Australian Values Forum
The Australian Values Forum comprises a loose alliance of conservative thinkers who live by and promote fundamental Australian Values.
Our objective is to educate the people and parliaments of Australia in our nation’s foundational values.
We believe in these Australian Values
These are the 20 values on which the nation of Australia was founded and has prospered:
• In Australia, its people and its future.
• In the innate worth of the individual,
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in the right to be independent, to own property and to achieve, and in the need to encourage initiative and personal agency.
• In the basic freedoms of thought, worship, speech, association and choice.
• In equality of opportunity, with all Australians having the opportunity to reach their full potential in a tolerant national community.
• In a just and humane society, where those who cannot provide for themselves can live in dignity.
• In the family as the primary institution for fostering the values on which a cohesive society is built.
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In stewardship of our natural environment and natural resources
• In the creation of wealth and in competitive enterprise, consumer choice and reward for effort as the proven means of providing prosperity for all Australians.
• In the principle of mutual obligation, whereby those in receipt of government benefits make some form of contribution to the community in return, where this is appropriate.
• In the importance of voluntary effort and voluntary organisations.
• In parliamentary democracy as the best system for the expression and fulfilment of the aspirations of a free people.
• In the separation and distribution of powers as the best protection for the democratic process.
• In a federal system of government and the decentralisation of power, with local decisions being made at the local level.
• In a constitutional head of state as a symbol of unity and continuity.
• In Government being sufficiently responsive so that it can meet its proper obligations to its citizens.
• In Government keeping to its core business and not competing with the private sector.
• In the rule of law and justice, giving all citizens equal rights under the law, responsibilities to maintain it, and the freedom to change it.
• In Australia playing a constructive role in the pursuit and maintenance of international peace in alliance with other free nations and in assisting less advantaged peoples.
• In Western Civilisation, with its emphasis on the individual and enterprise, as the cultural philosophy best able to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st century.
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