Australian Hemp Party - Political organisation to re legalise and regulate cannabis for personal, medical and industrial uses in AUSTRALIA.
It is a natural consequence of Prohibition that many cannabis users are alarmed by official contact, and some move about without leaving forwarding addresses at Post Offices.
That is why we ask that you only become a member if you are settled and brave enough to reply to a registered letter or phone call from the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission), saying "Yes I am."
- If you can say "Yes, I am.", then "Yes We Can" make a difference.
- If you are contacted by the AEC please confirm your membership promptly.
Please don't join the HEMP Party unless you are willing to confirm your membership to AEC officials on the phone.
If you are unfindable or unwilling to confirm membership, don't join, because it stuffs it up for the rest of us. Sorry, but that's how it works. Give us as many ways to contact you as possible to make it easier to confirm your membership with the AEC.
LETS DO IT!
Help End Marijuana Prohibition.
Join the Party. Membership forms are at;
http://www.AustralianHempParty.com
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47648287470
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-HEMP-Party/94315569790
Because the $1500 it costs to put our name on the Senate Ballot paper buys us more access to the corridors of power than any number of $10,000 a plate political fund raising dinners.
Membership check
Section 123 of the Electoral Act requires a non Parliamentary party to have at least 500 members (who are entitled to enrolment) to be eligible for registration. A party's eligibility is assessed in two ways. The secretary supplies a statutory declaration annexing the membership forms provided, declaring that the forms are signed by the people identified on them and that they have been accepted by the party as members.
The AEC conducts a membership test on a random sample of 20. members of the Party. The purpose of this test is to check for incorrect memberships on the basis that if a party relies on memberships of people who do not consider themselves members, then it is unlikely to have the required membership to be eligible for registration. The criterion for a successful random membership check is. to achieve 19 confirmations of party membership from the 20 people chosen at random.
Main Party Policies on Cannabis.
> 1. To alleviate the suffering of the chronically or terminally ill.
> 2. To enhance the environment by replacing environmentally unsound products.
> 3. To reduce avenues of fast cash for terrorists, insurgents, arms traders, and security organisations.
> 4. To reduce the flow of cannabis money to criminal gangs.
> 5. To limit corrupting temptations available to Police, Customs Officials, and Prison Guards
> 6. To decriminalise hemp and drastically reduce Police workload, and free officers to tackle genuine crimes where it is not as easy to gain high arrest rates.
> 7. To remove an avenue for scaremongering by opportunistic politicians and journalists.
> 8. To hopefully lower the price of hemp.
> 9. To put an end to using dogs as a tool of discrimination against a harmless sector of the community.
> 10. To put an end to the marginalisation of cannabis users, indeed to try to put such petty behaviours to rest in many areas of politics.
> 11. To allow people to enjoy a spiritual, relaxing experience - legally.
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Do YOU have any policy or campaign ideas to put the HEMP Party into the hearts and minds of Australia?
http://www.AustralianHempParty.com
