THE HIGH PERFORMANCE POLITICAL PARTY
The High-Performance Political Party (HP3) is a concept about creating a new progressive organisation within our political system. Progressive Australians, those who want to see us face our challenges together and maintain a healthy human society, should have a rational conversation about how to best organise ourselves in the 21st century.
This Is Not About The Next Election Cycle, It’s About The Long-Term – The Next 20, The Next 50, The Next 100 Years.
If we want Australia to have a progresive 21st century, it's in our interests to have a functional 21 century institution on our side of politics.
The author of HP3, Justin Ryan, gives a brief explanation of the HP3 concept.
The Concept
Two key aspects of our system are that it produces two options for executive government, and that the executive is drawn from the legislature. The best way to describe Australia’s current political divide is ‘progressive vs conservative’.
This means being able to see the difference between our hybrid Westminster system of government itself, and the state of the current major parties incumbent in those two positions.
The people on the progressive side are best served if we have a single open, modern, and transparent organisation with a large number of people involved, with an open meritocracy to produce leaders. This will give the organisation and its people more integrity.
It is not in our interests as progressive Australians to fracture into smaller groups or tribes. The ALP is becoming a smaller group, with many more progressives outside the tent rather than in it. The Greens are not broad enough to set themselves up to offer an alternative executive government. Independents are not capable of forming an executive.
How we choose to organise ourselves matters. It will have a tangible effect on our lives. This is much more likely to be achieved by working within our system rather than against it. A primary step is the organisational design of any new party.
The HP3 Document
The complete HP3 document can be comfortably read within a span of approximately two hours, and we highly recommend taking the time to delve into its contents. Additionally, we are pleased to inform you that the document is also conveniently available for access on Kobo and Kindle, providing an enhanced reading experience.
