About
What this is
The Direct Democracy Party exists so that members decide the Party's positions directly, rather than delegating that to a party room. Under our Constitution, members get a direct and binding say in the policy positions the Party adopts and in how its elected representatives are instructed. One member, one vote, on each issue.
The aim is to endorse candidates for the Commonwealth Parliament, the Parliament of New South Wales, and local councils, and more broadly to push Australian government toward more direct, issue-based democracy.
Who runs it
The Party Secretary is Timothy Yang. He lives in Balgowlah Heights, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, and holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Technology Sydney. He is the contact for membership, privacy and media enquiries, and the authorising officer for material the Party publishes.
His background is technical. He worked as a Cloud Support Associate at Amazon Web Services and, before that, as a technical support engineer at Dell. Since 2022 he has built and run online businesses of his own.
He also builds communities, which is most of what running a party turns out to be. He founded Vibe Coding Club, an independent community of more than 3,700 developers and designers, and served as President of the UTS Chess Club. Closer to home, he has volunteered as the developer for Balgowlah Tennis Club since 2019, rebuilding its website and helping triple its active membership.
He built this platform himself, which is deliberate. A party that asks people to trust it with their political views should be able to say plainly where that data is kept and who can reach it. That answer is on the privacy page, in full.
He currently also holds the roles of Registered Officer and Deputy Registered Officer, the positions an electoral authority corresponds with about registration. The Party is small enough that one person holds all three; as it grows, office bearers are chosen by members under the Constitution and each will be listed here by name.
Where things stand
The Party is not yet registered with the Australian Electoral Commission or any state electoral authority. Registration requires a verified membership list (1,500 members federally, 750 in New South Wales), and the electoral authority contacts a sample of those members directly to confirm they really joined.
That is why joining asks for a real, verified mobile number, and why it is worth more to us than a large list of unverified sign-ups. Until registration happens the Party cannot endorse candidates or appear on a ballot paper.
How it is run
Membership is free. Members propose topics, endorse the proposals of others, and vote on the ones that gather enough support. How any individual voted stays confidential. The rules are in the Constitution and summarised in the membership terms.
Contact
Timothy Yang, Party Secretary
Balgowlah Heights NSW 2093, Australia
[email protected]
Journalists are welcome to get in touch at the same address.