Grassroots democracy needs to be encouraged.

Inequality needs to be significantly reduced.

Policies should be based on evidence rather than political ideology.

Ethics need to be reestablished in political life.

We must promote respectful behaviour rather than adversarial attacks.

The natural environment needs significantly more protection to avoid ecological collapse.

Climate change is a symptom of an even greater problem called ecological overshoot.

The political-party system continues to fail Australia and may be beyond repair.

Alternative economic theories need to be analysed and debated – the economy must serve the people, not the other way around.

Human (and non-human) rights must be strengthened and enacted in statute.

All parts of society and the economy are inextricably linked to other parts.

There is urgency for the reforms needed.