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MEDIA RELEASE 27 June 2002 NSW MPs first with Dome of Conscience In Parliament House today Independent MP Robert Oakeshott invited all NSW MPs to participate in an online issues forum called the "Dome of Conscience". Sydney-based BigPulse.com has donated the Dome of Conscience to the NSW Parliament. It's a virtual space where elected Members can exercise a daily, anonymous yet transparent conscience vote on all issues. The idea is to let the public see where the Members stand on the issues of the day with the security of anonymous voting. Anyone can see the Dome at www.bigpulse.com/nswdome but only NSW MPs can vote in this special poll in the website www.bigpulse.com. "It's a concept all politicians should embrace in the public interest. It's potentially another evolution in democracy that will connect the Parliament to the people. Australia invented the secret ballot in 1856. Now we are exploring democracy even further," said Robert Oakeshott Member for Port Macquarie. "The Dome of Conscience will produce a concise but collective expression of Members' true opinions on the big issues - there is no distinction between the parties in this forum," said BigPulse founder Ralph McKay. "Members, the media and the electorate will see an unbiased picture of the middle or common ground as perceived by the elected Members. Undoubtedly it will become a reference from which the positions of the parties and Members are assessed," said McKay. BigPulse polls are unique. There are no questions, no surveys and no pollster setting the agenda. Opinions in the form of placards are harvested directly from the target group - in this case Members of the NSW Parliament. All opinion placards compete daily for votes from MPs and are ranked live in the Dome's leaderboard for all to see. It's a polling method that produces a graded expression of the intensity of opinions on the big issues. It does not attempt to quantify disinterest. The opinion placards appearing in the Parliament's Dome of Conscience poll can migrate to the public BigPulse poll known as the "Main Board". This commonality of placards will facilitate easy comparison between the priorities of the public and the collective priorities of the Members. "A daily conscience vote will take Members just a minute or two. The idea will appeal to any MP committed to transparency, open government and democracy," said McKay. The Dome is an opportunity for MPs to show the electorate that they have clear opinions and know and care about the issues. People in all electorates can now feel that their local Member has a voice that's heard. "MPs participation in the Dome will help enliven the interest of all people in the political process and we as Members of Parliament have this challenge to break cynicism and apathy. It's our challenge no one else's," said Robert Oakeshott. Tomorrow a BigPulse representative will visit the Parliamentary Office of each Member inviting MPs to draw one unmarked envelope from a box of envelopes. Each envelope will contain a unique Dome voting access password with instructions. "The same BigPulse technology can be used to introduce transparent democracy to the rank and file of any organization - an anonymous request from just one person is all it takes," said McKay. Democracy alive with a BigPulse! |
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