Our core values
- Honesty and integrity in how we act
- Passionate about what we stand for
- Aspirational and optimistic in our vision of the future
- Affinity for the needs of our members
- Respect for diversity among individuals and communities
- Pragmatic in our approach
- Determination in achieving our goals
Our guiding values
We support a properly functioning government that supports the aspirations and needs of all of its citizens including:
- Empowering individuals to be capable and self-reliant
- Strengthening communities to be resilient and able to overcome their challenges with a localised approach
- Investing wisely in innovation to create job opportunities and national wealth
- Adopting evidence-based and pragmatic approaches to policy solutions
- Balancing individual rights with community responsibility
- Creating a sustainable economy that serves and safeguards individual and community interests
- Respecting the environment to ensure the health and prosperity of current and future generations
- Using long term planning horizons to underpin major investment and policy decisions
- Representing the highest ideals of being Australian and our standing as a respected member of the international community
- Ensuring freedom from corruption, intimidation, and behaviours unbecoming of its leadership role through transparency
- Collaborating and engaging in the running of government
More specifically, we believe in addressing the nation’s cycling and mobility issues including:
- Recognising the interdependence of transport, health, planning and other government functions in supporting the healthy modes of sustainable transport
- Working to ensure cycling and other active transport choices are perceived safe and represent low injury risk
- Fostering an environment of mutual respect and obligation by all individuals to each other regardless of their chosen transport choice
- Ensuring enforcement measures and liability laws encourage safer co-existence of cyclists and other road users
- Providing appropriate infrastructure and other measures to pro-actively and adequately support cycling – backed by all levels of government
- Embracing the importance of community engagement and fair, equitable and evidence-based processes in assessing transport priorities and spending