The Body Shop is apolitical - that means we don't lean one way or another... of course we are extremely interested in politics - every corporation is. Most corporates are self-interested in how the party's policies - especially tax and IR - will effect their bottom line.At The Body Shop we're interested in much more than this... that's why this Saturday if you share the same values of Defending Human Rights and Protecting our Planet you might want to consider voting for the party with the best policies for these issues. Don't waste your vote!
Protecting the Planet
Click on the below image to read the Australian Conservation Foundation's report card on how the parties rate on the issues of:
- climate change,
- leadership for a sustainable future and
- protecting our natural environment:
Defending Human Rights
Human rights to health, housing, education and work are stripped away by poverty. Here are the facts:
- 6.45 billion people live on this Earth
- 2.74 billion people survive on less than US$2 a day
- 800 million people go to bed hungry every night
- 121 million children don't have access to education
- 1.2 billion people don't have access to safe drinking water
- 1 billion people (1/3 of the global workforce) are unemployed, underemployed or working poor - 60% are women
- Each day, nearly 30,000 children die from illnesses that are easily preventable or cured if they weren't in poverty.
In my opinion, one of the most important and just things our government can do is to give a fair amount of sustainable aid and development funding to help people in desperate poverty. Individually, Australians are among the most generous donors in the world in terms of their giving to overseas aid. Unfortunately our government's level of overseas aid is one of the worst.
Check out the Make Poverty History Coalition's report card if you want to defend human rights with your vote.Find out where your nearest polling place here.
Adam Valvasori - Values Manager
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