggests a venue or theme for a Beyond Federation event or become involved with our ongoing activities and contemplations in any way at all, please feel free to contact Convenors Jim Snow and Mark Drummond, at email : markld at ozemail dot com dot au ; or at 5 Loddon St, Kaleen, ACT 2617, or by phone on 02 6255 0772.
The Beyond Federation website is hosted on Arachnid, a site in the Sydney network of the Australian Public Access Network Association (APANA).
This site emphasises content. We do not use animated logos, coloured backgrounds, tinny music, frames, advertising, meta tags, cookies or other distractions.
We do our best to conserve bandwith, by avoiding non-html formatted text, and trying wherever possible to use web native html.
"Just the facts, Maam."