Enlightened Policy Debates

Whether you are a citizen of Australia, or Tunisia, Iraq, Germany, Russia, Estonia, Portugal, China, Mexico, Chile, Egypt, India, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, or...


...anywhere else for that matter, and even if you are a stateless person, enlightened policy debates are probably very important to you, wherever in the world they happen to occur.

The problem is, however, that many people cannot follow an enlightened policy debate, or even identify one when it is occurring.  You may experience such difficulties yourself, dear reader, especially as the first sentence in this blog-pamphlet posting has more than 140 characters, as does this one, and a short attention span is a frequent ailment nowadays, especially for persons who are not associated with the Mozarty Party.

I make no apology, either, for the fact that I do not mention the names of any paid sports persons, contemporary acting professionals or performers of currently popular music here.  If you believe this to be a disappointment, perhaps it is time to enlighten yourself about much more important topics, such as enlightened policy debates.  If you do not do so, then you are likely to be a contributor to bad politics.  I am sure you do not really wish to be associated with that sort of unpleasantness, hence my concern for your reputation.



Bad politics, like long and complicated sentences about important issues, are not the cause of imprisoned minds.  If you have ever found yourself serving a long sentence in a material prison of some description, rather than a psychological one, just because you have written a few long sentences about the problems caused by bad politics, then I am sure that every enlightened person in the world with have sympathy for you.

Good politics, on the other hand, requires the ability to identify, follow, think about, examine and contribute towards good policy, by all citizens, and non-citizens, everywhere.  This, of course, requires a certain amount of educational resources, abilities and inclinations across the lifespan of each person.  If you are able and willing to refer to a dictionary, for example, that is a very good start indeed.

A good reference library, whether in a paper form on a bookshelf, or as a folder in the bookmarks section of a computational machine, is an essential feature of any enlightened policy debate.  Besides a dictionary, what else do you keep as your main references?

The Mozarty Party will be going global during 2011.  You may have already heard about its highly successful experiences in three elections in Australia during 2010. If you have not been aware of the Mozarty Party before now, then you have not been following any policy debates in an enlightened way at all over the past twelve months.


An article today, in The Drum on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's website, has been written by Miriam Lyons and Mark Davis, and is entitled The 2011 to-do list: Ideas for public policy.  It states that the decades ahead of us require "innovative, bold decisions".  I believe, however, that innovation and boldness are not as important as enlightenment when making decisions.  This is because our decisions are only ever as good as the evidence upon which they are based.

The article also mentions a particularly important point.  That point is the need to create a political environment to match the challenges we face.  The Mozarty Party wishes to create that political environment, so that appropriate, well-placed actions happen when they are most required.


This is why I am announcing today that the Mozarty Party is going global.

Wherever you may be in the world, you can join.  You may participate through your favourite social networks and through your favourite media sources and through the groups and interactions you experience on a daily basis.

Of course, participating in politics as a citizen is a time-consuming endeavour, as is writing and reading blog-pamphlets, engaging with articles written by informed journalists and academic experts, and having some sort of social life, but so is cleaning up the world after incompetent leaders have left it in rather a nasty mess.  Mr Mozart never wrote nasty, messy music, which is why he is an inspirational world leader, even today.


You may wish to discover more about the article mentioned above, and about its authors and their work:


A link to The 2011 to-do list

Centre for Policy Development

More than luck - Ideas Australia needs now



Many people complain that they are too busy to participate in the debates that matter to their own future, or feel that making a contribution is a waste of time because no-one of influence is likely to listen to them anyway.  Yet what dissatisfied citizens are really saying, in my view, is that the debates are frequently boring or stressful to endure.  This is especially the case when many of the words used in those debates require access not only to a good dictionary, but also to an encyclopedia.

It probably also requires several quiet hours to examine the evidence properly on just one small issue.  No wonder it seems to be so much easier just to sit back and be entertained by spectator sports, celebrity gossip and the dream of a big lottery win.  Many politicians do not listen properly to your views because they do not know what to do with those views once they have heard just a small part of what you have to say.

The International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence provides courses to assist confused and perplexed politicians, and all sorts of other bewildered members of the general public.  Learn more here.

The Mozarty Party encourages you to switch off the unnecessary noise and chatter and to embrace politics in a new way - combining a cheerful lightness with an elegant, charming and well-informed seriousness as we face the challenges the future is bound to bring.  Welcome to the 21st century Enlightenment.


More about the Mozarty Party:

How to engage with a Mozarty approach to politics