Social & Political Sustainability
Offering local employ in an ethical, non-exploitive business that is about worthwhile employment that carries ability to help effect worthwhile change in society.
Helping create pride, unity and empowerment in regional society; leading to demand for greater decentralised regional political autonomy.
Thereby encouraging a regional perception, improving social cohesion.
Boosting organic farm pride, and small rural town pride by acknowledging, at last, the vital role of local caring farmers in growing us clean nutritious food.
Red Dragon Inn believes Regional and Federal (i.e. national) governance is all Australia needs and can afford. Further layers (eg State) of governance only dilute the democratic functioning.
Every $ spent on regional produce and products denies that $ to the unethical multinationals and rogue corporations who are our geopolitical enemies and the enemy of sustainable development.
We need to start, develop and support ethically based regional businesses that adhere to principles of regional sustainability; thereby leaving the consumer, the environment and the local economy in better health. This is not easy. By definition it is hard to start a sustainability based business in an economic climate dominated by anti sustainable and anti regional practices, structures and rewards. Government likes the status quo and only consumer pressure can bring about change. Multinationals do not care if you like them or not, only that you consume their products and give them your $; some of which they then give to politicians to maintain the unsustainable status quo.
Deny them your $ and the basis of their power evaporates.
Red Dragon Inn supports Community supported agriculture (Food Connect in Brisbane sell RDInn's organic ginger beer), localism and the Transition Town concepts.