With the Victorian election around the corner, I’ve decided to start writing a newsletter to the Victorian Community Newspapers to invite our Victorian voting community to coach the incumbent and aspiring candidates to address the issues that are important to them in the forthcoming election. They are, or will be soon, our elected representatives who will be paid to represent us, the community of Victoria, from the tax purse of us, the Victorian community.
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Community is a passion of mine, as is democracy; I love both for I think they are inseparable. Going back to community, the sort of community we see rise to the fore when a natural disaster, such as when a bushfire threatens our communities; it is why I write this newsletter now. When those fires threaten our communities, no expense, absolutely no expense is spared in extinguishing the flames. Tears flow freely at the loss of loved ones, homes, farms, and burnt carcasses of cattle, sheep, wild life and of course the blackened bush.
We hear many stories of heroism from ordinary folk who have stepped beyond the line of personal safety; for a new line has been drawn in the sand, one that compels us as human beings to act, to go that extra mile, for that is our true nature!
Currently we have a bushfire of epic proportions and it’s not one readily recognised as a bush fire. This, fellow Victorians, is what my coaching is about; this is what has me go that extra mile; for our local Victorian Communities are on fire and many people and our environment are suffering badly and are being burnt.
The heart and soul of our Victorian Community is ordinary people like you and me, for we are the Spirit of our communities; all of us are, including our political representatives. This current bushfire looks like high unemployment, our climate crisis, and our youth ‘ice age’, our pensioner poverty, homelessness, underpaid and overworked paramedics, to name a few of the hot embers in urgent need of addressing!
How do we extinguish this fire, is the question we need to ask ourselves along with our hopeful politicians! For all these aspects of the fire fall under the banner of community, or should it read common unity?
I started my coaching campaign during half time in the recent AFL Grand Final, I was barracking for Sydney, I reckoned they needed some serious coaching at that point of the game. I had written to Premier Napthine a few days earlier, offering him the opportunity of using a unique business plan that I had created over the last 25 years. The purpose of my plan: to create community, what else? I call my model Spiritual-Busyness, for it has at its heart, the creation of local/global community; for that is its Spirit. In 1996 I stood for the Federal seat of Ballarat as an Interdependent, because I believe all communities are Interdependent on one another and I still believe that!
One of the things I shared with the Premier in my letter was I believed I could save the Australian car manufacturing industry with my model, and I reckon that would be good for a large swag of our Victorian Community. The triple bottom line (community, environment, profit) of my model is my figures stack-up!
If my model were used in the car manufacturing industry it would be transformed; the current workers would become shareholders and co-owners for my model is unique, it is a 49/51 per cent equity owned franchised co-operative model. I also have access to some ground breaking environmental restoration technology created by a friend of mine here in Australia, which would create thousands of jobs in Victoria.
My model could be used to transform any existing business or government department; for it is that big in its scope and vision, just like our Victorian community. It is ideally suited to any new start-up busyness, and it would spread like a wild-fire in next to no time, for it has an exponential growth base; where literally no one loses. From governments to banks, to the broad and diverse community of Victoria and my model is sustainable forever and non-inflationary finally overcoming the boom/bust economic modelling that has pervaded and set fire to our local/global communities for the last four hundred odd years.
So my coaching for you, my fellow Victorian voters, is go out and coach the candidates and share this news with them and transform our dying, burning Victorian Community into a vibrant, alive, fantastic Victorian state that burns brightly with hope for a better future for all Victorians and inspires and transforms other communities to follow our lead, a lead where everybody wins. My stand is apolitical; for its pro-community, Go Victoria!
Kind regards,
Alex Graham
