NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/aus/politics/2160

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From: [e-mail] (John Gallant)
Newsgroups: aus.politics
Subject: Re: The Alliance for Democratic Reform
Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:22:10 GMT
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Having responded to a discussion on "The Limits of Democracy", I was
already on the mailing list of the ADR and have received some brochures.
I am interested and in broad agreement with the directions of ADR, but I
have a couple of questions:

1.    Why was the word "Alliance" chosen as part of the name? An
    alliance of what/whom?

2.    On page 5 of the brochure there is a sentence "ADR's policy is
    that State Governments should be abolished". This is not
    presented as being part of the Core Platform. I'm not asking for
    a defence of this policy, but I would like to know the status of
    this policy, and, more generally, what is the difference between
    "policy" and "platform".

Thanks. I hope we see some more discussion here.

--
    John Gallant           [e-mail]  "Every \item command in
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