Australians are increasingly polarised, politicised and fed up. In a world where shared sources of meaning and belonging (like families, churches and local community organisations) have been eroded, we turn to politics as the last remaining source of meaning. 

This has a bunch of consequences: people get disillusioned with politics (pollies are all corrupt, politics doesn’t change anything); people sell their soul to politics (QAnon anyone?); and political parties politicise everything, leaving bipartisanship and a quest for the common good as pipe dreams from the past. 

This leaves us in a situation where our supposedly free-market loving government props up a dying coal industry despite proof that it contributes to a dangerously changing climate, where we lock up asylum seekers for years on end in offshore detention that costs taxpayers ridiculous amounts of money while being reprimanded by the UN for human rights violations, where we have progressive state governments pushing anti-liberal policies that make practices including prayer and conversation illegal despite significant concerns from the medical community (not to mention religious communities)...

You might agree, it’s a world gone mad.

The vision of the Common Good Party is simple:

Freedom to live from conviction. Care for the vulnerable—including asylum seekers and the unborn. Forward-thinking policies based on scientific consensus, particularly around climate change and the environment. An economy that works for Australians, including housing reform so that every Australian can own a home.

To simplify even further, it’s about responsibilities as well as rights. Love as well as liberty. 

We love Australia, and there’s so much goodness that needs preserving—from our reefs and rainforests to our families and shared cultural ideals (like the idea that “for those who've come across the seas, we’ve boundless plains to share"). 

But Australia also has some big challenges facing us, like climate change, political polarisation and an economy that increasingly serves those at the top while leaving the average Aussies behind.

And there’s so much that’s just stupid. Like who came up with the idea that conservatives should be sceptical about climate change?! (Surely this world is worth conserving). And why on earth do progressives, who love advocating for the rights of the powerless, totally abdicate care for the most-silenced group in history, unborn children?  

The Common Good hopes to be a voice of reason, compassion and conviction in this mad political world. On core policy issues, we go beyond left and right, to find policy solutions that seek the common good.

If you, like us, step up to the ballot box every four years and wish you had some better options, now’s your chance to be a part of creating one. 

If you wish you could vote pro-life for the lives of the unborn but also the lives of asylum seekers and those living in poverty, join The Common Good. If you wish you could vote for religious freedom and free speech but also for urgent climate action, join The Common Good. 

Once you’ve joined, how else can you help? 

Our immediate goal is to get 750 members in NSW by November 2021. That’s the deadline to register in order to contest the next NSW election in 2023. We also need members from all over Australia, so we can register Federally and contest elections in other states. 

Help us get there by: 

• Staying in touch: join our email list and like the Facebook page for updates
• Introducing us to your friends
• Donating, and 
• Getting involved through volunteering your time and skills.