The AEM formed because our founding members
were dismayed to find that there were no organisations within Australia (or
elsewhere) that specifically (or even partially) represented Egalitarianism and all that is possible by becoming an Egalitarian
society. We felt that this serves to give the false impression that an Egalitarianist is a rare individual, when there are
probably millions of
us out here. We felt that this lack of representation was in turn serving to
make an Egalitarianist a rare individual, and serving to keep
Egalitarianists isolated and without a public voice, ensuring that we
are unable to influencing the laws, policies, and culture of our
society. The AEM,
which is currently a non-profit unincorporated association, formed to provide a forum within which Egalitarianists
can begin to unite, so that we may eventually provide political representation
for we
isolated Egalitarianists.
Ultimately, the AEM's goal is to change the
constitution of Australia to an Egalitarian one by gaining public
support via education. This may be some time away as we are
not yet a political party. At present, this website, which was created
on the 20th of January, 2004, represents our only means of communicating
with the public. Since the creation of this website, the
size of our membership is slowly increasing, the majority being
international members.
The AEM, to a lesser extent, also
represents a different type of democracy, which allows citizens to vote
on policies and ideas rather than for the people who proffer these
policies or ideas. Also, we allow citizens to vote on each issue
separately, rather than to vote for a person or party that represents a
wide-spread and diverse package of policies, many of which we do not
find out about until after they take office. See why in our 'The
Democratic and Undemocratic Nature of the AEM's Egalitarian
Society' web page. As with another of our policies for government,
anybody is welcome to proffer ideas or challenge the AEM about
how to run any aspect of the Egalitarian society. We appreciate your
input, and we will always respond.
While the AEM has proffered a generalised
plan for how the Egalitarian society will be administered, the AEM has not yet drawn
up an Egalitarian Constitution for Australia.
Since we are intending to create something completely new, we are
leaving the the discussion open so that anybody may contribute
ideas for the Egalitarian Constitution of Australia. When we become a
political party, we will draw up a tentative Egalitarian constitution,
which will allow the public plenty of time to
contemplate and challenge it, and to even cause us to modify it when sensible ideas
are proffered.