Issue:
 
Should we keep politics out of what we are doing? Or is politics cenbtral to what we are doing?
 
Resolution:
 
This issue arose out of the use of the term 'politics' to mean different things: One meaning: petty partisan or tribal struggles for power. (In this case 'politics' is a pain in the bum.) Another meaning: the social process for working through
conflicts and differences of opinion or interests. (In this case 'politics' is central and essential to what we are doing.
 
We agree that we won't affiliate or attach our activities to any political tribe (Libs, Greens, Labor, Nats, Democracts, etc. etc. etc.) But we actively seek out courageous community-minded people from across the whole party-political spectrum (or who are not party affilaited) - thus recognising civic courage where ever it can be found - even if it is in what any one of us might think is the most unlikely of places!!!