Thank you to everyone for your support for this year’s Fighting Fund. It is your support that makes The Movement’s work possible and allows it to expand. We have received $108,471 so far, for which we are truly grateful.
To continue the important work of The Movement, including analysis of critical issues here in News Weekly, we are seeking to raise a further $371,529 to reach our budgeted target of $480,000. Any help, or additional help, is greatly appreciated.
Our world is increasingly in a state of flux. Things we have taken for granted for so long are no longer stable. People, institutions, and even states are not as reliable, predictable, and as steady as they once were.
Deteriorating
We see the increasing risk of multi-state war in the Middle East. We continue to see the effects of war in Europe. We see the increasing dangers in the Indo-Pacific and Southeast Asia.
The global situation is worrisome, and our domestic situation has its own big challenges.
We see increasing inflation, housing unaffordability so bad it is an open question whether young people will ever have a chance to enjoy what their parents did. Energy prices are rising and energy reliability is falling.
We just saw an expensive referendum pursued by corporate and political elites only to be soundly rejected by the people themselves – an outcome unsurprising to anyone paying attention, but seemingly a shock to those same elites.
Many of the methods people once relied upon to participate in society – the press, community groups, politics – have diminished in their activity and their impact. There is inertia everywhere.
And that inertia is what we are tackling.
Building Anew
We have just run nine successful dinners – three in the Burnett/Wide Bay region of Queensland, three in Northern Queensland and three in the Western region of Victoria. Thanks to Senior Advisory Council member Peter Westmore, Victorian NCC president Tony O’Brien, and TMC executive director Anna Krohn OAM for volunteering their time to speak at these dinners.
These dinners aim to promote the NCC’s work, find new supporters and readers of News Weekly, and raise much needed funds. But more importantly they bring people together for the sake of building community and a creative minority. These dinners are not just for a particular campaign – they are a basic building block for a community resistant to the issues of our time.
We decided over the last two years to focus on rebuilding our community, our networks, and our connections. This is what makes The Movement so vital and so impactful. We are not just a think tank. We are not solely a publication. We are not merely a campaign outfit. We are a Movement that brings people together as a creative minority to bring about the Common Good wherever we are and however we can.
I am pleased to announce this agenda is being realised, slowly and carefully, brick by brick. Rome was not built in a day, and nor can a far-reaching and impactful Movement across the whole of our society be spun up overnight.
Thank you for your support.
