Archive for September 7th, 2016
Will the Chinese whispers become a roar?
Posted by John, September 7th, 2016 - under Political donations, Politicians, Sam Dastyari.
Comments: 1
I know the ALP is not going to do a Corbyn or a Sanders and electrify a mass base with pro-people policies and get them to fund its activities with small donations. Certainly a ban allowing only small donations is not going to change a party whose 33 years of neoliberalism are ingrained into its soul and parliamentary representatives. The ALP is not going to democratise and give power to its members because those members are, like the rest of Australian society, by and large well to the left of politicians. The task is to build a new politics, a politics that puts people first. That is what I am trying to do.