User:Proberton/sandbox8

History

Foundation ( which our writer Jen has already pretty much done for the about pages on the website, just needs referencing and some work to take the promotional sheen off it.)

Early years: 1977-1983

The Balance of Power: 1983-1996 (none of this in the current wiki page)

Compromises and Personalities: 1996 -2002 (the Cheryl + IR, Meg +GST, NSD era – struggled to come up with an appropriate title but we’ll work on it!)

The Great Unhappiness: 2002-2009 (Crash and burn...)

Rebuilding: 2009 – (this will be easy to write, getting independent references will be hard)

Party structure and organisation

Ideology, principles and themes

Honesty, Compassion, Tolerance (original principles, still underlying all other activity)

‘Keeping the Bastards Honest’ ‘The Middle Road’ ‘The People’s Voice’ 5 Core Beliefs (recent repackaging of long held priorities)

Party Objectives (started as 10, now the 23 Objectives)

Policy and Positions

Policy development (Literally the process, changes in the process over time)

Original Environmental Party (Lift from the 30 years book?)

Social Justice

Proactive and Preventative (Preventative health etc)

Controversial policies and positions (GST, Euthanasia, etc)

Legislative Achievements

(already done this for the website, can probably lift it and just tone it down to a matter of fact thing, include the achievements cut out for brevity etc, link to actual legislation)

Support

‘The thinking voter’

Progressive liberals

Protest voters

Women

Christian left

Youth

Electoral Success

Federal Elections

State Elections

Leaders, Senators, State Members, References we can pretty much leave (except of course the reference list will blow out considerably).