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Just two things. ALP stands for union thuggery.

Which brings as to the second thing. Is it at all possible for you (& Mr Awesome) to come up with something more original to eAustralia than the Labour (& Liberal) parties. Heck why not look at party names in other countries or look at our own history.

Signed : Australian Warlord

Thanks for your feedback Mate. Is appreciated. ALP is MY choice and will pursue it as aligns to my RL aspirations. People will join or not, time will tell.

@AW: The word "union" is mentioned nowhere on the article. Check for yourself, you're the one to mention it, not Stew.

And as for a "original" party name, the way I see it is this: A party should have a name that reflects on the values of the party, this makes it easier for players looking for a party to find one to join. That being said, they should be able to call it whatever they want, it's their party 😛

@Stew: As it's also been mentioned on the forums, I think I should mention it here as well (just so everybody can see it 😉 ). What makes your party really different from all the rest of them? It seems to me (and Iwarrior1, the one to bring up this topic) that these values seem to be "common ground" among all the parties in eAus, so what makes the ALP any different?

"Our families are the bedrock of our communities
which we need to nurture, protect and support."

We have families in eRep?

Are you going to allow same-sex marriage?

Pre😛 I believe we have families. I consider people who help me in Eureka part of my extended family and also Alias136, Bobius and Maverick Goh are like my brothers as we joined around the sametime and grew up together in the Game. Corny Ratbag could also be considered my eRep Father as took me under his wing at the beginning.

As to same sex marriage I am all for it. Love is Love.

DA: What makes us different? Well as to the platform yes it is common ground that I hope most Political Parties would aspire to. What will make us different will be how we go about achieving these ideals. Our party will have a very strict structure and code of conduct for our members. We will also have clear roles and responsibilities for the senior members within the party. We will release more in our forum on the details once it is available.

We will also release our policies for public comment and hold some commmunity focus groups. We also plan to engage charity orgs like AuseAid and The Smith Family to have input into our policies.

@Derek : I was attempting to illustrate a point. When you take the name of a real, prominent party operating in RL Australia, you're going to massively reduce the number of potential members, both with people who don't like the real world version & also those who won't associate themselves with a real world party. Plus if you do something differently to the real world version, the few that would join could well be offended.
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Personally I can tell you that if I wanted to join a real world party, I'd join it. I have a decent opinion of Stew but putting a real world prominent name there is something I couldn't align myself with.
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Finally putting real world prominent names to parties risks sending more real world problems here. We have enough of the Serb vs Croat, 3rd World vs USA, Nthn Ireland Catholics vs GB etc here. I can't see anything good coming out from using either Labour (ALP) or Liberal here.


Btw : Same gender issues etc have no importance in this game.

Signed : Australian Warlord

I Agree with DA. This is practically what all other parties represent. Would you mind emphasising what you have that is different then others?

AL: You have some very good points , yes there is a risk of bring real life prejudices into the game. VP and I thought about that and we know it is going to be a challenge. However we want to try it and actually hoping we can show how in the game we can be more successful then the RL version. Still hold to the same beliefs but approach our members a bit differently and with more young people joining the party hopefully tap into different idea's of what ALP SHOULD be. Remember game is about experimenting. If we succeed or fail in the senate or CP it is not the point , the reason we are doing it is to understand better our own beliefs and how we turn policies from TALK to ACTION.

Broa😛 Read the comments under Pred's. Additionally the other PARTY's do OFFER the similar views. Our big difference will be more around our DELIVERY of the ideals. More detail to be release soon.

The ALP stands for democracy, fairness, equal rights, and everyones opinion for the betterment of our country, Australia, to fight for these things as a collective body where everyone is involved, and all have their share, not just the tiny group of individuals, or the individual, which deal with Australia.

Stewart has said it perfectly. We are different from other parties because we will voice loud and clear what our stance is, we will act on it, we will listen to everyones opinion and move Australia forward, through many mediums. This is e-republik we are, an organisation that will always fight for democratic representation of everyones ideas and everyones opinion. Many parties in e-Australia fail any standard of democracy, and if that is acceptable in the creation of a better e-Australia, then god save the queen (literally).

I hope the ALP stands up for the workers!

I hope it shall defend the Australian way!

I hope it shall maintain the tradition of smoko's, sickies, strikes for 'safety breaches', the right to wear wife-beaters to work, wolf-whistle any female walking past a construction site, direct promotion from ACTU president to the Labor Ministry, and of course the right to call strike-breakers "scabs!"

Hear, hear!

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