ONE NATION POLITICAL PARTY
Full policy details follow the
Summary.
FEDERAL POLICY STATEMENT SUMMARY.
CITIZENS INITIATED REFERENDA
One Nation supports CIR as a system that allows all members of society to have a direct say in Government decision making. Representative Democracy only allows individuals or parties the right to decide for the rest of us.
One Nation believes in not only upholding the right but the need for all Australians to effectively raise debate on issues of concern and have the mechanism to democratically pursue those issues to produce an outcome of legislative change.
DEFENCE
One Nation believes the most fundamental and
foremost responsibility of any government is the provision of physical security
for the protection of the nation and its citizens.The conventional means of
affecting this is through the maintenance of a capable defence force to combat
any threat to our sovereignty . Fully supported by police and well trained reserve
forces backed by a strong sound
competitive manufacturing capacity. History reinforces the logic that the only
country that any one can depend on in a time of security crises is itself.
EDUCATION
One Nation is committed to a fundamental level
of education which encompasses at the very
least, writing, reading, spoken skills and
expression combined with essential mathematics.
To ensure this we will replace the UNESCO
"PROGRESSIVE" system with a full "SYLLABUS" system. Emphasis on responsibility, competition and
discipline. We will reinstate School Inspectors, ensure Christian Values,
Patriotism and Morality. Aptitude tests will be conducted to ensure students
are directed towards an education in line with their capabilities.
EMPLOYMENT
– INDUSTRIAL RELATION
One Nation believes that re-industrialisation is
the best way of creating lasting full time employment with positions for
skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers. This, combined with training
Australians rather than importing skills, tax and economic reform, rescinding
of
harmful treaties and implementing an industrial
relations policy based on fairness and equality for all Australian employees
and employers, will enable our manufacturing, business and rural industries to
compete on truly level playing field.
One Nation will make creating employment and
reducing unemployment and all its associated social ills our major objective.
One Nation's Industrial Relations policy is based
on fairness and equality for all parties concerned, with emphasis on protection
of employees and contractor
entitlements while also protecting employers from dishonest, disruptive,
unsuited employees, or abuse of power by
Unions or union officials. The important role of
unions have played in Australia is recognised,
and the continuing need for workers to have
access to assistance to negotiate their wages and conditions is acknowledged;
membership of unions will continue to be voluntary.
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ENERGY
One Nation is committed to ensuring that
Australian's have access to their abundant supplies of energy, without the
price impacts of OPEC, foreign exchange, excise taxes & flawed Kyoto
accords. We will control our energy resources, encourage the use of true
renewable energy and
cleaner autogas and remove deadly aromatics from
petrol, reducing liquid fuel prices to a reasonable cost and provide nation
wide uniform fuel pricing.
ENVIRONMENT
– SALINITY – WATERING AUSTRALIA
One Nation will ensure the protection of the
Australian environment, including National Parks, oceans, waterways and
atmosphere, for the benefit and enjoyment of all Australians, now and in the
future. There will be no Debt-for-equity swap to expunge part of the national
debt with the IMF/World Bank for Australia's national parks & wildlife. We
will foster the development of advanced efficient cleaner energy technologies,
encourage the use and conversion to Autogas, and low sulphur diesel, and remove
deadly aromatics from petrol. We will not ratify the Kyoto accords and withdraw
from agenda 21 and other treaties, which are essentially negative, counter
productive and a disaster of international pseudo-science, and dangerously
interfere in the climate system.
There is no escaping the fact that Salinity has
become an urgent environmental problem.
In states like western Australia and South
Australia and areas like the Murray-Darling Basin, it is probably the number
one environmental concern, if ignored, any longer the term will become environmental
disaster. Salinity needs fixing, and it needs fixing now.
One Nation will strive to repair the damage of
the past and minimize negative impacts into the future. Solutions to our
current problems need a comprehensive, holistic plan, One Nation will start
implementation of these plans immediately.
One Nation will prioritize Watering Australia.
GLOBALISATION
– GATS – TREATIES
One Nation rejects Globalisation, Mass
Immigration, the Destruction of our industries, the export of our jobs, the
sale of Australia and the Planned Ruination of the Rural sector and our
Standard of Living. One Nation will ensure that our identity and national
sovereignty are not undermined. It will see that essential services are
maintained and stay in Australian hands. Bureaucracy will be directed that
these priorities must be adhered to with a review of treaties, protocols and
agreements undertaken to ensure this. Senator Len Harris has made a public
commitment that One Nation would see Australia withdraw from GATS and will review
all treaties and withdraw from those of no benefit to us. Globalisation means
Australians giving up their country and we oppose it. Foreign aid will be
reviewed, & provided only in Australian made products and services to those
in genuine need.
HEALTH
In line with One Nation core values, that Health Care, should be available to ALL AUSTRALIANS. The Australian Health Care, should not only foster excellence in research and development as well as in training, it should also look to ensuring excellence in its delivery system. Medicare (Universal health care) and bulk billing are the corner stones of such a system.
We support the development of an equitable,
efficient and high quality care system that is accessible to all Australians regardless
of means, reinstatement of public hospital boards as elected by the community.
Public funding will be directed to consultation fees for GP's, ensuring the
survival of their practices, in lue of corporate funding.
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LAW
AND JUSTICE
One Nation will take a tough line on all crime.
Distribution and use of drugs are a criminal offence and will be treated as
such, free needles and other forms of encouragement will cease. We will have
truth in sentencing and equality in justice. We will ensure its the criminal
that suffers not the victims, and people have the right to defend their
property, and to be safe in their homes or on the street, especially our
seniors. One Nation believes in restoring the authority
of the family and that responsible parents should not have their authority
eroded by frivolous legislation or UN treaties. We recognise that the best
support we can give to any family is support that keeps the marriage and family
unit intact.
MULTICULTURISM
- IMMIGRATION
One Nation will abolish multiculturalism and the
Racial Discrimination Act, promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride
in being an Australian.
One Nation believes that migrants who choose
Australia, as their permanent homeland should, as a part of their decision to
migrate will embrace and enjoy Australia’s cultural values, lifestyle, freedoms
and language.
One Nation believes in zero net immigration
(subject to review depending on the economy) and that coming to Australia is a
privilege that must not be undervalued.
We reserve the right to discriminate to ensure these privileges are
maintained, so protecting our economy, social cohesion and cultural heritage.
PRIMARY
INDUSTRY – RURAL
One Nation believes that our primary industries
are a national asset and critical to our security, we will ensure the future of
Primary Production. One Nation will support continued growth in our primary
industries, encouraging environment-friendly economical sustainable production,
and ethical resource use. One Nation will protect our primary industries from
deregulation, native title, globalism and treaties that threaten
competitiveness, energy prices and other costs of production will be reduced,
with new technologies to control insect pests and ensure water supplies.
60% of the farms that existed in Australia in
1960 have disappeared; 40% of the farms which existed in 1985 have now gone.
The remaining farmers have been leaving the land (1997 figures) at the rate of
35 per week. Some sources place the 'flight from the land' even higher,
reporting that the number of Australian farmers
declined 15% between 1988 & 1996, representing a loss of 52 farmers a week.
The Australian government's response has been to put up a $500 million taxpayer
funded aid package not to halt the trend, but to help farmers leave the land.
In the pursuit of globalism they have managed to destroy our rural industries
to the extent that we now have to borrow money to import food that we once
produced here.
ONE NATION the only party to represent the
farmers will reverse this.
GENETICALLY
MODIFIED PRODUCTS
Until it has been clearly demonstrated elsewhere
that GM products are ecologically and environmentally safe, there will be a
moratorium on the further use of or development of GM products in Australia.
All existing GM products or products with GM ingredients will be required to be
clearly labeled as such. One Nation believes that it is better to err on the
side of caution than to make hasty decisions. Multinationals, technological and
industrial developers must demonstrate that planned projects are ecologically
sustainable and safe.
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SENIORS
That Australians of mature age should be
classified as Seniors and should be entitled to receive appropriate benefits. They
should not suffer demeaning categorization such as; Pensioners, Aged, Older
person etc.
Those who have contributed through the Social
Security Contribution levy, upon reaching retirement age, should be entitled
their full pension without assets test, with free health and medical
benefits. They should also be
encouraged, not hindered in developing any supplementary secure and independent
source of income for their retirement.
Full Policy Details below.
29th.October 2006
ONE
NATION FEDERAL POLICIES BOOK 2005/06
This
book is designed to reflect current government portfolios with ONE NATION
POLICY including briefing designed to enable branches & candidates to
promote them to our members & electorates. It is critical that we make
people aware of our policies as the government has already adopted our policy
to abolish ATSIC.
Listing
is in alphabetical order & word format.
# 01
Commonwealth Parliament & Government
# 02
Communication, IT & Arts.
# 03
Defence & Security,
# 04
Education, Science & Training
# 05
Employment & Workplace Relations
# 06
Energy & Mining
# 07
Environment,
# 08
Family & community Services
# 09
Finance & Taxation
# 10
Health
# 11
Immigration & Customs
# 12
Industry: Manufacturing, Business & Tourism
# 13
Law & Justice
# 14
Primary Industries,
# 15
Seniors & Social Security
# 16
Trade & Treaties
# 17
Transport
# 18
Water
Email
copies on request from colinlaw@bigpond.com.au for printed copies
please contact head office at;
onenation@optusnet.com.au
Colin
Law
VP QLD Div. & Policy Coordinator. Ph.
07-55462571
ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
# 01-COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT
One Nation accepts that under
the Australian Constitution Sovereignty is ultimately resident in the people,
humbly relying on the blessing of almighty God. Supreme authority or power is
vested in the people, & the machinery of government is an instrument whose
duty it is to carry out the will of the people. Any changes to the constitution
or adoption of international laws can only be done by the people by referendum.
POLICY: PARLIAMENT & GOVERNMENT
One Nation supports CIR as a
system that allows all members of society to have a direct say in Government
decision-making. Representative Democracy only allows individuals or parties
the right to decide for the rest of us. One Nation believes in not only
upholding the right but the need for all Australians to effectively raise
debate on issues of concern & have the mechanism to democratically pursue
those issues to produce an outcome of legislative change.
One Nation believes the
current system has generally worked well, however it is party oriented & as
far as true democracy is concerned the peoples rights & constitution are
being subverted & replaced by international law.
Therefore One nation being a
true democratic party, we propose that the Australian Constitution is strictly
retained, & changes are only made by Referendum.
Community Based Referendum is
relatively simple, inexpensive, & a democratically effective method of
ensuring that the laws under which people live are approved by the people
themselves.
"Politicians are servants of the people - not their
masters"
Justice depends on equality
before the law. That is a principle that was enunciated by Aristotle over 2000
years ago. It remains true to this day.
One Nation has been listening
to the people & will begin the
rebuilding of public confidence in politicians.
One Nation whether achieving balance
of power, or an absolute majority will bring honesty, accountability &
ethics back to parliament, & stop the waste of public money by:
Provide politicians with
equality in superannuation & retirement benefits.
Public access to all
politicians’ expenses
Fixed four-year parliamentary
terms.
MAINTAINING THE CONSTITUTION
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
When Australia was settled in
1788 we inherited the Common Law of England. The Colonial Laws Validity Act of
1865 confirmed this. So that there was no doubt that we inherited the English
Common Law, the Australian Courts Act was passed in 1828, confirming this.
These rights have been listed above, but it is important to spell them out
clearly:
The right to own private
land or property.
The right to practice our
normal customs.
The right to a fair trial
by our peers (equals).
The right to freedom from
cruel or unjust arrest, search,
seizure, detention, fines
or imprisonment without conviction, or excessive bail.
The right to face our
accuser in open court.
Legal representation.
The right to remain silent
& not be forced to incriminate oneself.
Innocent until proven
guilty.
Freedom of movement,
assembly, association, speech, expression.
Parliamentary privilege.
The right to bear arms.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: #01 COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT &
GOVERNMENT
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT/GOVERNOR GENERAL
Australia is a federal
parliamentary democracy, is an independent self- governing state & a member
of the Commonwealth of Nations. The constitution of Australia, which became
effective in 1901, is based on British parliamentary traditions, & includes
elements of the U.S. system. The head of state is the British sovereign, &
the head of government is the Australian prime minister, who is responsible to
the Australian Parliament. All powers not delegated to the federal government
are reserved to the states.
EXECUTIVE
Formally, executive authority
in Australia is vested in the governor-general, who is appointed by the British
monarch in consultation with the Australian prime minister. The British monarch
is also the royal head of Australia, but has no real power in the government
& serves as a symbolic head of state. Federal policy in practice is
determined by cabinet, which is chaired by the prime minister, who is the head
of the majority party in parliament. The ministers are responsible for the
individual departments of the federal government, & these are administered
by permanent civil servants.
LEGISLATURE
National legislative power in
Australia is vested in a bicameral parliament, made up of a Senate & a
House of Representatives. The Senate consists of 76 members (12 from each state
& 2 from each territory), popularly elected to six-year terms under a form
of proportional representation. According to the Australian constitution, the
House should have about twice as many members as the Senate. The number of
members from a state is proportional to its population, but must be at least
five. In 2004 the House had 150 members, popularly elected to a term of up to
three years. The prime minister can ask
the governor-general to dissolve the House & call new elections at any
time.
THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
The Australian constitution
provides the basic rules for the government of Australia. These rules cover the
structure of the federal parliament & its power to make laws, the executive
government, the judicial system, & the relationship between the
Commonwealth & the States.
Covering Clauses. The Australian Constitution was passed as part of a
British Act of Parliament. The Act containing the Constitution was passed by
the British Parliament in Westminster in 1900. The Constitution took effect
from 1 January 1901.
Federal Parliament. The Constitution establishes the Federal Parliament
with a House of Representatives & a Senate. Each of the original States has
the same number of Senators, regardless of its population. In the House of
Representatives the number of seats which each State has depends on its
population size.
Federal Powers. The Constitution divides power between Federal &
State Parliaments. It lists the subjects about which the Federal Parliament can
make laws e.g. taxation, currency; defence; external affairs; interstate &
international trade; foreign, trading & financial corporations; marriage
& divorce; quarantine; pensions & other social services; immigration;
bankruptcy; & industrial arbitration.
State Powers. There are important omissions from the list of powers
given to the Federal Parliament e.g. land, police, criminal law, education,
health, roads, industrial safety, prices & income, & the environment.
Most law making on those subjects is done by the States. The Federal
Parliament, however, can use the powers it has e.g. over defence, to pass laws
about land, education, roads etc, - for example, to acquire land to build a
Defence College, or to construct roads for troop movements. The Federal
Government can also influence how things are done in areas over which it has no
direct power to pass laws. This is because it has power to grant money to the
States & to impose conditions on the way in which the money is spent
(section 96). For example, the Federal Government maintains close control of
universities in this way. The Constitution expressly guarantees the continuing
existence of the States (sections 106 & 107). There are a few subjects
about which the States are prevented from making laws (section 52 & 90),
e.g. to impose customs & excise duties. The States are also forbidden from
having their own defence forces without the consent of the Federal Parliament
(section 114).
Shared Powers. But on many subjects e.g. marriage & divorce
& bankruptcy, the States share law making powers with the Federal
Parliament. However, where a Federal law, which is constitutionally valid
overlaps with a State law, the Federal law operates & the State law, to the
extent of the inconsistency, is invalid (section 109).
The Executive Government. The Constitution created the position of
Governor-General, who is the Queen’s representative in Australia (sections 2-5,
56-70, 126 & 128). The Constitution says that the Governor-General shall be
advised by the ‘Federal Executive Council’ (section62), but makes no mention of
the Prime Minister or Cabinet. However from the start it was intended that
Parliament would operate along the lines of the British Parliament in
Westminster, with a Prime Minister & a Cabinet, & Ministers in charge
of government Departments who are members of, & answerable to,
parliament-the so-called ‘Westminster System’ of government. It was considered
so obvious that this system would operate in Australia that it was unnecessary
to spell it out in the constitution.
High Court. The constitution provides for the establishment of
the high Court of Australia with powers to decide disputes about the meaning of
the constitution e.g. The most sinister aspect of the continuing campaign to
subvert the Federal Constitution has been the misuse of the External Powers by
the Federal Government to enter into international agreements & conventions
on a wide variety of subjects which have traditionally been under State
jurisdiction & then to argue that because of the external agreements, the
Federal Government had the constitutional right to legislate for the whole of
Australia, even if this conflicted with State policies. By this procedure
Federal Governments could, without consulting the people by referendum,
progressively increase power over all aspects of Australian life. Australians
were jolted into a realisation of how their Federal Constitution was being
subverted when a High Court majority decision said that the Federal government
could prevent the Tasmanian people from building a dam. This was the result of
the Fraser Government illegally placing part of Tasmania under the World
Heritage Commission. The way has been cleared for Federal governments to take
over vast areas of Australia by placing them under the World Heritage
Commission (Globalisation).
An Australian “Common Market”. The Constitution contains provisions which create a
free trade area-without internal customs barriers-throughout Australia
(sections 90 & 92), & provides for other aspects of finance & trade
(sections 81-105).
Rights. The Constitution has no equivalent to the bill of
Rights found in the United States Constitution, Some protections, however, are
given against the Commonwealth, but not the States by sections 51(xxxi)
(acquisitions of property only on just terms), 80 (trial by jury), & 116
(religion). Section 117, which applies to the states, provides that there shall
be no discrimination on the basis of place of residence.
Amending the Constitution. The Constitution provides a mechanism by which it
can be altered, called a referendum. Before there can be any change to the
Constitution, a majority of electors must vote in favour of the change. In
addition there must be a majority vote in a majority of States, that is 4 out
of the 6 States. For the matter to get to referendum in the first place, the Federal
Parliament-or at least one house of it-must pass the proposed law containing
the suggested amendment to the Constitution (Section 128).
Commonwealth of Australia
Constitution Act. CHAPTER 12.
An Act to constitute the
Commonwealth of Australia. (9th July 1900)
WHEREAS the people of new
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland; and Tasmania, humbly
relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under the Constitution
hereby established:
THE TAMING of LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Taming of Local
Government: On 3/9/1988 a referendum with the following context (provided by
the AEC) was put to the Australian people. It was (3) Constitution Alteration
(Local Government) 1988.
The legislative proposal was,
"119A. Each State shall provide for the establishment & continuance of
a system of local government, with local government bodies elected in
accordance with the laws of the State & empowered to administer, & to
make bylaws, for their respective areas in accordance with the laws of the
State."
Why was it necessary to ask
this question in the first place?
Because the Constitution did
not & still does not recognise Local Government.
Since the Constitution is the
basis of our laws & it does not recognise "local government", it
means that no local council anywhere in Australia has legal standing! It
logically follows that they operate outside the law!!!
What the law does not allow
is considered criminal. It is that simple.
The result of that
Referendum, over 87% of the people of Australia & the states of WA, SA,
Vic, Tas, NSW, & QLD voted "NO". It is clear that no "system
of local government" may be lawfully "established or continued" within
the Commonwealth of Australia, or within any of the various states.
The Constitutional decision
made by the people in 1988 implied, "All councils now operate with no Head
of Power. A Head of Power is the authority to act. No state can legislate to dignify
councils with a Head of Power. No council officer is now indemnified from
prosecution or from any private form of litigation & no council laws or by
laws can be used lawfully against any citizen."
So the very next year, the Hawke
Government introduced the "Local Government Act of 1989", in criminal
contempt of the Australian people, the Constitution & the result of the
Referendum!
It is obvious that Councils
have no legal standing under our constitution, they can only be legalised by
the people at a referendum, to which they have already said no.
There must be an end to:
unwarranted search, seizure of property without a court hearing, interference
in our right to Work, blackmail, extortion, political persecution, interference
on freehold land, unfair rating of property, excessive rates, over-generous
remuneration for counsellors & staff, & definitely no legislation that
would hinder a ratepayer suing counsellors & staff to redress wrongs.
THE
WHOLE SYSTEM IS RUNNING ON A GIGANTIC BLUFF!!
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#02
COMMUNICATIONS, IT & ARTS
Communications play an
important role in today’s world; the Australian Broadcasting Authority has not
been effective in its role. This is evident by the control of the media by a
few who provide only a biased one-side view in the reporting of news &
political comment. Australia has an excellent Analog TV broadcasting system,
this should not be replaced by digital until such time that it is proven to be
technologically superior, more economical & provide a better service to all
Australians.
One Nation insists that ‘Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, &
other like services’ remain in the power of the Parliament. Section 51(v) of
the Constitution. This forbids further sale of Telstra, far too much of the
communications industry is already foreign controlled. Telstra's profits should
be invested into improving services & reducing pricing, with the phasing
out of zone charges.
POLICY: #2 COMMUNICATIONS & IT
One nation opposes the
digital & Data casting Act 2000, on the following grounds: Proposed
dropping of the analog TV signal by 2008 Costs are beyond the reach of normal
Australians. Data casting restrictions would impede Australian industry. Digital policy is pandering to commercial
broadcasters.
One Nation opposes the
further privatisation & sale of Telstra, as far Too much of the
communications industry is already foreign controlled. Telstra's profits should
be invested into improving services & reducing pricing with the phasing out
of zone charges.
One Nation opposes
transferring of Telstra & telemarketing services offshore, in the pursuit
of globalism & at the expense of Australian Jobs.
One Nation will ensure
Section 51(v) of the Constitution, “Postal, telegraphic, telephonic & other
like service” are to be under the control of the Federal Parliament.
One Nation proposes to
retaining the existing concept of community service obligations, structure
& government ownership of Australia Post, with equality in employment for
stall management & directors.
One Nation opposes
deregulation & privatisation o Australia Post.
One Nation believes in
freedom of the press & we will work to take it out of the control of UN
treaties, & a few with fixed agendas.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING
COMMUNICATIONS & IT
This covers the following
departments; Broadcasting, Information Technology & Telecommunications.
BROADCASTING REGULATION
The Australian Broadcasting Authority
(ABA) was established by the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, & began
operations on 5 October 1992.
The Act defines the role of
the regulatory authority, gives the ABA a range of powers & functions,
& sets out explicit policy objectives. The objectives include the
desirability of program diversity, limits on concentration of ownership &
foreign control of the mass media & the need for media to help foster an
Australian cultural identity, report news fairly & respect community
standards. The ABA consists of a Chairman, Professor David Flint, & five
members, Mr Michael Gordon-Smith, Mr Robert Le Tet, Mr Malcolm Long, Mr John
Rimmer & Ian Robertson. There are also two associate members, Dr Robert
Horton & Ross Jones. The ABA has offices in Sydney & Canberra. At 30
June 2000, it had 156 staff, 105 in Sydney & 51 in Canberra.
ABA POLICIES
The ABA aims to promote high
standards that accord with public service policy & legislative framework in
relation to financial management, administration & employment.
ABA RECORDS MANAGEMENT
The ABA has control over
1,100 linear metres of archived records in Australian Archives repositories:
about 900 metres in the Villawood repository in Sydney, 200 metres in Melbourne
& a small quantity in Queensland for handling public requests for access to
archived records controlled by the ABA. Links to index of files.
RECENT LEGISLATION
The Broadcasting Services
Amendment (Digital Television & Data casting) Act 2000 made substantial
amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 to refine arrangements for the
introduction of digital television. The most significant of these were:
The requirement for
broadcasters to transmit a standard definition digital television (ADTV) signal
at all times & at least 20 hours per week of high definition digital
broadcasts (HDTV)
Provision to enable the ABC
& SBS to multi-channel certain kinds of programs; & provision to permit
digital program enhancement content & electronic program guides.
All mainland capital city stations must begin transmitting
full-time digital services from 1 January 2001, although the analog signals
will be simulcast until at least 2008. The requirement for 20 hours of HDTV
will take effect from the end of 2002.
PREAMBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Section 9 of the Telecommunications
(Consumer Protection & Service Standards) Act 1999 states that the object
of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) is to ensure that:
are reasonably accessible to
all Australians on an equitable basis, wherever they reside or carry on
business. The section also states that the USO should be fulfilled as
economically as possible & that any losses involved in its provision should
be shared among carriers.
The Act gives the Minister
the power to designate a universal service provider with primary responsibility
for delivery of the USO. Telstra is the current universal service provider,
although the legislation allows the Minister to declare two or more carriers as
universal service providers, or regional service providers, with appropriately
limited responsibilities.
THE ACCC TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP
The Telecommunications group
has prime responsibility for administering the Commission's functions for
competition & economic regulation of telecommunications & forms part of
both the ACCC's Regulatory Affairs Division (in terms of its regulatory pricing
& access work) & its Compliance Division (in terms of its competition
enforcement work).
functions include:
Administering the
telecommunications-specific competition safeguards regime under Part X1B of the
Trade Practices Act, which enables the Commission to deal with anti-competitive
conduct by carriers & carriage service providers as well as allowing it to
issue tariff filing directions & record-keeping rules to assist with its
telecommunications powers & functions.
Administering the
telecommunications-specific regime under Part X1C of the Trade Practices Act
for facilitating access to the networks of carriers. This includes declaring
services for access, approving access codes, approving access undertakings,
arbitrating disputes for declared services & registering access agreements.
Administering other
legislative provisions in the Telecommunications Act & other related
legislation, including in relation to price control of Telstra's retail
services, international conduct rules, number portability, electronic
addressing, interconnection standards & arbitration of disputes about
access to network information, access to facilities, operator services,
directory assistance services, provision of number portability, preselection,
emergency call services & carriage services for use by the defence forces.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
No one has suffered more than
One Nation from the lack of freedom of the press in Australia; the following is
a special report on this from Freedom bell.
The UN agency most involved
in media regulation & guidelines has been the Paris based United Nations
Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization, UNESCO.
As far back as 1970 set out
to control all the World Media with a campaign called the New World Information
Order. (NWIO).
At that time with the Cold
War still the main focus of attention, the Western Press were not about to
entertain any notion for controlling the free flow of news & opinion
especially by a UN Committee Soviet Bloc cronies Had made their own. The push
to codify & regulate continued to be advanced & rejected until the
Nairobi General Conference of UNESCO in 1976, when a resolution was advanced
that governments were "responsible for the activities in the International
sphere of all mass media under their jurisdiction." This move was defeated
by "negotiation", but what was left in place was an agreement that
governments who wanted to comply with the "Guidelines" set out by the
NWIO could do so. This small chink in the armour didn't seem important at the
time, but as it has vast importance for Australia now. And for other western
nations being swallowed up by the New World Order.
By 1978 a UNESCO Declaration
outlining standards for the International Media was adopted by consensus, This
was due to the pleading of Third World Nations that the "West" who
controlled most press agencies, were presenting an image of poorer nations that
was "unfair" & showed a biased & "sensationalist"
view of those nations. Strong language like "cultural aggression"
& "deforming the image of developing countries" was used to sway
the conference towards adopting standards to accommodate those opinions. The
road to ruin was definitely paved with good intentions.
Sean MacBride, a former Irish
foreign minister & recipient of both the Nobel & Lenin Peace Prizes,
was the head of a commission in 1980. They covered world print media as well.
As usual, lip service was given to the free press, at the same time as
establishing the NWIO guidelines.
The number of
"Like-minded" western countries who have "adopted" the NWIO
principals have now become a flood. The next step of course is to control the
newest & latest "media", the Internet. This will not be as
difficult as many would have you believe. By now the experts of
"co-opting" will have regulations in place to effect a smooth
"transfer" & no one will be the wiser.
After all, if you don't read
it in your newspaper, or hear it on your TV news; it didn't happen, right?
To address this invasion on
our freedoms, it is One Nations policy to withdraw from all UN treaties that
impose such restrictions.
Transfer of Telstra & telemarketing services
offshore
Wk06/04 we have received many
complaints of Telstra call services being answered form Bangalore in India;
this is obvious from the accent. Telemarketing jobs are also at risk as this
work is also going offshore, as a result of globalism; this situation will
become worse when GATS is finally introduced.
POSTAL
SERVICES
The Australia Post
organization was set up by the Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 & the
Commonwealth Authorities & Companies Act 1997, it consists of:
The Board. The board sets the corporation's objectives,
strategies & policies.
The Managing Director. The managing director, who is a member of the board,
is responsible for the day-to-day management of the corporation.
Executive Committee. This is the peak body of senior managers who advise
the managing director on strategies & policies put to the board for its
endorsement.
Group Managers. Group managers are responsible for state
administrations. These are consistent with state government areas, with the
exception of Victoria & Tasmania, which are combined into a single
operating area, & South Australia & the Northern Territory, which are
similarly combined. This structure will be changed in 2000-2001, with a
New Mail & Networks
division assuming responsibility for national transport & delivery
co-ordination & the appointment of commercial managers in NSW &
Victoria.
National Corporate Accounts.
Established in January, this new group is responsible for managing all major accounts,
working closely with state-based general managers & sales teams. Highlights
of 1999-2000:
Completing the $510 million
modernisation of the nation's mail delivery network in one of the most
far-reaching change programs undertaken by any Australian service business.
Achieving rises in profit,
productivity & return on assets.
Recording the highest mail
volume growth in nine years.
Maintaining for the eighth
year, the 45 cents standard letter rate-the fourth lowest in the Western world.
Paying more than 170 million
bills for 390 companies through Bill pay.
Piloting major new
initiatives including business banking, electronic Bill pay & an internet
fulfilment service.
AUSTRALIA POST PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH
23 March 2003: The first
steps towards privatisation of Australia Post has been taken with the
introduction of a Bill in the Senate to deregulate postal services.
Senator Len Harris warned
that the Postal Services Legislation Amendment Bill would place Australia Post
at risk if passed in its present form.
“The measures in the
legislation are designed to aid postal industry deregulation & introduce
the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) into postal legislation.”
“The Proposed measures add to
the cost of providing Australia Post’s services without providing certainty as
to the benefits to be gained.”
“ Part of the uneasiness
about this Bill stems from the government’s requirement for an independent
review of Telstra’s Community Service Obligation by the ACA. This model is now
suggested for Australia Post.”
“The Australia Post
privatisation agenda is being driven by the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in
Services (GATS). We know that in 2002, the EU was pushing a trade deal to
liberalise mail services, throwing them open to overseas companies. Under GATS,
mail services are on the bargaining table.”
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT
#03 DEFENCE & SECURITY
One Nation believes the most
fundamental & foremost responsibility of any government is the provision of
physical security for the protection of the nation & its citizens. The
conventional means of affecting this is through the maintenance of a capable
defence force to combat any threat to our sovereignty. Fully supported by
police & well-trained & reserve forces backed by a strong sound
competitive manufacturing capacity. History reinforces the logic that the only
country that any nation can depend on in time of security crises is itself.
POLICY #03: DEFENCE & SECURITY
One Nation will:
Ensure security of our vast
coastline & territorial waters, we will scrap the Collins class submersible
boats, & replace them with modern submarines with stealth, endurance &
lethality, capable of patrolling submerged & undetected, providing pure
offensive devastating fire power, while putting the small efficient, highly
trained & motivated crews at least harm. Requiring no costly at-sea
logistics train, no protective escorts, & no refuelling for life of the
vessel.
Introduce a sound,
competitive industrial manufacturing base as a key element of the national
defence effort. With defence equipment & supplies manufactured in Australia
preferable by Australian owned companies.
Upgrade our surface ships to
provide the speed & endurance to patrol our vast coastline without the need
of refuelling.
Replace the F18 fighter with
the selected aircraft to be manufactured in Australia.
Replace our vintage Leopard
tanks, with modern tanks designed & built in Australia for operation in
Australian conditions.
Scrap the lemon the F88 Steyr
rifle, with a reliable Australian designed & manufactured rifle.
Legally enshrine all Defence
Land to defend it from any future public or private threat of disposal or
change of status or use for any purpose other than Defence use.
Develop, establish &
consolidate a matrix of military training bases, areas & live fire ranges
in accordance with a strategic national plan
Allocate a set ongoing
managed budget to each force based on a percentage of GDP.
Support the planning &
establishment of an Eastern & Western Fleet.
Support the implementation of
credible air-defences for all force elements & sites defined as vital &
key assets
Re-define the roles &
purpose of the Regular Forces & Reserve Forces. Withdraw from all CFR, UN
actions.
Deny the need for pilots to
be commissioned officers.
Transform the Defence Force
into the Australian Military Forces by returning the independent status of the
Navy, Army & Air force.
Support a public call for an enquiry
into corruption within the Department of Defence.
Decentralise & duplicate
defence needs manufacturing plants, vital stores & defence assets.
Reintegrate a continuous
& rotational-based war stores & stocks program.
Ensure all members of the newly
reformed AMF are routinely assessed as being competently trained in a common
set of basic skills that are focussed on battlefield survival.
Ensure recruitment &
training & employment is relevant & need based.
Support sea, land & air
based weapon system & platform upgrades & supplements that meet a
national defence need.
SECURITY
One Nation supports
responsible gun ownership, for the protection of our vast coastline from
foreign & terrorist invasion, & our homes & property from criminal invasion.
The coalitions attempt to disarm law abiding Australians has resulted in a huge
increase in crime especially drug related crime & invasion of home &
property. Today no one is safe in their homes especially our seniors, they need to be protected from the increase in
invasion & mindless bashings.
The escalating crime rate has
had the same effect on insurance costs, to defray this; we suggest discounts to
responsible home gun owners. Illegal invaders & drugs pour into our
country, with little or no deterrent, the only answer is responsibly armed
& trained Australians.
We will withdraw from all
illegally signed treaties that threaten the defence of Australia.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: DEFENCE & SECURITY
The system of defence employed
by Australia dates from 1911, when the commonwealth government instituted
compulsory military service & created the Royal Australian Navy.
Australians were on active service with the Royal Flying Corps. in World War 1
(1914-1918), the Royal Australia Air Force was not established until 1921. The
first enemy attack on Australian territory was the aerial bombing of Darwin by
the Japanese early in World War 11 (1939-1945).
Australian forces have taken
part with distinction in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The Sudan campaign
(1895-1899), the Boer War (1899-1902), both world wars, The Korean War
(1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1959- 1975), & the Gulf War (1991).
Service in the Australian
armed forces is voluntary. Although small, the armed forces are equipped with
modern weapons. Recent labor/liberal governments, due to political correctness
& UN treaties have failed to ensure that we have an affective defence
system.
With the U.S. & N.Z.,
Australia was signatory of the ANZUS Treaty (1952) for mutual defence & support
in case of attack. Due to N.Z. involvement with the radical anti-nuclear
movement in the mid 1980s, ANZUS was suspended, however Australia maintains
military ties with both countries.
Defence & Security covers
the following departments: Australian Defence Forces (ADF), Defence Personnel,
Department of Defence, Emergency services, Military Education & training,
Peacekeeping, Security, Terrorism, War.
THE REAL SITUATION OF OUR
DEFENCE & SECURITY
Australia was born as a military
outpost of the British Empire. The first development for the new colony was a
sound fortification of Sydney Harbour & a permanent garrison of significant
presence.
When Federation was effected,
Australian politicians failed to address independent physical security to
protect its borders & its people. The various State Militias were stood
down as a cost cutting exercise & the burden of national security continued
to rest with Great Britain.
Australian Military Forces
thus remained part of the British Forces because Australian politicians did not
want to spend their own funds on a force that they believed they would never
need. It was not until the Royal Navy pulled-out of Singapore &
inadvertently signalled the green light for Japan to invade Australia that
Australian politicians realised the folly of this ridiculous policy.
The PM was flown to England
to gain the independence of our military forces that should have been secured
40 years earlier. Troops destined for Middle East campaigns were turned about
to return home & stave off the Imperial Japanese Forces in defence of
Australia. Independent control of our security forces did not last long though
because our government then surrendered command of our military to the US
General Macarthur. Since that time Australian politicians continue their
negligence of obligation to Australian's in the provision of national security
by depending on the USA through the ANZUS treaty. The Lib/lab/Dem/Nats
disregard history & retain the ridiculous policy that Australia will always
have ten years lead time of any pending disaster.
Our WW11 survival is mostly
attributed to poor Japanese intelligence. If their belief that Australia's home
guard armies were replaced with the knowledge that Australia was laid bare, New
Guinea would have been bypassed in favour of mainland Australia. A combination
of luck, an armed population, political panic & dire necessity drove our
defence industries into overdrive. By the end of WW11, Australia had the fourth
largest air force in the world. Within a year we were reduced to one of the
smallest through our political compliance with an international agreement (a
League of Nations disarmament policy). The LibLabDemNat governments of
Australia have never provided sound national security. Instead of biding by a
long-term stratagem they simply commission & steer white papers to reflect
an immediate need at the risk & expense of future consequence.
Since the immediate
post-Vietnam War period, Australia's continental defence; based on a Northern,
Southern, Eastern & Western Command; has been dismantled along with the
associated strengths & order of battle.
Essential arms &
equipments have been disposed of & not replaced, or replaced with that of
lesser capability. Defence establishments, vital assets & specialist
military skills have been dissolved to the short-term benefit of LibLabDemNat
governments struggling to balance unworkable budgets, & their associate
real estate barons; but to the long-term detriment of Australia's defence &
security.
The Commonwealth Military
Forces of Australia that comprised the Departments of Navy, Army & Air
force was dismantled in favour of a public servant dominated Department of
defence. To justify the costly cancerous-like growth of civilian & foreign
company infiltration of the defence force, both training & uniformed
presence were targeted. Over only three decades the ADF was halved. Our
population of about 20M remained stable, but our uniformed army component for
example went from about 47,000 to 20,000. Of that 20,000 we would be lucky to
field 3,000 troops. Battalion war-establishment strengths dropped from about
1,000 to about 650 & were stripped of integral support systems that allowed
a limited unit-level operational independence.
Every operationally deployable
unit is now rendered totally committed to external support at the outset. The
standard of basic equipment's & clothing were reduced so that instead of
being designed as 'protective' they are designed as 'cost effective' - but at
what 'cost'? The cost of creating physical risks to our service persons? The
bulk of the force is "top heavy' with to many chiefs & not enough
Indians. Defence industry & warehouse were closed down & sold off to
countries of potential future threat to Australia. There is no longer an
in-built redundancy of ranks so it is unlikely that deployed units can rely on
affective rotation, battlefield reinforcement or re-supply in place.
Any practical use of the
military invariably creates an 'over-commitment' & subsequent retention problem
because most units are significantly 'under-strength' & any redundancy of
personnel, was stripped away through "civilianisation" programs, that
in time of need will be classed as 'no-shows'. This is because the bulk of the
reserves are made up of personnel already employed as 'essential services
personnel', such as police, fire, ambulance etc, & also spouses of regular
serving members, whom would be deployed because they would be caring foe
offspring etc.
A system was created to
accommodate mates of the influential called Direct Entry Officer (DEO) &
allows command rank status to persons with absolutely no military experience,
knowledge, training or aptitude particular to being a uniformed service person.
A peacetime environment of 'Jobs for the boys' has resulted in the paybacks,
kickbacks & incompetence that are now the order of the day.
We now have a continent whose
military force, charged with the protection of national sovereignty, is totally
dependent on other countries to supply it with the most basic & critical
needs. The LibLabDemNat governments even closed down our ammunition factories,
Australia is presently
incapable of operating a credible national security force independently of
other countries. There is however no need to depend on any country other than
Australia. There is no defence need of the world that Australia cannot produce
in isolation. All we need is a government that will do it.
DEFENCE & SECURITY A
SENERIO TO BE KEPT IN MIND
The first responsibility of
government is defence-of the nation, & of the citizen.
Following World War 11, the
Labor Government disposed of nearly 500,000 rifles & Bren guns in reserve
stores, then destroyed 100,000 FNSLR 30 calibre rifles (world class weapons).
These were replaced with 37,000 Steyr Carbines .223 calibre with key plastic
parts, & its believed the army was required to warn troops not to fire more
than 90 rounds in nine seconds, because of risk of meltdown.
Many volunteers in the last
World War were equipped with broom handles & the like because we had
insufficient firearms available.
The Labor Government sold the
Lithgow small arms factory to Asian countries where it, no doubt, is in full
production, Footscray Ammunition factory was sold to Indonesia &
Maribyrnong Ordinance factory was also closed & sold. With it went the
equipment for producing guided missiles. Because of this we have on capacity to
defend ourselves.
On the Kokoda Track
approximately 2000 young Australians, average age 18, faced approximately
10,000 Japanese. Had these youngsters NOT been proficient with firearms what
would have happened to Australia?
This was part of our
tradition of Australian self-sufficiency & Helped in the last war with the
Japanese. Japanese intelligence confirmed that the Australian population was
relatively well armed & highly competent in their use. As a consequence the
Japanese military gave Australia's population militia status & focused on
taking all the islands to the north before any attack on the mainland was
seriously considered.
Australia has signed more
than 2000 UN edicts, i.e., one #1983 Section Four, Para 11-General &
Complete Disarmament. Is Australia's current move towards total disarmament
a knee-jerk reaction to Port Arthur or is it just another step towards
compliance with the confusing & obfuscating UN convention #1983 camouflaged
under the title Sex Discrimination Para 11?
What chance have we, as
recent happenings have shown with Indonesians becoming Muslim Fundamentalist,
& if they have a fatwah they could easily land 2,550,000 armed people on
our shores without committing any of their main military forces! A Dunkirk in
reverse! viz: 250,000 boats each carrying ten armed fanatics, with motorbikes
& hand operated hardware, landing simultaneously on our northern &
western shores, just after the cyclone season. Our meagre forces would be
totally in sufficient, especially the Beazley floating coffins & Australia
without firearms at home wouldn't be capable of mustering a guerrilla force.
Many
thanks to David Hoy for his paper on "The real situation" & Paul
Ensor for his "Scenario on defence & security"
FIRE ARMS
One
Nation will set up a register of prohibited firearms owners, including, those
with criminal records, mentally disturbed, drug addiction, etc. These records
to be recorded on crim-track.
The
escalating crime rate has had the same effect on insurance costs, to defray
this; we suggest discounts to responsible home gun owners.
Illegal
invaders & drugs pour into our country, with little or no deterrent, the
only answer is responsibly armed & trained Australians.
One
Nation will withdraw from all illegally signed treaties that threaten the
defence & security of Australia.
The
above policy statement on firearms originates from our Defence & Security
policy, which we believe should be a national policy for all Australia. The
following is from our SA State policy.
Firearm
legislation shall provide for a safe & responsible ownership & use of
firearms. Whilst it is paramount that all Australians be protected from the
illegal use & abuse of firearms, measures to control & apprehend those
who illegally or irresponsibly use firearms are not to be used as a tool to
obstruct, harass or penalise legitimate law-abiding firearm owners.
Firearm
owners deserve to have their confidence in government restored through the
re-establishment of the principle, "innocent until proven guilty".
With this principle in mind firearm legislation, indeed all legislation, must
be formulated on the basis of common sense.
ONE
NATIONS BELIEVES
Shooting
is a legitimate sport & pastime & participants should be treated
accordingly.
Australians
have the right to defend themselves & their families in their own homes.
Disarming
law abiding Australians is not in the national interest & will do nothing
to reduce crime.
The
problem is all legislation to date treats the gun owner as a criminal, whilst
criminal face little if any restrictions, for this reason licences do nothing
to control the illegal use of firearms, they are only used to raise revenue
& harass responsible gun owners.
Due
to this harassment many responsible gun owners, have gone to ground choosing
not to register their guns, as to do so immediately targets them as a source of
revenue & a target for knee-jerk political legislation.
Restrictions
on use & storage of guns, has reached a point of stupidity. eg. For defence
a gun must be handy for use, to deter criminal invasion of the home, not locked
up where every criminal knows it’s not a deterrent.
ONE
NATION members many who are responsible gun owners object to being treated as
irresponsible & criminal. We believe in formulating our policy that we
should not get drawn into this way of thinking, that the current coalition
governments are promoting. It would be against all ONE NATION'S principals;
therefore we should take a more positive & realistic approach with our
policy.
One
way to control guns is at the point of import & sale, with a register being
kept of all makes, models, & serial numbers. (Note Customs Dept has
detailed documents pertaining to all imports)
This
way if a firearm is sold to anyone on the prohibited list or used for criminal
purposes, it can be traced back through crim-track & customs records to the
minister responsible for its importation, or those responsible for its sale. It
also provides for the following:
A
point where types of firearms being imported, can be controlled, with
restrictions being placed on assault type weapons.
Credentials
of the purchaser can also be checked.
Provides
one central accessible checkpoint on all firearms.
Eliminates
the costly in-effective state by state system now in force.
Any
firearms used for criminal activity, to be destroyed & the offender charged
with assault. This will take guns away from criminals.
Firearms
dating back before the days of customs controls, or point of sale registration,
are usually old & many are now collectable items.
Responsible
gun owners are those who have been taught to appreciate the finer points of
engineering in their guns, & there safe use. This is usually handed down
from Father to son or through responsible clubs & maybe military training
etc.
Accidental
deaths or injuries from guns of responsible owners is minimal, virtually nonexistent
compared with others.
Criminals
will always find a means to illegally import weapons; it is the responsibility
of the appropriate minister to stop this.
Guns
as such do not harm anyone; it is the use of them by irresponsible people or
criminals. The blame for this lies squarely with the responsible ministers, not
responsible gun owners.
Finally,
consider the fact that this is all a big lie; the real reason for the problem
is abrogation of coalition parties of their responsibility to the Australian
people, ignoring the Australian Constitution & illegally signing foreign
treaties.
eg:
Gun laws originate from the "Convention on the elimination of all forms
of discrimination against women", in which the Government committed
itself to "general & complete
disarmament".
There
will be no registration fees for legitimate owners.
SPOTLIGHT ON GUNS (By Joe Bryant)
Greetings
law abiding citizens; I thought you all would like to see the truth about the effect
of gun laws. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were
forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by
our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500
million dollars.
The
first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent,
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies
are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides
with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note the obvious, that while the
law-abiding citizens turned their guns in, the criminals did not! Surprise,
surprise.)
While
figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery
with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since
the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also
been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.
This
result bears out the information available from US records, information ignored
by Australian politicians and the popular media. You won't see this on the
evening news or hear your governor or members of parliament being outraged by
the escalation in crime in line with disarmament of law-abiding citizens.
The
Australian experience proves it again. Guns in the hands of honest citizens
save lives and property and, yes, gun control give the criminal element open
slather.
The
above is not the case because law abiding citizens regularly used their guns
but because of the possibility that they may. Facts beyond the comprehension of
many until their aged parent is assaulted.
All
who campaign to disarm the law abiding citizen are traitors along with those
who actual legislate it. How much proof do you need before the penny drops??
DISARMING OF
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS TO REMOVE RESISTANCE TO GLOBALISATION
National
governments are required to disarm their own citizens so there can be no armed
resistance to the world government at that level. Despite denials by
bureaucrats, plans to disarm Australians were well under way before the
governments Port Arthur massacre.
In
1983 the federal government signed the Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Discrimination against Women. One of the articles in the
preamble of that Convention states: “Affirming that…general & complete
disarmament…will contribute to the attainment of full equality between men
& women.” That meant civilian disarmament. To implement that Convention in
Australia the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 was passed, & the preamble to the
Anti-discrimination Convention appended to it as a Schedule.
Before
Australians could be disarmed, some event of major impact had to happen to
justify it. On the Afternoon of 28 April 1986. a shooter entered the Broadarrow
Café, Port Authur, Tasmania. According to the book ‘Deadly Deception at Port
Arthur’ by Joe Vialls, the shooter shot 32 people with a high powered assault
rifle which he fired from the right hip at approximately one second intervals.
In a space of a couple of minutes, with 29 shots, he shot 32 people, killing 20
people & wounding 12-a kill-to-injury ratio of almost 2 to 1 – exceptional
by all standards. What Australians weren’t told is that all but one of those
killed (19 out of 20)
were
killed with single shots to the head. Only a highly skilled counter-terrorist
shooter could achieve such a result. The man serving life for the massacre is
Martin Bryant, a left-handed intellectually impaired, registered invalid with
no training in the use of high powered assault weapons. According to military
experts it is impossible for Bryant to have done it.
Ref: ‘22 Steps to Global Tyranny’ by
Graham Strachan. ‘ON, SA Firearm policy’ by Colin Gibson ‘
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#04- EDUCATION, SCIENCE & TRAINING
One Nation is committed to a
fundamental level of education, which encompasses at the very least, writing,
reading, spoken skills & expression combined with essential mathematics. To
ensure this we will replace the UNESCO "PROGRESSIVE" system with a
full "SYLLABUS" system. Emphasis on responsibility & competition
& discipline. We will reinstate School Inspectors & ensure Christian
Values, Patriotism & Morality. Aptitude tests will be conducted to ensure
students are directed towards an education in line with their capabilities.
One Nation proposes the
elimination of politically correct science & upgrading of real scientific
research.
POLICY # 04: SCHOOLS, TRAINING & YOUTH
Compulsory attendance at
schools for all Australian children
Harsh penalties for parents,
who do not send their children to school, or who do not make an acceptable
effort to ensure that their children are educated to an acceptable standard.
This standard must include English language proficiency.
Attracting male teachers back
into the occupation, so that numbers equal those of female teachers.
Curriculum: The school system
should seek to provide literacy & numeracy, & a very generalised
knowledge & skills base, which would
enable students to graduate with the ability to accommodate a wide range
of occupational futures. Additional features should include life skills,
including parenting, work environments & social responsibilities, scripture
& Christian values in place of "moral autonomy".
Discipline: Each school community
should be free to decide on their own discipline policies, within reasonable
constraints
School fees: As all state
primary & secondary education has already been funded out of taxpayer
contributions, further fees should be illegal, with the exception of private
education. Funding to state & private schools will continue on an equitable
value based on student numbers.
Funding: Statistics show that
70% of students attend public schools however due to concern over the drop in
standards many parents have been forced to send their children to private
schools. One Nation will distribute funding in accordance with the attendances
& needs, but to qualify all schools must return to a syllabus system &
improve their standards. Private schools will be closely monitored to prevent
funds from going to those involved in subversive cults & terrorist
activities.
Universities & other
tertiary institutions: One Nation believes post secondary education is the
critical component of occupational training. Statistics show that only 30% of
students go on to universities & a large percentage of them drop out for
various reasons. Therefore based on this, more emphases & funding will be
put into the return of indentured apprentice & TAFE training. This not only
provides them with the necessary skills, but it provides a background to
continue on to further education if & when required.
One Nation would provide a
bursary system to pay for training & education where skills are desperately
needed e.g. Doctors & nurses in public hospitals.
One nation will change the
education system to encourage responsibility & self-discipline & skills
in line with employment opportunities
One Nation will re-introduce
full time indentured apprenticeships & traineeships.
One Nation rejects the
privatisation of education, spending on public education will not be reduced,
however the system will be refined & made accountable to what is taught,
time & funds will not be wasted on politically correct subjects, emphases
will be directed to essential subjects. Students will not have to get into debt
to pay for their education, as it will be made affordable.
United Nations Treaties: One
Nation will withdraw from all treaties that have not been legally accepted by
the people as per our constitution. Politically correct propaganda will be
removed from all educational institutions, devoting time to meaningful
teaching, thus reducing much waste of student time & resources, reducing
costs & bringing further education within the reach of those who desire it.
One Nation opposes pseudo
science with funds only being granted for politically correct subjects. This
has forced most of our real scientists to leave Australia to pursue scientific
research.
One Nation is aware that
today’s youth are faced with many difficulties, current hypocritical programmes
committing us to Globalisation & GATS, has lost 90% of our manufacturing
industry & destroyed job opportunities. Resulting in record youth
unemployment, causing despair & suicide. Without a complete change in
direction to tackle the root cause of the problems current government
programmes are just a waste of time.
One Nation plans to provide
our youth with the hope of a future. The drug culture will not be condoned or
tolerated in our schools or colleges. Teachers will be trained to detect &
discipline those involved with drugs. Strong anti-drug measures will be put in
place to detect & swiftly bring to justice those who attempt to introduce
our children & youth to this evil soul destroying culture.
One
Nation will debate further a suggested form of youth civil service programme
that could be beneficial for training & self-discipline
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: #04-EDUCATION
Education encompasses the following
departments: Accreditation, Continuing Education, Education Authorities &
Institutions, Educational Resources, Grants, Higher Education,
Literacy/Numeracy, School Education, Students, Vocational Education &
Training.
One Nation opposes UN/UNESCO
imposing a "PROGRESSIVE" system to change the direction, content
& method of education in all countries of the Western World. UNESCO's
Director-General Julian Huxley, a leading member of the Colonial Bureau of the
British Fabian Society, explained its official plan: "The goal of UNESCO
was stated plainly in the study's first volume...Children should be educated in
those qualities of citizenship which provide the foundation upon which
international government must be based if it is to succeed..." This involved
the neutralisation of children's love of country & patriotism, the eventual
suppression of history, & the breakdown of the home & family life.
The violent events of 1974-75
in the USA caused not the slightest doubt: humanism & its
"progressive" materialist education was as much a religion as that of
the theists. By the most conservative estimates, 100 students were murdered in
high schools throughout the nation, & countless others were viciously
attached; 10,000 girls were raped, & 70,000 teachers punched & beaten,
some with such weapons as bicycle chains. Here was the effect of rejecting
Christianity & its culture; here was "humanism" in action, firmly
established, out of control, its results beginning to show. Between 1963 & 1977
educational performance fell unbelievably & the penny dropped in the public
mind: 2,800 Government schools & colleges were closed something that had
never happened before in American history.
By 1976 in Australia's State
of Victoria 30% to 40% of children leaving primary school had a reading ability
less than that of ten-year-olds, "functionally illiterate" according
to Stewart Sykes, Monash University lecturer in special education. "The
Age" quoted him saying that without basic skills in reading & writing
such children are obviously committed to school failure, frustration &
discouragement. The real tragedy is that much of this failure could have been
avoided by more effective initial teaching".
How right he was for over the
next two decades this has continued resulting in 62% of major crimes
perpetuated by the young, under 21. 67.7% of those caught were under 17.
Senior teachers &
educators of integrity have always known that reading difficulties can be
avoided by the use of phonics & have continued to use the method; but as
they retire, the grip of UNESCO's policy of political indoctrination &
deliberate under-education tightens. For now teachers themselves cannot spell.
The teaching of English has failed dismally, according to teachers themselves
(personal communications): Australian children who want to know about the
grammar of their own language have to learn a foreign language. This is not an
exaggeration: incompetent teachers are unable to teach grammar, not having been
taught themselves.
The teaching of the "new
maths" system confused the child's mind, destroying his logic, turning him
away from science & engineering as a calling. Implementing the UN &
UNESCO policy "to delete family attitudes", school children are
skilfully turned against parents through the use of scorn & cruel intrusion
into the Child's privacy & modesty.
Parental influence on
education is almost nil, though government education authorities offer
lip-service invitations to parents to mollify them. Most parents are only too
happy to believe the teachers & accept that schools are responsible for all
guidance of their children, yet will not allow corporal punishment when it is
richly deserved.
Parental ignorance &
neglect of children by working parents is partly to blame for increasing crimes
of violence & vandalism, some parents & teachers having no control over
children at all. That teachers are not allowed to act appropriately is a
situation encouraged by legislation to prevent disciplinary action. To many
young people become a load on the taxpayer instead of their parents being held
financially responsible.
IN TODAY'S EDUCATION Children are not taught what is right or wrong.
Teachers are instructed to teach "moral autonomy" in place of
Christian values of the past. Children have to decide for themselves what is
right & what is wrong. This even extends to drugs: experimentation is
thereby encouraged.
In a situation where children
do not know & teachers cannot tell them what is right & wrong &
where children are supposed to learn from each other, class discussion
deteriorates to a situation where one articulate student who happens to read
something more than others can impose his/her will on the entire class. This is
the way that antinuclear, greenhouse falsehoods & myths have been
perpetuated through the community.
School-burning costs the
Queensland taxpayer large sums a year.
When children are taught that "what feels good after you do it is
good" & denied guidance to what is right & wrong, anything is possible.
A form of academic madness prevails: it could not be called education.
One labor MP said. "The
only way to ensure a good moral Christian education for your children is to
take them out of the state system." The question is why should you be
forced to do this, & why the many who cannot afford it have Labor's UNESCO
system thrust upon their children.
One Nation believes everyone
regardless of means is entitled to a good education system, with emphasis on
responsibility, competition, discipline & free from Labor's/UNESCO
indoctrination. Children should not be exposed to moral danger & be free
from drugs & paedophiles.
Education in Australia is in crises
Almost all standards of
education have fallen, over the past four decades, & governments &
teachers defiantly ignore the deep concern expressed by parents, industry &
commerce, & the wider community. In a democracy, how could this be? The
origins of this crises go back thirty-five years.
There were three essential
causes. One of these was, & continues to be, manifested through a series of
UN treaties; another has been the gradual erosion of democratic process in
Australia. The Third has been the teaching profession itself. The following
condensed explanation provides another point of view.
The certificate, diploma or
degree is now considered to be more important than the effective &
productive function of the qualification holder. It matters little that most of
our professionals are incompetent, or that reality has been converted to paper.
It is now more important that a person is qualified. For what, does not appear
to matter.
This focus on paper realities
effects all occupations & workplaces.
We now have nurses who are so
busy filling in "patient care" forms that they haven't time to care for their patients.
We have police officers who
are so busy with paperwork. liaising with the community, & attending
lectures, that they have no time for protecting the public from criminals.
We have academics working in
isolation, deciding the community's priorities, & making the rehabilitation
of paedophiles, rapists & violent robbers a priority, while dismissing
protection of the community or restitution for the victims.
We have qualified but
completely unmotherly childcare helpers, & we have licensed childcare for
profit.
We have an army of qualified
"work health & safety" experts giving lectures in offices around
the country, while the rate of industrial accident fatality soars.
The effects on employment
& productivity are endless & readily evident. Moreover, government
process itself is undermined. Eg;
Although discrimination is
illegal, action is taken only if the victim is black, young, female, poof or
migrant.
Government repeatedly makes
decisions that are opposed by the majority. Unsurprisingly, all universities
support this situation.
The common thread in these
developments is the doctrine of elitism & its harder edge,
anti-egalitarianism, promulgated by universities throughout the education
system, but more particularly through the schools.
The academicisation &
feminisation of school education is having disastrous results.
From the point of view of
student employment prospects, the picture is grim. The myopic push to academia
will mean a larger future pool of unemployable degree-holders. It will also mean
highly paid degree holders who provide no discernable product or demonstrably
needed service, while desperately needed skilled jobs & trade positions go
unfilled.
In the meantime, universities
are ruthlessly clawing education funds to themselves, starving TAFEs that
cannot compete with the full time lobbying impact of voracious
vice-chancellors, & thus denying the majority of the population access to
further education at realistic hours or reasonable prices.
The academic elitism in,
& feminisation of, Australian schools are believed to be the main causes
of:
Male students' failure to
achieve
In the increasing alienation
of young males from mainstream society, &
In the youth suicide rate, in
which males outnumber females by eight to one.
Possibly contributing to the
social alienation of non-academic female
Seriously exacerbating, &
often actually causing, youth unemployment.
All of the above will
eventually & inevitably provide major contributions to the breakdown of
social fabric, of Australian family life & culture, & of law &
order.
January 2004: The Controversial issue of School funding is looming
up as a major election issue. At the moment, private schools do not have to
meet the same accountability arrangements as public schools. The federal
government has a responsibility to make sure all children in all schools get a
high quality education, however due to its commitment to a UNESCO social
education system, the Howard Government will spend more money on private
schools in 2004 than on public schools & universities. The aim of
privatisation of education under the new global order will not be to impart
knowledge. It will be to condition children to be obedient global citizens.
Teaching political correctness rather than knowledge has blown out the cost of
education, wasting time money & resources whilst the real level of
education is rapidly declining.
Due to globalism, & the loss of 90% of our industry, few of the companies left provide
opportunities for apprentices or trainees. Thus there is little opportunity to
obtain vital on the job training. Thus
school leavers have little choice left other than to seek university education,
which now guarantees them debt with little job prospects.
Ref:
‘Australian Education’ by Tony Ryan. ‘The
Hellmakers’ by John Grover. ‘22 Steps to Global Tyranny’ by Graham Strachan.
SCIENCE
The Commonwealth Government is involved in science through
the following departments: Geosciences grants, Life sciences, Meteorology,
Physical sciences, & Space Science.
Governments have taken the
soft option on science, we once led the world in science, the Australian Atomic
Energy Commission & the CSIRO were foremost in vital areas of research. Due
to globalisation & loss of industry scientific opportunity has been lost,
this must change.
PROPOSALS TO RESOLVE YOUTH PROBLEMS
One Nation is concerned about
the dum sizing & moral destruction of Australian Youth. By replacing the
full syllabus education with a progressive system from UNESCO (United Nations
Educational Scientific, & Cultural Organization) illegal treaties.
Children/Youth are not taught what is right or wrong, teachers are instructed
to teach ‘moral autonomy’ in place of Christian values of the past. They have
to decide for themselves what is right & what is wrong & ignore their
parents. This even extends to sodomy & drugs; experimentation is
encouraged. Because of this our youth are now confronted with a situation where
only 2 out of 5 will have the opportunity of a real job, its no wonder we know
have one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world.
One Nation will withdraw from
all treaties & trade agreements that endanger our rural, manufacturing
industries & fair trade that result in loss of jobs.
One
Nation will encourage youth into pursuits such as school cadets, & various
gun clubs, & voluntary organization
such as Surf Life Saving, St Johns Ambulance, Sunfish & various fishing,
boating & sailing clubs & the many other organizations that will
provide them with an interest & skills that will benefit them & the
community.
Ref:
‘The Hellmakers” by John Grover. ‘Globalization’ & ’22 Steps to Global
Tyranny’ by Graham Strachan.
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT
#05-EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE RELATIONS
One Nation believes that
re-industrialisation is the best way of creating lasting full time employment
with positions for skilled, semi-skilled & unskilled workers. This,
combined with training Australians rather than importing skills, tax &
economic reform, rescinding of harmful treaties, & industrial relations
policy based on fairness & equality for all Australian employees &
employers will enable our manufacturing, business & rural industries to
compete on truly level playing field.
One Nation will make creating
employment & the reducing of unemployment & all its associated social
ills our major objective.
One Nation's Industrial
Relations policy is based on fairness & equality for all parties concerned,
with emphasis on protection of employees & contractors entitlements while also
protecting employers from dishonest, disruptive, unsuited employees, or abuse
of power by Unions or union officials. The important role unions have played in
Australia is recognised & the continuing need for workers to have access to
assistance to negotiate their wages & conditions is acknowledged;
membership of unions will continue to be voluntary.
POLICY: EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE
RELATIONS
If a country has an
agricultural base from which to feed the people, industrial infrastructure, a skilled
manufacturing base, abundant energy & mineral resources, & a healthy
united & educated population, it has the essentials to become self
sufficient. If that country is barren of opportunity for its young, unable to
care for its aged, dependent on goods & finance from foreigners, &
unemployment among its workforce is
rife, the problem is political ineptitude & economic mismanagement.
One Nation's Industrial
Relations policy is based on fairness & equality for all parties concerned,
with emphasis on protection of employees & contractors entitlements while
also protecting employers from dishonest, disruptive, unsuited employees, or
abuse of power by unions or union officials. The important role of unions have
played in Australia is recognised, & the continuing need for workers to
have access to assistance to negotiate their wages & conditions is
acknowledged; membership of unions will continue to be voluntary.
For details please refer to One Nation Industrial Relations
Federal Policy 27/9/98 (note most of these items come under state policy)
Status of Unions &
Enterprise Bargaining.
Compulsory Unionism.
Australian Work Place
Agreements
Australian Industrial
Relations Commission
Industrial Action
Accountability of Unions
& Audits
Minimum Wage
Sick Leave
Workers' Compensation
Employment Advertising
Unfair Dismissal Laws
Employee Participation &
Incentives
Federal & State
Awards
Employee Protection-Business
Bankruptcy
Independent Contractors
(Security of Payment)
Role of Government in
Relations to Employment & Unions.
Reforming the tax system, by
introducing the National Debit Tax to make it more attractive to employ
workers, eliminates unemployment.
Training programs based on
the needs of industry & business providing indentured apprenticeships, to
further skills & higher education. We need to return to indentured
apprenticeship based training, recent governments have discouraged it, due to
their policy of dismantling our industrial base, these positions have not been
available, so most kids have been forced to stay on at school, just to keep the
unemployment numbers down. The ideal age for apprenticeship is after third year
at high school, at the age of 15-16 years, an age receptive to discipline &
learning. The majority are now forced to stay another 2 years at school, at
which time it is usually to late for them to successfully enter a trade, most
are not suitable for an academic career, so we have this huge problem with
youth unemployment.
Nursing is a typical example,
many girls who would have made excellent nurses, have been lost due to the
disbandment of on the job apprenticeship training, for academic training. This
is reflected in the shortage of nurses, & drop in standards of care in hospitals.
Engineering trades have
suffered the same problem, & we are fast loosing all our skills as the
older generations retire & there is none to hand them down to. Apprenticeship training is the ideal base to
go on to almost any field, or position, most of our top engineers started out
this way.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING
EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Australia's chronic
unemployment is a national disgrace, & economic policy needs to be
restructured to make jobs growth a top priority
The Commonwealth Governments
Employment & Workplace Relations (DEWR) covers the following; Employment
Services, Government Employment, Grants, Occupational Health & Safety,
People with Disabilities, Superannuation, Vocational Guidance, Working
conditions.
Some of the employment
services are now farmed out to private companies. However despite all these
programs employment continues to diminish & unemployment grows especially
full time jobs. Why is this happening? because we no longer have industrial
growth to provide jobs. Due to government policies most of our manufacturing
industry has gone off shore. Starting with the Lima agreement, where the
objective was to transfer 25% of our industry to so called lesser developed
countries.
Next came microeconomic
reform, data produced by a leading research organization (Physical Measurements
Laboratories) their powerful computer modelling in 1992 projected full time
unemployment rises to 40% in 2001.
Now the government has
embarrassed globalism as its new economic model. From the book "The Global
Trap" by Hans-Peter Martin & Harald Schumann, they are predicting 80%
unemployment in the future.
Under globalism in this
century, 20% of the population will suffice to keep the world economy going. A
fifth of all job seekers will be enough to produce all the commodities & to
furnish the high value services that the world society will be able to afford.
The bottom 80% will have almighty problems; they will have to depend on charity
or social services.
POVERTY
There is growing controversy
over the increasing practice of Centrelink turning away hardship cases, telling
them to try St. Vincent de Paul.
Government funding to these
agencies fell last year but 80,000 people were referred to it by the Government
In the last thirty years the
proportion of people on middle incomes has fallen by 50% & is still
falling! (ABS,IBIS) Our middle class is disappearing & becoming the
"working poor". One in every seven Australians is now classified as "poor",
that is existing on half or less, of the average wage.
Worldwide, 385 Billionaires
now control as much wealth as 2.7 Billion people! The gap between the rich
& the poor is widening dramatically.
Multinational companies now
control two-thirds of the world trade, & one third of the world’s
resources.
With these facts in mind, it
is evident that it is impossible for any of the current Governments schemes to
create any real jobs.
Unemployment in Australia is
listed at 7%-9% but in fact it is much more, (re above figures) given that a
person working minimum hours per week or as a casual is not counted as
unemployed.
All the Governments Mickey
Mouse solutions have failed. The only way to create employment is by
revitalising manufacturing in Australia. The major unsatisfied market is
energy; this is required by all nations.
Australia has been blessed
with abundant supplies of energy; we must exploit this to our advantage in much
the same way as OPEC has done.
History & research has consistently
shown that a strong manufacturing sector is essential for employment growth. It
is quite clear that Australia's future is dependent on the prosperity of the
manufacturing sector
Each Australian government
has the obligation to nurture & protect the industries, which employ its
citizens, rather than being subservient to UN treaties designed at destroying
our industry, employment for our people & economically controlling us.
AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS COMMISSION
The functions of the AIRC are
broadly summarised as follows:
To facilitate agreement
making between employers & employees or organizations of employees about
wages & conditions of employment
To ensure that a safety net
of fair minimum wages & conditions of employment is established &
maintained.
To prevent & settle
industrial disputes, so far as possible by
conciliation, & where
appropriate within limits specified by the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WR
Act) by arbitration.
To facilitate equal
remuneration for work of equal value
To conciliate claims for
relief in relation to termination of
employment, & if
necessary to arbitrate whether a termination is harsh, unjust or reasonable.
To deal with matters
concerning organizations, particularly
registration, amalgamation, cancellation, representation
rights, alteration of eligibility rules
& change of name.
Members of the Australian
Industrial Relations Commission are appointed by the Governor General upon the
recommendation of the Federal Government of the day.
The Workplace Relations Act
1996 provides for a President, two Vice Presidents & an unspecified number
of Senior Deputy Presidents, Deputy Presidents, & Commissioners
Members of the Commission
include primary appointees & dual appointees whose primary appointment is
to a State industrial tribunal.
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06-ENERGY & MINING (Natural Resources)
POLICY
STATEMENT: #06 ENERGY & MINING
One Nation is committed to a
national energy policy, ensuring that Australian's have access to, &
benefit from their abundant supplies of energy, without the price impacts of
OPEC, foreign exchange, excise taxes & flawed Kyoto accords.
We will control our energy
resources, & encourage the use of efficient true renewable energy, cleaner
autogas & remove deadly aromatics from petrol, reducing liquid fuels prices
up to a reasonable cost, & provide nation wide uniform fuel pricing.
Australia is blessed with
tremendous mineral reserves, the challenge is to mine & value add to these
& in so doing, produce wealth & jobs for all Australians.
POLICY # 06: ENERGY & MINING
Energy is defined as, 'the
ability to do work'. Australia has been blessed with huge energy resources. One
nation will the up the challenge is to convert these almost boundless resources
into useable forms of energy, to provide our people & industry with this
essential commodity, at the lowest possible prices.
One Nation believes all
mineral & energy resources belong to The Commonwealth of Australia
(Australian people). This includes profits from sale of these resources.
Resource rental taxes will be levied on private developers, with forfeiture
upon failure to develop them.
One Nation is committed to
ensuring that Australian's have access to our abundant supplies of energy,
without price impacts, of OPEC, Kyoto accords, excise taxes, & deregulation
etc.
One Nation proposes
reinstating the National Energy Research & Development Corporation, to
undertake research, exploration, development, & marketing of all our energy
resources. Our proposed National Super Fund would be an ideal of capital for
energy resource development, with foreign investment limited to 49%.
One Nation believes Australia
has an opportunity to play a major role in defusing explosive world situations
caused by induced shortages & profiteering in energy, we can ensure
supplies at sensible export prices, from which our economy will benefit.
One Nation will encourage the
use & development of new technologies for cleaner more efficient fuels
& conversion to energy.
One Nation is committed to
clean energy & will legislate to ban all harmful aromatics from petrol,
whilst pricing Autogas at one third the price of unleaded petrol to encourage
its use as a cleaner fuel alternative.
Australia’s oil fields
produce excellent quality low sulphur diesel fuel. One Nation will ensure that
this is available for our rural, transport, marine industries, without the
impact of OPEC & excise taxes on prices.
One Nation believes pricing
of Australian produced energy for local consumption should be based on
realistic wholesale pricing covering cost & fair profit margins for
producers, refiners, distributors & retailers, a small road funding tax,
OPEC pricing, excise & other taxes will be removed. (Refer to briefing
data)
One Nation believes Australia
could become a major exporter of energy, in such case we suggest that export
prices be set at world market (OPEC) prices in A$, from data available from
past projects. The value of energy exports would be in the vicinity of
$Trillions, job creation would be tremendous, the A$ would also return to its
real value.
One Nation will ensure
large-scale electricity generation remains in public control; we oppose
privatisation of this important industry, as it has failed dismally.
One Nation opposes the sale
of uranium yellow cake & will process it into fuel rods, leasing them for
electricity generation with by products
to be returned for re-processing. This
is the only true method of control & in turn is worth $ trillions to our
economy. We believe in true renewable energy, recent scientific research puts a
new light on what is really renewable energy.
WHY AUSTRALIA NEEDS AN ENERGY POLICY
Self Sufficiency: in
2000-2001 Australia produced 42,753 million litres of liquid petroleum (crude
oil, condensate & Liquid Petroleum Gas), which is 95% of the demand for
liquid petroleum products-44671 million litres.
Australia has eight major oil
refineries that are capable of producing enough petroleum products to easily
supply the domestic market & export as well. However as we have no energy
policy, we no longer own or control our industry, that is 92% foreign owned, so
these refineries source only about 40% of their crude oil requirements from
Australian fields.
Petroleum & gas accounts for
about 75% of Australia's bulk energy requirements, electricity accounts for
about 25%, however to satisfy demand for cleaner cheaper electricity, we have
no choice other than the power of the atom.
PARITY PRICING, SURRENDERING OIL, GAS & MINERAL
DEPOSITS TO FOREIGNERS
The Federal Government,
working with the foreign oil companies, plays us as suckers. Our Prime Minister
told us, there was a world shortage of crude oil, & we must go into a thing
called PARITY PRICING.
PEAK OIL SCAM
By
now most everyone has heard that we are about to reach “peak oil” the point
when the global oil supply diminishes. This now appears to be another lie just
like the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) lie used to justify the invasion
of Iraq, ‘peak oil’ is a program designed to justify higher oil prices.
Most
involved in the energy industry have been aware of this, & the fact that
oil is a ‘RENEWABLE & ABIOTIC FUEL?’
Oil
has been called a ‘fossil fuel;’ based on the idea that it comes from formerly
living organisms. This may have been plausible back when oil wells were drilled
into the fossil layers of the earth’s crust; but today, great quantities of oil
are found in deeper wells that are found below the level of any fossils, or
decomposed living matter, if it exists in rock formations far below layers of
fossils, & shows no fossil trace it means its back to the drawing boards.
Any
reputable geologist will tell you that OIL IS CREATED BY MAGMA OF THE EARTH.
Oil wells that were pumped out dry at the turn of the century & capped are
now filled with oil again.
Oil
Companies & governments created the concept that it was of limited supply
& therefore extremely valuable. This fits with the “Depletion” allowance
philosophical scam.
Most
can remember stories about the middle east oil wells running dry by the 80s, it
did not happen to day there wells are just as full as they continue to replace
the billions of barrels being pumped out.
At
home in Australia we were told that our country had little oil & it would
soon run out, & to ensure further exploration & ensure supplies we
would need to increase prices to OPEC parity pricing & we are all aware at
what this has done to our pump prices for fuel & the drastic effects its
having on our communities & economies.
The
truth is there is no shortage of petroleum in Australia, in fact the country is
awash with it especially gas. Australian oil is what is known as a light sweet
crude, in other words its low in deadly sulphur & is ideal for diesel,
petrol, avgas etc., we are 97% sufficient in petroleum products with only the
need to import about 3% of heavy crude oils for bunker fuels, bitumen etc.
Our
oil fields such as Barrow, Bass Straight & Moonie are still producing oil
for $2 to $3 dollars a barrel, in fact all our oil fields are producing for
well under $10 per barrel (six cents per litre). Gas is produced for $120 per
tonne about (three cents per litre), this is exported to countries such as
communist China on a twenty-five year contract for less than three cents per
litre CIF.
Based
on these facts it is estimated that the uniform prices of fuel in this country
should not exceed the following;
Petrol $ 50 cents per litre
Diesel
$ 40 cents per litre
LPG $ 20 cents per litre
(The
above prices provide all in the chain huge profits)
Ref: “The Deep Hot
Biosphere” by Dr. Gold. “The genesis of
Hydrocarbons & the origin of petroleum” by Dr. Kenney “
Power from the Earth Deep Earth Gas”—Energy for the Future” by Thomas Gold.
One Nation will ensure the
integratory of our territorial boundaries & withdraw from any treaties that
endanger them (Timor Sea Oil & Gas fields)
Australia's has huge reserves
of all the major forms of renewable & non-renewable energy, these are worth
trillions of dollars, & should be used for the benefit of Australians, in
much the same way as Alaska did We propose an energy policy to ensure our
energy resources benefit the people of Australia.
Our energy policy will ensure
that our vast energy reserves are used for the commonwealth of all Australians,
in a similar manner to OPEC countries in their export pricing structure, whilst
domestic market is exempt from such loadings & taxes.
The OPEC pricing of export
fuels will be used to provide funding to encourage the change over to clean
fuels ‘Autogas’ a 50% subsidy of conversion costs of new, low mileage &
restored vehicles. Manufacturers will be encouraged to supply new vehicles
designed for gas only operation at lower prices than petrol vehicles.
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PREAMBLE & BRIEFING BACKGROUND:
.
ENERGY
The Commonwealth Governments
Natural Resources portfolio covers Mining & Energy. These two items are of
such importance to Australia that One Nation believes that there should be
separate policies for each of them. Currently the coalition has no Energy
Policy, other than to use it as a means of exploiting Australian with high
pricing & taxation
One Nation will control &
develop our energy resources for the benefit of all Australians not just a few
multinationals. Ensuring world supplies at market prices, defusing explosive
world situations caused by induced shortages & profiteering. We propose
reinstating the National Energy Research & Development Corporation, to
undertake Research, exploration, development, & marketing of all our energy
resources.
All mineral & energy
resources will be the property of The Commonwealth of Australia. Foreign
investment will be encouraged but not more than 49%. Resource rental taxes will
be levied with forfeiture upon failure to develop them.
The retrogressive taxes on
petroleum fuels will be abolished & all other impediments to oil & gas
exploration & production in Australia removed. This would reduce costs,
assist exports & create employment.
Pricing for local consumption
will be based on realistic wholesale pricing covering costs & fair profit
margins for producers, refiners, distributors & retailers plus a sensible
tax level to cover road funding etc. All excises will be removed.
To protect the environment,
& public health we will encourage the use & conversion to Autogas,
& low sulphur diesel, remove aromatics from fuels, & foster more
advanced energy technologies.
As a major exporter of
energy, export prices will be set at world market prices in Australian dollars.
Income from this will go into consolidated revenue, for the benefit of all
Australians.
Energy defined as, 'the
ability to do work'. Australia has
been blessed with huge energy resources. The challenge is to convert these
almost boundless resources into useable forms of energy, to provide our people
& industry with this essential commodity, at the lowest possible prices.
Our Energy Policy, has a
number of key objectives, namely: Diversify the Australia's energy mix towards
the greater use of high technology efficient & environmentally friendly
sustainable sources, such as gas especially Autogas, remove aromatics form
petrol. The deadly witches brew of aromatics that replaced lead, these are
Dimethyl benzine, Mesitylene, Toluene, Xylene, Benzene. All declared
carcinogens that will cause asthma, leukaemia & other cancer related
illnesses. Catalytic converters add to the health problem causing chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS). By fitting of an inexpensive Australian developed
devise we can eliminate the need for expensive & deadly catalytic
converters, ULP & LRP.
We suggest you pester your
State & Federal MP, with the facts & ask him or her what happens if
their children or grand children get cancer, asthma or CFS & the blame can
be laid on something we did not need but was forced on us. Maybe effected
groups can get together & take out a class action due to neglect of the
duty of care of the public.
ETHANOL
The question is why do we
need alternatives such as ethanol & Biodiesel, when we have unlimited far cheaper
supplies of renewable energy?
Recent studies at Cornell
University, proves that producing ethanol is more trouble than its worth:
131,000 British thermal units of energy are required to produce a gallon of
ethanol, which in return only produces 77,000 btu of energy. In other words
producing ethanol results in a loss of energy. This explains the wholesale
price of 75 cpl, compared with petrol of
6 cpl; there is also the risk of damage to fuel systems, & environmental
consequences. Each crop produced depletes the soil.
Adding to or replacing the
aromatics already in ULP with ethanol provides a real threat to health &
environment. Ethanol destroys paintwork & fuels systems, plastics harden
& crack, fuel lines dissolve, thus the growing increase in mysterious
vehicle fires.
GAS
Like oil Australia is
self-sufficient in gas, with unlimited reserves, & gas fields close to
hand. Whilst it cannot compete cost wise with nuclear energy in power stations
for large scale electricity generation, the main virtue however is that it can
be reticulated safely & cheaply to domestic & industrial users &
burned there to provide heat. It is also a valuable chemical feedstock. Because
its cheap & plentiful, & scientific research shows its renewable, it
provides an ideal virtually pollution free automotive fuel. Autogas or
Liquefied petroleum gas LPG is the generic name for mixture of hydrocarbons
(mainly propane & butane).
When these mixtures are
lightly compressed (approx 120.psi), they change from a gaseous state to a
liquid. LPG can be obtained from
several sources. Most commonly it is extracted directly from 'wet' natural gas.
It can also be obtained as a by-product of the petroleum refining process,
where it is normally burnt off into the atmosphere.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF AUTOGAS
Added to this is the
additional bonus of less engine ware, most modern internal combustion engines
can be converted to run on autogas.
The efficiency of the
internal combustion engine is low, less than 30% in the energy conversion
factor. The recent development of fuel cells may eventually replace the
internal combustion engine, as this technology is claiming an 80% efficiency,
production costs will be the key factor. Gas will provide an ideal fuel source
for fuel cells.
However to be able to utilise
Autogas as a fuel for internal combustion engines, there are costs of
conversion for most vehicles of around $2000. There is also a drop in distance
per litre compared with petrol, due to the difference in volumetric weight
& efficiency. Thus its necessary to price autogas to make it attractive
enough to compensate for these extra costs. Therefore until the recent price
escalations
Autogas was priced at approx.
one third the price of petrol. This allowed for conversion recovery costs at
about 30,000 kilometres.
The Federal Government has no
excise tax on LPG, as an incentive to encourage its use. Recent research
reveals that many oil & gas fields are replenishing themselves without any
fossil trace, this source of energy appears to be renewable.
Australia produced 4,367 mega
litres of natural occurring LPG & 1,674.4 ML of refinery produced LPG in
1999-2000. Exports were 2,858.9 ML. Local consumption was 3,603.6 ML of which
1,902.9 ML was Autogas. Since price deregulation in 1991, OPEC CP has set
pricing eg. 1995 US$121/tonne=A$0.03 cpl, 2001, US$239.00/tonne =A$0.07 cents
per litre. Deregulation & OPEC pricing have provided the industry with huge
profits.
Australia now a major world
supplier of gas with huge resources, indeed so much that Mr Howard recently
negotiated a 25-year contract with China for supply of 3.3 million tons of CNG
gas for three cents per litre CIF. The question that needs to be answered, is
why do they export gas at cost price CIF, then allow foreign oil companies to
sell it to us at 15 times the
price. Not good management or
responsible government.
Based on this we estimate
local prices as follows:
Production cost 0.03
cpl
Profit margin for
producers 0.02 cpl
Distribution costs 0.03 cpl
Road maintenance &
construction taxes
0.03 cpl
Fixed profit margin for
retailers
0.05 cpl
STATE WIDE UNIFORM RETAIL
PUMP PRICE 0.16cpl
There
is a $12,000 fine for using LP Gas (Autogas) in a camper or a domestic gas
stove. This has noting to do with safety it is just another rip off. The same
gas sold for cooking is $3 to $4 a litre (providing them a nice little profit
at the expense of Australians)
SYNFUEL
Australia
with our vast resources of natural gas could be also converting this to petrol
for about 7 cents per litre, using a process invented by Adelaide University in
1976 & financed by Mobil Oil. This processed known as the Mobil Methanol-to-gasoline
(MTG) process is employed at the Motunui Synthetic fuels plant near New
Plymouth, NZ from its vast off shore gas fields. But is this additional cost
necessary when in most cases nature is already doing it?
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Geothermal
heat over the whole world is less than one-sixth of its needs. But some
volcanic areas are sufficiently endowed to be harnessed effectively to provide
for regional industrial needs, as in New Zealand, Japan, Ethiopia & Italy.
The geothermal electricity stations are small – That in New Zealand generates
only about 150 megawatts of electricity.
Geothermal
heat from hot rocks 3 kilometres or so below the surface has been harnessed in
Paris to produce hot water for heating apartment houses. A similar experiment
is underway in the USA.
This
Hot Dry Rock (HDR) progress is most encouraging. A hot reservoir at 185 deg. C
has been formed & tested at an extraction rate of almost 5 megawatts of
thermal energy. This is to be increased to 50 megawatts electrical energy. Such
a reservoir should last 30 years at the very least.
Though
not yet fully developed or tried, the geothermal source of energy in the first
10 kilometres under the USA is estimated to be of the order of 13 million
quads! (1 quad=1quadrillion British Thermal Units.
Another
development will be the use of geothermal power deep in salt domes 5,000 to
18,000 metres below the surface. Based on 1980 figures the cost of geothermal
electricity cannot compete with today’s nuclear electricity.
Geothermal
energy can supplement but not resolve the world needs, it is somewhat like
solar energy OK for low scale energy requirements (e.g. solar hot water
systems) but not economically viable for large scale energy requirements
AUSTRALIAN CRUDE OIL
One barrel of crude oil contains
42 U.S. gallons, this yields:
·
· 9 gallons of gas & oil distillates
·
· 4 gallons of lubricants
·
· 3 gallons of heavier residues
·
· Total:
40 gallons
HISTORY OF FEDERAL OIL TAXES & LEVIES IN AUSTRALIA
1900 Customs levied on oil
imports
1901 Excise on petrol
introduced when first oil refineries established in Australia.
1902 Excise on diesel for
on-road use introduced
1926-1959 petrol excise revenue
directed to Federal road grants.
1959 revenues from petrol to
general revenue
PRICING FOR AUSTRALIAN PRODUCED CRUDE per/barrel
1964 Moonie prices
$ 2.15
1965 First prices scheme $ 3.14
1968 Price reduction for Bass
Straight oil $ 2.42
1970 5 year pricing agreement
for Moonie oil $ 2.15
Bass Straight oil $ 2.06
Barrow oil $ 2.21
1974 The Whitlam government
added a levy of $ 2.00
1978 The Fraser government
increased the levy to $ 3.00
Total top price for
Australian produced crude oil $ 5.21
1984. 6 monthly indexation of
petrol excise, by labor 6.15cpl
1985. Labor increased excise
by
7.5 cpl
During Labor’s term in office excise went from 5 to 35 cpl
1997-2000 Liberal’s have
retained fuel excise taxes introduced by Labor increasing them & adding GST
to about 42 cpl
Production cost is still very
much the same today. In Queensland pipelines deliver oil & gas directly
from the fields around Moonie to the refineries at the mouth of the Brisbane
River; these refineries supply oil & gas for Queensland & Northern NSW.
Estimates of production costs
in Australia vary greatly up to about 3-6 cpl, however as our energy resources
are foreign owned or controlled, they escape paying tax under the foreign
reciprocal tax agreement, so huge profits go offshore without any benefit to
Australia.
Only when the Debit-tax
replaces the GST will they pay their far share, in the meantime Australian's
suffer. Based on this & above pricing data, the estimated price of petrol
should be as follows:
Production cost (estimated at
$10 per Barrel/42) 6 cpl
Profit margin for
producers 5 cpl
Cost of fuel
distribution 5 cpl
Road maintenance &
construction taxes (state)
5 cpl
Fixed profit margin for
retailers
5 cpl
TOTAL UNIFORM PUMP
PRICE for petrol 26 cpl
Based on the lesser cost of
production we estimate the pump price of Diesel & Kerosene should be around
20 cpl, or less.
OPEC less price for
Australian crude oil is less than $10.00 per barrel.
OPEC no longer has the power to control world pricing, due to a number
of factors eg: huge reserves coming on line from Russia, Australia, Alaska etc.
& increased use of nuclear energy.
(current petrol pump price of say $1.20 per litre = $192 per
barrel, this gives some indication of the profiteering)
Verifying the pricing deceit.
Diesel fuel in Australia is supplied to multinational companies tax free at
10-14 cpl, Petrol is sold at the pump in Venezuela @ 8 cpl, Autogas at the pump
in Japan is 9 cpl, pump price in Indonesia petrol 23 cpl, diesel 11 cpl, OPEC
countries petrol is under 10 cpl, Iraq 1 cpl, we export LPG CIF to Communist
China for 3 cpl.
For every cent of increase
over 30 cpl, $370 million goes to the government & oil companies. The
government receives $2.7 billion pa. in resource tax rental.
What chance has Australian
industry of competing on this basis, when we are paying up to 500% more for our
liquid fuels than we should.


ELECTRICITY
The Electricity Supply
Systems in Australia is characterised by a long, high voltage transmission
network, along the eastern portion of the country this network is connected to
QLD, NSW, VIC & SA & is operated under the National Electricity Code as
part of the National Electricity Market. Other smaller networks supply
electricity to the remainder of Australia. The Transmission & Distribution
networks are Government owned & regulated, these authorities spend about
10% of your power bills competing against each other. ONE NATION will stop
these & reduce power bills. Generation is carried out by a mixture of
Government & privately owned power stations.
Coal & uranium compete
for base-load electricity generation, as a general rule countries without cheap
coal tend to favour nuclear power.
In Queensland where coal
reserves & production potential far outweigh domestic needs, the use of
coal prevails despite the environmental problems. But coal has a limited
future, & we should sell off as much as possible whilst we still have a
market for it, as the world is rapidly switching to nuclear power.
Currently over 435 nuclear power
plants are in operation in 17 countries, 30 more are under construction &
hundreds more are planned.
Countries with nuclear power
include: Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Hungary,
India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands,
Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, UK, USA.
SOME COMPARATIVE ELECTRICITY GENERATING COSTS CENTS
PER KWH
ONE NATION opposes the
privatisation of our electricity generation & supply system. We can learn a
lesson from what happened in California & Victoria. Where shortsighted
environmental policies & greed prevented the construction of new power
plants, resulting in rolling blackouts, huge price increases, factory shutdowns
& job losses.
Privatisation & the Kyoto
accords will do for Australia what California's have done for that state. It
will drive up energy prices, which from the above chart are already high by
world standards, by compelling electrical power plants to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions or pay hefty "carbon taxes" for burning fossil fuels. This
will make Australia's goods more expensive & discourage new investment in
manufacturing. It is predicted that if we go down this path only two fifths of
the population will have a job.
ENVIRONMENT
The conversion, transport,
storage & use of energy in its many forms do have some effects on the natural
environment. In recognition of this, & the rapidly changing technology in
energy sources in use today, it is important that we adopt these cleaner &
more efficient, sustainable & environmentally friendly forms of energy.
For example, fossil fuels,
such as coal currently provide 39% of the worlds electricity. Modern coal-fired
power stations are more efficient than in the past & new Scrubber
Technology will scrub out 99.8-100% of sulphur dioxide SOx & around 90% of
NOx & can also reduce Mercury. The best part of this technology is that the
bi-product is fertilizer. HEP Dynamic Classifier can improve boiler
performance. Although this technology provides the answer to the environmental
concerns for the future of the coal industry, energy conversion factors are
still low, this may be resolved in the future with fuel cell technology, which
is claiming efficiencies of 80%.
Renewable energy sources such
as gas offer much lower pollution levels, however for super clean safe &
cheap electricity, the world is turning to the power of the atom, with hundreds
of new high tech plants under construction, or planned.
ENERGY CONVERSION HEAT VALUES & CARBON
COEFFICIENTS OF VARIOUS FUELS
Heat value % Carbon CO2
Biomass (wood) 16 MJ/kg 42 g/MJ
Black coal 24-30 MJ/kg 67 90 g/MJ
Ethanol 30 MJ/kg
LP Gas 49 MJ/kg 81 59 g/MJ
Natural Gas 39 MJ/kg 76 51 g/MJ
Crude Oil 45-46 MJ/kg 89 73 g/MJ
Hydrogen 40 MJ/kg
Uranium LWR 500,000 MJ/kg nil nil
Uranium FBR 24,000,000 MJ/kg nil nil
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
ONE NATION is committed to
promoting sustainable energy development within Australia to provide the people
of Australia the competitive & environmental advantage from our vast energy
resources.
Sustainable is defined as:
"To keep up or keep going as an action or process"
Sustainable energy aims to
provide non-fossil energy, from Australian sources, to improve living
standards, without harming finances, both now & in the future. in a way
that conserves & enhances the community's resources on which life depends.
A significant part of moving
towards a sustainable energy sector is sourcing from & processing our own
abundant resources, eg: non fossil fuels such as gas, oil & the atom.
Scientific research proves
that non fossil fuels are unlimited & renewable. Gas & oil do not come
from decayed vegetable matter rather it is driven of the magma (molten core of
the earth) It comes up as gas, its trapped, condenses & by a
chemical/bacterial process changes to condensate & eventually oil.
Agenda 21 (The Kyoto
protocol) is another UN treaty
formulated by the Rockefeller foundations to maintain the high price of energy,
on the pretext of climate change. Scientific evidence shows that these accords
are essentially fraudulent & a disaster of international pseudo-science.
There is no convincing
scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other so called
greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere & disruption of the Earth's
climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in
atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural
plant & animal environments of the Earth.
According to the latest
scientific reports, climate change is caused by sun spot activity, &
anything done by man has little or nothing to do with it. Once again the whole
greenhouse hoax is just another stunt to raise the price of energy.
The Federal Government's
Australian Greenhouse Office Mandatory Renewable Energy Bill requires the
generation of 9,500 gigawat hours of high cost electricity each year from 2010,
commencing from April fools day 2001. It forces electricity consumers to source
2% of their supplies from so-called renewable green sources of energy. This is
expected to cost residential consumers & farm community over $500 million
extra over the next decade.
The Kyoto Protocol & its
carbon taxes would raise energy prices, in this country & the growth of
domestic product would be cut by more than half as those few businesses left
moved offshore.
Therefore it is the duty of
ONE NATION to unit in public condemnation of the Kyoto Protocol through all
possible communication channels.
We must educate the public
about the relationship between cheap energy & manufacturing, & between
manufacturing & economic power. Our country's standard of living &
military security must not be sacrificed to trendy, feel good political
correctness.
If we allow our future to be
determined by this misbegotten document, forget about your present line of
work. You'll need to learn a new trade, one that will require you to make frequent
use of the question; "Would you like fries with that".
References:
Briefing data "Unleaded Fuel The facts". "Unleaded/Leaded
facts" www. file://C:\My%20Documents\unleaded.htm.
The
lies of unleaded petrol (Pt.1.2.3.) www.nexusmagazine.com/ulp1-2-
3.html. Briefing data "The good
oil on Fuel Prices". & "Energy" .
"Kyoto
Protocol is a Mistake" by William Levinson, CMfgE, CEI, PE, SME snr
member. www.sme.org. "Ethanol Guzzles Gas" study by David Pimentel,
professor of ecology, Cornell University. "No role seen for ethanol, MTBE
in cutting smog. The National Research Council report. Environmental
Consequences of increased use of Ethanol & Alkylates in California Fuels.
Legal notice executive order by Governor Gray Davis.
www-erd.llnl.gov/ethanol.
"The Struggle for Power" by John Grover.
Liquid
Petroleum Gas" www.aip.com.au/education/. "Nuclear electricity"
Ian Hore-Lacy UIC & Minerals Council of Australia. www.uic.com.au. Australia must go Nuclear by
Jonathan Tennenbaum.
The Australian 19/11/03:
Destruction of Tasmanian Hydropower, Tasmania always had the advantage of cheap
hydro-electricity. That was until Greenpeaces treatuos tree hugging fairy Senator
Brown came on the scene from Canada with instructions from Rockefeller to stop
the Franklin Dam & thus the start of the destruction of the Tasmanian
economy. Tasmania is now so short of electricity that it is now faced with
having to run a cable undersea from Victoria at an estimated cost of $785
million. Much of this power will come from expensive green electricity, form
Victoria’s privatised grid, guess who owns the grid & Basslink?
National Interest Issue #33. The
Timor Gap Dispute is just a ploy to steal our oil
In 1993 Anti-Australian
bureaucrats & politicians conspired to defraud the Australian people by
transferring Australia’s oil finds to Transnational Corporations (Moneymen)
(via Indonesia) by shonky treaties. Timor has no rights to claim our oil, in
simple terms there are two methods of settling boundary between maritime
nations. The first is the deep water line. The deep water puts the boundary
within a couple of hundred kilometres of the Timor coastline. All of the oil is
on our continental shelf by international law.
The second method is a
complex computation of equidistant points from coast to coast. Our coastline is
not Cape York, Amhern Land, Darwin, WA, Broome etc. It is measured from Sabai
(10 km off the New Guinea coast), Deliverance, Ashmore, Christmas, Cocos etc.
so the continental shelf & the oil on it is ours.
AUSTRALIA SOLD OUT BY
MINISTER
The
Australian 5-8-05: Federal Minister Ian Macfarlane made it clear that he has
been bought by the CFR to stop the development of our multi-trillion dollar
nuclear industry.
There
is a rapidly growing demand for fuel rods to supply the worlds demand for cheap
clean energy, Australia with over 40% of the worlds known uranium reserves is
in the box seat to satisfy this demand & at the same time control it by
demanding return of spent fuel rods for reprocessing. Prices of uranium have
trebled in the past two years to about $30 a pound & if processed into fuel
rods its value increases enormously, it is estimated that it would provide an
export income of 3 to 4 trillion dollars over the next ten years, &
thousands of jobs, at the same time we could eliminate any misuse & stop
any potential terrorist activity.
As
a vast majority of the world’s oil is consumed in generating electricity it
will reduce the price of electricity & the demand for oil which in turn
forces down the price. This would also benefit about one-third of the world’s
population that does not have access to cheap reliable electricity, it would
also be a shot in the arm for the world economy & eliminate the need for
war with Arab oil countries.
Communist China alone plans to commission 49
gigawatts of nuclear power stations within the next 15 years, Taiwan, Korea,
Japan, India, Indonesia also have huge expansion plans for nuclear electricity.
MINING (Natural Resources)
Our objectives are basically
in line with that of the Minerals Council of Australia. Additionally we support
value adding to our minerals, by processing them here, ensuring jobs & wealth
for Australian's. We welcome foreign investment but would like it limited to
49%. Our policy is one of equality, in which all mineral resources belong to
the Commonwealth of Australia for the benefit of all Australians.
We do no support the Native Title
Act & other divisive discriminating legislation; we will work to reverse
such legislation. We will also withdraw from treaties, which are harmful to our
industry & of no benefit to our country.
The Mineral Council of
Australia has a Mission to promote the development of a safe, profitable &
environmentally responsible minerals industry that is internationally
competitive & attuned to community expectations.
The vast range of minerals in
Australia includes: Aluminium, Coal, Copper, Diamond, Gold, Iron, Lead,
Magnesium, Mineral Sands, Nickel, Silver, Tin, Uranium & Zinc.
Due to space limitations it
is not possible to provide here full details on these minerals, but it is
available on the following web site www.minerals.org.au.
The Australian Mining Industry
gives lip service to free enterprise but "chicken out" when they come
up against the Canberra bureaucracy. Their attitude of currying for favours is
typical unfortunately of not only the big mining companies but of most major
companies in Australia.
This weakness has allowed the
well-funded environmentalists to insidiously sabotage our nation, effectively
bringing Australia to its knees by crippling the mining industry.
In dealing with the growing
menace of the environmentalists it is futile to quote facts to counter their
lies & propaganda. One should aim at their jugular vein; why do they wish
to subvert the Nation?
Where does the their money
come from? Who activates & controls their movements?
It is now well documented who
controls & funds them, & how these organizations have profited
tremendously from the disruptions caused.
Starting with the contrived
oil crises of the seventies, when they were able to increase the price of oil
fourfold, with the result that the oil dependent nations of the world had to
expend so much of their foreign exchange in purchasing oil that their capacity
to purchase other goods was correspondingly reduced: hence a drop in world
trade, & huge increase in debt to the foreign banks who are the only ones
to prosper from all the turmoil. They are even capable of causing wars to
ensure their control over oil, & forcing up the price to further their
profits.
These same banks have used
the environmentalists & aboriginals to bring our mining industry to a
virtual halt, by saddling it with huge costs & red tape. Their litany of
lies has delayed development of cleaner alternative sources of energy, whilst
at the same time forcing upon us through their control of UN financial &
environmental organizations, many evil & illegal treaties such as agenda 21
& the Kyoto accords.
These will take away our
sovereignty & ensure our future poverty.
Ref.
"Wake up Australia" by Lang Hancock. "Struggle for power"
by John Grover. "Decent into slavery" by Des Griffen.
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ONE NATION POLICY #07 - ENVIRONMENT
One Nation will ensure the
protection of the Australian environment, including National parks, oceans,
waterways & atmosphere, for the benefit & enjoyment of all Australians,
now & in the future.
There will be no
debt-for-equity swap to expunge part of the national debt with the IMF/World
Bank for Australia's national parks & wildlife.
We will foster the
development of advanced efficient cleaner energy technologies, encourage the
use & conversion to Autogas, & low sulphur diesel, & remove deadly
aromatics from petrol.
We will not ratify the Kyoto
accords & withdraw from agenda 21 & other treaties, which are
essentially negative & counter productive & a disaster of international
pseudo-science, & dangerously interfere in the climate system.
POLICY #07: A CLEAN SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL
AUSTRALIANS
One Nation will with draw
from all treaties that threaten our land usage & environment.
One Nation opposes the flawed
Kyoto accords, & imposing harmful carbon taxes on Australians.
One Nation believes water is
a valuable resource; therefore it is essential to conserve it. (Please refer to
policy #17 "Water" for details).
One Nation opposes the
discharge of sewerage to bay & ocean outlets. We propose treatment &
recycling of wastewater wherever possible, & piping it inland for
irrigation & improving flow of inland river systems.
One Nation proposes the
culling of feral animals in our national parks, by sporting shooters controlled
shoots, this is a proven method.
One Nation encourages
conservation, however we battle the charlatans who tell us that conservation is
a source of energy.
One Nation is pro-energy, but
is critical of piddle-power projects that masquerade as significant energy
sources.
One Nation is
pro-environment, but we don't favour projects such as solar, wind & biomass
which unfailingly have enormous environmental impact.
One Nation opposes those
environmental groups & green parties, funded by foreign interests with
hidden agendas.
One Nation proposes realistic
environmental policies, to protect, & improve our environment, for all
current & future generations of Australians.
One Nation will ensure our
national parks are kept for the free enjoyment of the people & protection
of habitat. Park rangers will be mainly sourced from voluntary organizations
& provided with adequate funding to ensure parks are maintained to
acceptable standards. We will ensure they remain for Australians now & in
the future & not fall into foreign hands such as World Heritage or sold off
as debt for equity.
One Nation will implement the
Coastal Protection Act nation wide, with buffer zones to protect the habitat
& access to our beaches, coastline, bays & waterways, bringing the
numerous & mostly ineffective organizations under one umbrella.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING : ENVIRONMENT
The Federal Government
Department of the Environment & Heritage This department (Environment
Australia) is the Commonwealth Government's major environmental agency, &
is responsible for achieving the Government's environmental objectives,
domestically & internationally. They claim their policy is to a natural
& cultural environment, valued, enhanced & protected in harmony with
the nation's social & economic goals, & to deliver national leadership
on environmental issues.
However in reality they do
little to protect the environment, rather they promote the hidden objectives of
globalism, enforcing UN treaties aimed at destroying our economy, imposing high
energy prices, debt for equity over of our National Parks, wildlife, mineral,
energy, water resources, & restricting farmers on use of their land.
They are also racially
divisive, favouring aboriginals, ignoring indigenous Australians.
Many of the policies are
based on the flawed Kyoto accords & agenda 21 that dangerously interfere in
the climate system.
GIVING AWAY THE SOIL
In June 2000, it was revealed
that the federal government plans to do a debt-for-equity swap to expunge part of
the national debt. The swap involves Australia's northern World Heritage
areas--the Barrier Reef, & the Daintree Tropical Rain Forest, & Fraser
Island, which would become the property of the IMF/World bank. The Third World
has lost many of its natural resources in debt for equity swaps, the IMF took
the Lunata National Park from the Philippines to reduce the national debt.
Australia's northern World
Heritage areas have now been officially valued by the Chairman of the Wet
Tropics Management Authority, Tor Hundloe in conjunction with the World
Bank/IMF. The World Bank has prepared a report entitled "Expanding the
Measure of Wealth", analysing the dollar value of agriculture land,
pastoral land, forests, national parks, metals & minerals, coal, oil, &
gas. Mr Hundloe confirmed that Fraser Island was listed as World heritage
because of its "large dollar value as a protected area." The Blue
Mountains west of Sydney & various other areas of value especially those
with mineral resources have since been designated World Heritage.
At the Sunfish AGM in August
2002, it was reported that, World Heritage was attempting to ban all recreation
fishing in coastal waters adjacent to the barrier reef. This will cost the
local industry millions of dollars & thousands of jobs. The Australian
government has abrogated their duties to Australians in favour of globalism.
ONE NATION is the only party to expose & oppose this.
The Kyoto Protocol is an
instrument signed by many national governments in Japan in 1997, by which they committed
themselves to targets for the reduction of so-called greenhouse gas emissions
by specified dates.
This document is being used
by many states to prevent farmers from clearing their land, & will result
if ratified by the federal government in their having to pay tax in respect to
methane emissions from their cattle & sheep, ploughing their land, &
harvesting crops.
Eventually we will be paying
for the air we breathe & carbon dioxide we expel. Already carbon is listed
on the futures market & is being traded from $10-200 per tonne, with
brokers taking up to 45% in commissions, Guess who pays, these accords will
become the greatest fraud ever, as their is no scientific evidence that carbon
is harmful to man or that their is any evidence of harmful amounts of warming.
The Convention on Biological
Diversity will result in bureaucrats coming onto farms & declaring certain
areas off limits because they are protected habitat of allegedly endangered
species.
All living plants absorb
carbon dioxide. All decaying plants produce carbon dioxide. A new forest
absorbs more CO2 than it produces. An old forest is largely in equilibrium,
releasing as much CO2 from its floor as it absorbs by photosynthesis. By far
the easiest & most effective way to produce energy while reducing carbon
dioxide (& various pollutants) is to use more nuclear energy.
A man in Denver was recently
subdued by the police who sprayed him with mace, handcuffed him, bound his feet
& fastened his handcuffs to his hobble. The man died. Kyoto attempts to
handcuff civilization by reducing carbon dioxide production, & to hobble
civilization by banning nuclear power.
SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING
from China Post, Republic of
China (Taiwan) 24/12/02.
Beijing is experiencing its
longest period of snow in 161 years; straining resources to the limit &
sometimes beyond, state media & officials said Monday. The city of 13
million has seen five consecutive days of snow for the first time since
meteorological officials started keeping records in 1841, Xinhua news agency
reported.
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
The federal government now
stands by while Australian farmers bulldoze orange trees & the country
imports orange juice from Brazil. The public think 'giving preference to
exports from developing countries' means a hand-up to the underdog. What the
Australian people are not told is that "Brazil" does not mean
Brazilian peasant farmers, it means
multinational owned orange
plantations, planted on land cleared by bulldozing Amazonian rainforest &
using former peasant farmers as cheap labour.
EXPOSING THE GREEN FRAUD
It seems clear that the
wealthy multinationals (eg; Rockefeller Brothers Fund,) through their funded
organizations (eg; Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Transnational, etc) are
not averse to seizing genuine issues to use as fulcrums for centralising power.
Increasingly through the eighties & into the nineties the environment has
provided such a fulcrum. This is made easy because if there is a genuine
environmental crises. It is largely the product of a world debt-crises that has
forced soil-degradation, pollution, chemical destruction, enormous waste &
built-in obsolescence.
The bankers pushing for world
power, & the multinationals seeking dominance over production &
distribution are the main creators of the crises they now claim the right to
solve. They have coerced considerable numbers of environmentalists into the
idea that world control will solve environmental degradation & create
sustainability.
(Australia has more than its
share of eco-nuts funded by these organizations, including a poffy MP. & a
rock music idle.
ONE NATIONS environmental
policies embrace natural resources, from this the two most important resources
that affect the future of Australia are: ENERGY & WATER. Their significance
is such that we feel they need separate policy portfolios within the
environmental policy.
(Please refer to the attached
policies: #6 Energy, & #18 Water).
Ref:
Global Warming: The Origin & Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus. by
Richard S. Lindzen, professor of Meteorology, MIT Globalisation, "Demise
of the Australian Nation" by Graham Strachan. "The purest of
Motives" by Professor Howard Hayden.
GLOBAL WARMING SO MUCH HOT AIR
When Melbourne University
geologist Ian Plimer examined "4000 million years of geological data"
for evidence for global warming, he stumbled upon an astonishing discovery.
Plimer says "the
Armageddon we humans face is not a pleasant greenhouse warming but a bitter
prolonged icehouse” he says in his new book "A Short History of Planet
Earth" that, while cycles of planetary heating & cooling do exist, the
long-term trend to cooling will be entering in the next hundred years or
"a big freeze." We know Vikings settled Greenland, grew crops there
in the 10th century but had left by 1450 as the Little Ice Age set in. Earth's
climate isn't fixed but dynamic.
According to Plimer,
"there have been enormous climate fluctuations since the last Ice Age
finished 14,700 years ago. Temperature rises have been far greater than the
worst doomsday scenario of today." He thinks the slight increases in
temperature since 1976 could be due to other factors than increased CO2 levels:
"Climate change is just not simply humans putting carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere."
Extraterrestrial factors
include supernovas, sunspot flaring, comets & meteorites are the main
causes of climate change, for example, the little Ice Age from the 14th to the
19th century coincided with reduced sunspot activity. Terrestrial factors
include volcanos throwing up vast amounts of gases & ash; changes in sea
level; continental drift; earthquakes; & wobbles in the earth's orbit.
Another factor is the hard times bringing crop failures & disease. He says
we also have reason to fear the drift away from agridiversity to monoculture.
If the earth experiences a significant climate shift in the colder times ahead
due to something like a volcanic explosion, we might not survive. If he's
right, the public policy implications are very great. Great too the amount of
egg on certain people's faces. Is there any point in reducing greenhouse gases
if there's an ice Age on the way?
Another Australian academic
in earth sciences was sceptical of the mass hysteria & claims of an
imminent ecological catastrophe. As with embryo research, careers are at stake
& there's big money behind these NGO causes. The CO2 increase due to the
Industrial Revolution is just a blip among much bigger natural forces. He said
sea-level rises have been miniscule. It seems the much-touted claim of
scientific consensus
on global warming is just so
much hot air. You really have to wonder about people who regard catastrophes as
useful in their propaganda wars.
Greenhouse & Globalism go
hand in hand, already carbon is being traded on the futures market, &
billions of dollars are at stake. The question who is perpetuating this fraud,
& who is going to pay. Already huge losses on the stock market can be
traced back to companies involved in GH, the Beattie government wasted nearly
half a million dollars on it, which lead to a huge budget deficit. The Gold
Coast City Council is going down the same path, & the rate payers will be
left with the bill.
The Federal Government has
set up a greenhouse office, already it is costing you 500% more for liquid
fuels, & the price of electricity will also increase. When you can no
longer afford to pay they will reposes all you own.
One Nation is the only party
to expose & oppose this fraud, remember this at the next elections.
Ref: The News report.
Greenhouse fear ‘a scam’
Distinguished
botanist David Bellamy has branded fears about global warming as “the biggest
scam to hit the world”
The
UK conservationist said there was no evidence that human actions had caused
temperatures to rise around the globe.
Dr
Bellamy argued that global warming was the result of an entirely natural
scientific pattern, & might even be a good thing.
He
accused governments of needlessly wasting billions of dollars on measures to
cut greenhouse gas emissions. Dr Bellamy also hit out at “scare tactics” used
in the campaign.
“It
is scientifically proven that 99% of the world’s greenhouse emissions come from
natural sources over which we have no control,” Dr Bellamy said. “Yet millions
are being spent which will have no effect whatsoever on global warming. It is a
scientific fact that it is increases in temperature which are responsible for
increases in natural CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels, not the other way around as
the public is repeatedly told.”
However
with Australian Carbon trading at between $10-200 per tonne & brokerage
fees of 45% my god how the money rolls into the IMF coffers, of which 10% goes
to slush funds to buy the honest men in Canberra.
TOXIC WASTE
Toxic or hazardous waste
encompasses a wide range of items: eg. Chemicals, oils, asbestos, lead, mercury,
hospital wastes, plastics, etc it would take pages to list them all. Thanks to
technology, we can prevent, recycle, or eliminate most of the problems. Many
waste materials that previously went into landfills can now be recycled, or
reduced to a state where they are not a hazard.
The
Circulating Fluidised bed Combustor (CFBC) unit allows thermal destruction of
organic contaminants, such as PCBs, contained in soils, sludges, solids or
liquid waste, with a removal efficiency exceeding 99.9999%. Australia has a huge investment in
coal-fired power station that produce a lot of toxic & hazardous wastes,
especially SO.2. However one of our One Nation members is involved with a
company that has just developed & patented new scrubber technology that
eliminates all these turning them into a harmless fertilizer.
Toxic
waste is more an emotional than a real problem, we have now have the technology
to build plants to overcome the problem but no one wants them in or near their
backyard. For instance there was an outcry in Sydney when a Toxic incinerator
was proposed in the outer western suburbs. Another example was when the
Victorian government proposing to locate a toxic soil recycling dump at
Gippsland Water’s Duston Downs site. In Queensland at Alberton we have the
government attempting to pass off a toxic incinerator as a biomass green energy
plant & fund it with carbon credits.
Thus the problem appears to be more of where
to locate these plants, fortunately Australia is a big country & there are
many remote areas where such plants could be located, the problem then becomes
cost related, as transportation is costly. The other problem is the cost
effectiveness & who pays, cost should be to those who profit from the
production of such wastes.
Due
to trade agreements toxic waste imports put food in danger. Toxic waste from
China & other countries is being imported & used as raw ingredients by
some Australian cheap fertiliser manufacturers & distributors, making it
difficult for genuine Australian companies to compete.
One
Nation; opposes globalisation &
believes that by ignoring all the usual green rhetoric & taking a sensible
approach the toxic waste problem can be eliminated.
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#08 FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES
Political correctness has put
rights before responsibility; lack of respect & commitment has resulted in
a breakdown of marriage & the family unit. One Nation believes in restoring
the authority of the family & that responsible parents should not have
their authority eroded by frivolous legislation or UN treaties. We recognise
that the best support we can give to any family is support that keeps the
marriage & family unit intact.
POLICY # 08: FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES
One Nation believes that
safe, secure & happy societies require as a guiding principle, strong
functional family units. We consider governments should recognise this basic
principle & adopt responses that are aimed at long-term family stability.
We recognise the very significant distress suffered by families with children
who have been traumatised through divorce.
Fair treatment for parents
& their children will be pursued & realistic outcomes from the
tribunals expected. Grandparents' & extended families' access needs shall
be considered as a priority for the children in ensuring that their
environments remain stable.
The perception that the
female is the "best" primary care giver & decision maker must be
challenged. Men are also good parents & subject to circumstances should be
afforded equal opportunity in gaining custody of their offspring.
The Family Law Court should
be abolished & replaced with a Family Tribunal. A Family tribunal would
exclude legal interference & eradicate the current adversarial system. In
the unfortunate circumstances of irretrievable marriage breakdown, support
services will be provided that work towards ensuring amicable arrangements
between the aggrieved parents in the best interests of the children.
Compulsory counselling
reinforces societies' values & commitments to the sanctity of marriage
& the individual's commitment to work strongly to retain the marriage vows.
Custody & Access: Whilst
joint custody is theoretically the ideal for all parties concerned, in practise
it can present many problems, which are not in the best interest of the
discipline & upbringing of children. Individual circumstances need to be
concluded, making it difficult to set rules, much more debate is required.
Settlements: This is also a
major controversial area, causing as much or more argument than custody.
Property settlements based on a 50/50 allocation are based on Murphy's Law of
no fault divorce, this may be ideal in theory but in practice it is open to
abuse. Once more further debate is required.
Second Family: All children
from a second relationship should be treated equally; children in subsequent
marriages should be afforded the same futures as those from a previous
marriage.
Statistics: Generally they
show that children of single parent families have a very poor future, for this
reason alone the all effort should be made to keep the family unit in place.
Protection of Families; The
role of the family is paramount in the upbringing of children. We have all met
especially "difficult" children. Parents must have the right to enforce reasonable household rules
by mild physical punishment as a last resort, & any law contrary must be
repealed.
Following the government
heeding One Nations policy to abolish ATSIC, Aboriginals will have equality,
equal rights & responsibility with the rest of the community & will be
entitled to the same services depending on their needs.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING : # 08 FAMILY
LAW
Owing to family break-up,
extreme youth, financial disaster, addiction or mental problems, some parents
or careers are temporarily or permanently incapable of doing a reasonable job
of parenting, & the child is in danger of being physically, mentally or
morally harmed if it remains in the custody of such a carer or parent. On a
showing that such harm is reasonably to be feared, the child involved must be
made a ward of the Crown for a specified period (say one year) & placed not
in a foster home, but in a kindly, well-run institution capable of addressing
(& hopefully repairing) the damage inflicted by the carer or parent. The
expressed desire of the child to stay with the incapable carer or parent shall
not be taken into account by the judicial officer, & no legal aid shall be
provided for the child in any hearing unless so required by the judicial
officer. International treaties have given teenagers rights that are beyond
their capacities to exercise properly. The interference of legal aid in child
custody cases has inflicted excessive costs on the taxpayer. The unsettling
effect of having custody matters coming over & over before the judicial
officer before they can be dealt with because of the number of parties
represented is harmful to the child. If the judicial officer is satisfied that the
present custodian is incapable & no parent capable of caring for the child
is before the court, awarding custody to a caring institution would be better
for the child than further delay in an effort to locate ideal foster parents.
Caring institutions, which formally existed, have been closed by Governments,
but they can be reconstructed.
Available information
indicates that the plague of "Street Children" from which Australia
suffers are in part children whose situation at home (usually a broken home with
unsympathetic step parents or transient males in residence). Children in this
category should be cared for in a caring institution unless & until some
family member
appears who is a satisfactory
carer.
It appears that other Street
Children have come under the influence of drugs or bad companions which is too
strong to be broken by well intentioned parents, Such parents have publicly
requested Government assistance to help them keep their children off the
streets, but are told that unless the child wants to go home, the law will not
require him/her to do so. Again we meet the insanity of Rights of the Child
permitting the child to grow up as a prostitute, thief or druggie instead of
having a chance of avoiding these fates by living at home.
If parental pleading &
lawful coercion will not keep a child off the streets, then that child also
belongs in a caring institution until he attains 18 or wisdom, whichever comes
first.
Both the Casanova & the
Homosexual tend to give sex a very high priority in their lives, Both on
occasions may need to use seduction to satisfy their desires, Their priorities
are wholly inconsistent with those of the husband & father in the
traditional family. All paedophiles come from one of these groups or the other.
Society prohibits active paedophilia but tolerates the Casanova & the
Homosexual provided they are not paedophiles. The distinction is sometimes hard
to apply, but in the area of education of the young, society has always
defended itself excluding the professedly promiscuous & professed
homosexuals from teaching children because of a reasonable fear that the might
attempt to seduce the young.
International agreements
against discrimination have wrecked havoc with this defence against the spread
of homosexuality. The welfare of the family & the nation require that these
parts of international agreements be repudiated.
THE FAMILY AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The release of a study of
Australian families by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown a dramatic
fall in the number of marriages in 2001, & a continued rise in the number
of divorces.
Despite Australia's growing
population, over the past ten years the number of marriages has fallen from
113,900 to 103,100, while the number of divorces rose from 41,400 to 55,300,
the highest level since the introduction of the Family Law Act in 1976.
The decline in marriage &
rising divorce rates coincide with the increase in cohabitation outside
marriage, rapidly increasing age of marriage, & figures showing that 29% of
men & 23% of women will never marry.
Implications: The falling
level of commitment to marriage has also been accompanied by a decline in the
birth-rate, with long-term adverse implications for Australia's population, its
economy, & ultimately, its capacity to sustain its own future.
DESCRUCTION OF MARRIAGE & THE FAMILY
The assault on marriage &
the family began in earnest with the Convention on the Elimination of
all forms of Discretion Against Women (signed 1983). While this purports to
abolish discrimination against women in all aspects of life, its real purpose
was to implement feminist agenda globally. The treaty requires Australia
(Article 5) “to modify the social & cultural patterns of conduct of men
& women” It requires the government to “erase the traditional concept of
the roles of men & women at all levels, & in all forms of education.
It has led to blatant
anti-male prejudice in the administration of the Family Law Act,
in the awarding of custody of children, & in property settlements.
It has led to Domestic
Violence legislation under which men can be locked out of their own homes by
ex-parte orders issued by courts without the men even being present to defend
themselves.
‘Anti-stalking’
legislation empowers courts to issue
a restraint order if a man follows his spouse on one occasion, or even sends
her flowers. Understandably, many men now regard relationships with women as
potentially dangerous.
Another attack on the family
is being waged by the homosexual lobby. The United Nations ‘Year of the
Family’ came & went with almost no activities at all because nobody could
agree on what a ‘family’ was. (Family is defined as man & wife, children
& blood relatives). Homosexual liaisons now have to be included; otherwise there
is ‘discrimination’ on the basis of ‘sexual preference’. Under the doctrine of
‘inclusiveness’ everyone will be a family, or no one will be a family. By the
time every relationship becomes a “family’ the concept itself will be lost.
A wedge between children
& parents is being driven by the Convention on Rights of the
Child (signed 1991), which creates children’s rights against parents, &
empowers teachers & social workers to monitor activities within families.
Children in Australian schools have been encouraged to keep diaries on what
happens at home, & bring them to school for “class discussion’ The ideology
says that parents disciplining children & discouraging them from early
sexual expression is a denial of children’s ‘rights’. Disciplining children can
now be deemed ‘child abuse’. The treaty requires that the education of children
must include global education, multiculturalism, feminism, &
environmentalism, & requires the setting up of a national system of
day-care. That gets the children out of the hands of mothers & into the
hands of social scientists as early as possible, so their social conditioning
as global citizens can begin.
Ref;
One Nation Policy Direction/Child support Scheme, papers.
Submissions by William D Craig, Dr,
Juris., B.Sci., Ll.B.
“22 Steps to Global Tyranny” by Graham
Strachan.
PRIDE OF BEING PRIDE OF PLACE
Australia's Aboriginals
should have equal rights, equality of land title, health, social & legal
services, with benefits based solely on individual needs.
Training facilities will be
established specifically for self-management & community living programs in
all States & Territories.
Federal & State
constitutional laws will prevail at all times, traditional aboriginal law will
only be acknowledged within the tribal situation & to the extent that there
is no human violation.
One Nation will not support a
claim for compensation associated with what is claimed as the aboriginal stolen
generation.
One Nation will not support a
claim for an aboriginal treaty.
Mabo & Wik court rulings
will be challenged as unconstitutional, where they support special rights for
aboriginals that are not available to all Australians. (This is apartheid,
which is abhorrent & is not equality.)
Aboriginals will have equal
rights that link with equal responsibility. Aboriginals will have the right to
borrow against & trade in freehold title lands. Excluding mineral rights,
which would remain the property of the Crown.
Definition of Australian
Aboriginal: Those primitive inhabitants of Australia, living under their own
tribal & cultural conditions, without any outside or commonwealth financial
support.
Torres Strait Islander
community of Australia do not wish & should not be classified as
Aborigines, they are of different ancestry & culture, and most have
assimilated into the Australian way of life & therefore require equality.
Few Australians have any
concept of Stone Age culture & Stone Age man. Even the most basic tools of civilisation
were absent. The aboriginal language had no verbs & no sentences. It
consisted of phrases & gestures. The Tasmanian aboriginals never used fire,
had no dwellings & the tribe lay in a heap on the ground in the winter to
keep warm. Some tribes ate human flesh, often breaking the legs of their
victims to keep them fresh until needed for they had no refrigeration or food
preservation methods.
There is no question that the
aboriginal in his native state had, of course, considerable virtues. The fact
that he survived at all in a hostile environment testifies to this. But any
attempt to point to contemporary aboriginals & say, "They were treated badly" is
nonsense.
They are not now the same
people; the following extract from "Encarta Encyclopaedia" will
provide further unbiased information on them.
Considerable uncertainty
exists about the racial origins of the Australian aborigines, & because no
proven connection can be traced with any other living race, ethnologists
usually class them as a separate race called Australoid. Among the physical
characteristics of the Australoids are small, long skulls; low, receding
foreheads, heavy brow ridges; & skin pigmentation that varies from reddish
brown to dark brown. Some ethnologists view the Australoids as representing an
archaic Caucasoid type, probably migrants from the Asian mainland in
prehistoric times, with Dravidian & Melanesian affinities. Other
ethnologists identify the Australoids as a surviving remnant of Neanderthals.
Linguistically, the Australoids
are related to no other people. Certain resemblances between the languages of
the native Tasmanians, a now extinct Negroid people, & those of the tribes
of south-eastern Australia have been noted, & a limited number of the
Australoid & Melanesian tongues reveal connections, but available evidence
is insufficient to demonstrate a relationship in either case.
Aborigines were mostly
nomadic; movement was usually dictated by availability of food & other
requirements. Many still live on reservations; others were employed on cattle
stations, whilst others have assimilated.
The federal & state
governments & the churches cooperate in education & training programs
designed to assist detribalised aborigines to become assimilated into the
community. In their native condition, however, the Australoids are essentially
nomadic hunters & fishers, & their knowledge & practice of
agriculture is rudimentary. Their only domesticated animal is a dog. As a rule
their homes are little more than crude shelters against the elements. Many of
the Australoids never wear clothing. The bow & arrow are unknown to them,
but they are remarkably proficient in the use of the boomerang, the waddy,
& the throwing stick. They are also skilled in the construction of stone
tools & in weaving bags & baskets. Aborigines are noted for their rock
paintings.
Australoid social structure
is based on the tribe, each with its own language & a complicated
intertribal system of exogamic clans.
As in many exogamic systems, marriages between the members of the
various clans are governed by highly complex customs designed to prevent
inbreeding & eliminate sexual rivalries. The male youths of the clans are
invested with maturity by means of elaborate initiation rituals, which include
circumcision, subincision ordeals by torture, & such festivals as the
corroboree. Initiation ceremonies also are held for young females.
It has been estimated that at
the time of settlement in 1788 the aboriginal population was between 150,000
& 300,000. This declined over the years to about 160,000 (including
aboriginal & Torres strait islanders). However it has increased in recent
times due many trying to cash in on the benefits made available due to the
exploitation of aboriginals by some political parties. Many billions of dollars
are wasted each year, so much in fact that it takes a mired of departments to
administer it, & a whole industry has sprung up to spend it.
Aborigines account for about
1% of the population & have over 50% of the land.
The last Tasmanian Aboriginal
died in 1876, however in a Four Corners program of 26/8/02, hundreds of dubious
people claiming aboriginal ancestry are cashing in on the benefits.
ABORIGINAL (Native) TITLE
It is imperative the people
of Australia understand, that this came about when a High Court stacked with
socialist judges in a flawed & divisive decision overruled parliament &
the Commonwealth of Australia by granting title of crown land to aborigines who
have no common law entitlement to it. Recognition of aboriginal prior ownership
of Australia, has no valid proof, it hands over 50% of the land to a minority
of 1% of the population, & is discriminative to other indigenous
Australians.
This is a typical example of
coalition governments using UN treaties to overrule the sovereign rights of the
Australian people. One Nation will extinguish this discriminative judgement.
"Land rights" to
the Aborigine never meant ownership. To them it was inconceivable that any
person could own land, put a fence around it & keep others out. To them
land was free to be walked over, as free as the air we breathe.
DEFINITIONS: INDIGENOUS
Equality for all native-born
Australians; Prior to the establishment of the aboriginal industry, "indigenous" came from Latin,
indigena, literally ‘born in’ one who
was born in this country, i.e. a native of Australia 1. ‘Being the
place or environment in which one was born’ this included the multitude of
Anglo-Saxons whose ancestry can be traced as far back as the First Fleet. But
in these politically-correct days the use of the term "indigenous"
has been misappropriated by aboriginal spokesmen to refer only to those who
class themselves as aboriginal-whether they are tribal or mixed race. This is
deeply resented by a great many Australians who are being made to feel like
outcasts in their own country.
The UN definition is
completely unacceptable as it alienates most Australians: eg: "Indigenous
communities, people & nations are those which, having a historical
continuity with pre-invasion & pre-colonial societies... consider
themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those
territories... They form at present non-dominant sectors of society & are
determined to preserve, develop & transmit to future generations their
ancestral territories, & their ethnic identity, as the basis of their
continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own culture patterns,
social institutions & legal system.
ABORIGINAL
Correct defining Australian
Aboriginals; eg. Macquarie dictionary; "The primitive inhabitants of a
country". It is generally understood that a person can claim aboriginality
if he or she is identified as an aborigine & is accepted as such, with no
requirement for a minimum level of aboriginal blood. This is not acceptable as
it encourages many freeloaders, DNA testing can now establish the truth.
We suggest the following
definition: An Aboriginal Australian is one with a positive DNA, originating
from the Aboriginal race of Australia.
Ref:
"Encarta", Dr. John Dique, Macquarie Dictionary. "Queensland 1824-1900"
"Tasmania 1803-1900" by George Finkel, researcher & writer of
unbiased Australian history books for school children.
.
When is the truth not the truth?
Fabrication of the truth goes
further & is now taught in schools, that the Tasmanian Aborigines were
exterminated by a policy of genocide. Documentary evidence shoes that only 118
Aborigine deaths at the hands of Australians & 187 Australians killed by
Aborigines. Blatant distortion of the truth, & certainly not genocide.
Intellectually dishonest,
politically correct black armbanders plague our university history departments
like termites in an old wooden house. Keith Windschuttle's interesting book
"The Fabrication of Aboriginal History" exposes the lies. (www.sydneyline.com)
ABORIGINAL TREATY
DEMANDS
1. Recognition of Aboriginal ownership of Australia.
2. The establishment of a separate Aboriginal nation of states.
3. The immediate restoration of all inalienable crown lands, state
& national parks, Aboriginal reserves & travelling stock routes of
Australia.
4. Negotiation of Aboriginal state boundaries
5. Recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty of all aboriginal lands
complete with inalienable title in
perpetuity.
6. Agree to the requirement that 40% of the total land mass of each
Australian state be transferred to permanent Aboriginal title.
7. Australians to pay the Aboriginal nation compensation for the
balance of 60% of Australian land not available to Aborigines to compensate for
the social physical & psychological ravages that have been made upon
Aboriginal people. Compensation rates to equal not less than 7% of GDP for the
first 10 years, 5% for the following 10 years & 2.5% of GDP in perpetuity.
8. The establishment of a Treaty between Aborigines & Australians.
9. Aborigines to retain sovereignty over all land & islands
presently known as Australia.
10. Aborigines to be given freedom to manage their own internal
& external affairs as a separate nation of people.
11. Aborigines to be given freedom to make Treaties regarding land
or sea corridors, as would any other independent nation.
12. The Aboriginal state to become a self-governing state involving
separate economic, social & cultural development combining traditional
religions & practice.
13. The Aboriginal nation to operate an independent legal system
subject only to international law.
14. All State Governments will be required to return appropriate
land unencumbered to the Aboriginal state.
15. Aboriginal states will impose entry restrictions in classified
areas or those areas adjacent to nominated Aboriginal sacred sites.
16. The Aboriginal nation will require the release of all Aboriginal
people prisons & institutions plus return the return to the Aboriginal
state of all Aboriginal human remains residing in museums plus all Aboriginal
artefacts.
17. Together with the total compensation package, the Australian
Government will be required to pay a sum direct to the new Aboriginal nation
equal to $1 billion within four weeks of the establishment of a treaty.
18. The Aboriginal nation will require existing State & Federal
Governments to provide permanently all social, political, educational &
legal benefits currently enjoyed by the Aboriginal people.
19. The Aboriginal Bureau of Aboriginal State Affairs will be
established to take over the existing Department of Aboriginal Affairs &
Aboriginal Development Corporation structures.
20. All towns & cities in the 60% of the land mass ceded by
Aborigines to the Federal & State Governments shall, at municipal expense,
provide & maintain for Aboriginal use special parklands of not less than 20
acres in area with appropriate sea & river frontages. These parklands will
be available for general public use at other times.
21. In urban areas where crown land is not available, suitable land
is to be returned to Aborigines on compensation & needs basis. The
Aboriginal families will occupy this land rate free.
22. Certain urban sections will become new Aboriginal domains
involving their own Aboriginal administration funding & political control.
23. All existing Aboriginal housing Australia-wide shall be
transferred complete with deed title by the Australian government to the new
Aboriginal state as an integral part of the compensation package.
24. 3% of the revenue derived from all mineral & natural
resources will be paid to the new Aboriginal nation.
25. Toll gates will be established & erected on all national
freeways & highways interconnecting cities & states. One-third of 1% of
the total annual toll collected will be payable to the new Aboriginal nation.
Toll rates for consideration will equal $2 per car, $3 per vehicle with towing
capacity, & 50 cents per motorbike. These tolls are subject to variation in
consumer price index.
26. It now appears that all these claims are invalid, along with
Mabo & Aboriginal land rights, as there is now positive proof that the
Parathions were here long before the Aborigines.
8/12/01.
Mr Beazley, Labor stated that he supports this treaty.
Statistics: Australian
taxpayer have given Aborigines $50 billion in the last 30 years. Aborigines own
or control at least 15% of the total land area of Australia & 50% of the
Northern Territory. They have claims over almost 80% of Australia.
“Red over Black” By Geoff McDonald, explains how aboriginals are
manipulated by communist fabian Marxists & are given land under an
“apartheid” system, designed to eliminate property rights, mining & industrial
development; & then blame Australians because there are not enough jobs for
the aboriginals.
Remember: In 1966 the
Australian people voted in a referendum for Aborigines to have full rights as
citizens of Australia. That’s One Nations Policy.
Ref:
‘Red Over Black’ by Geoff McDonald. ‘Struggle for Power’ by John Grover. ‘The
Fabrication of Aboriginal History’ by Keith Windschuttle.
‘Daisy
Bates’ By Elizabeth Salter.
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FEDERAL
POLICY #09 FINANCE & TAXATION
ONE
NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#09TAXATION & FINANCE
One Nation proposes a
finance, bank & tax review, replacing the GST with a complete reform of the
tax system, it is the only way to resolve the inequities, complexities,
disincentives & punishing nature of this tax system, that imposes too much
burden on the shoulders of low & middle income earners & seniors,
whilst large multinational companies are exempt from paying tax in Australia.
It benefits fully imported products, at the expense of Australian jobs.
ONE NATION will replace it with
the 21st Century Electronic Debit Tax, that will remove all the inequities,
supply sufficient revenue direct to treasury, & eliminate taxation as a
political issue. Banking & currency will return to government control,
value of the dollar will be controlled by the wealth of our resources & not
foreign speculation, restrictions on other Australian financial institutions
will be removed, especially credit unions, A National Superannuation fund will
be set up, to invest in national development, as an alternative to private
funds.
POLICY
#09: TAXATION & FINANCE
THE
21ST CENTURY ELECTRONIC DEBIT-TAX
To understand the DEBIT-TAX
entails a reversal of the normal concept of imposing a tax. As an accepted
practice, taxes have been imposed on ownership, duties, goods & services,
& in later years, on income. Now with the modern computer, it is possible
to impose a tax on an intent to use an amount of money withdrawn from a bank
account, rather than on the ability to pay, as has been practiced from the beginning
of time.
Unlike all other taxation
systems the Debit-Tax does not require you or any business or organization to
give an account of transactions to the Government. At the moment of withdrawal,
the Treasury department identifies the debit column in a bank account number,
& automatically collects by EFT an added minuscule tax of EG; (1 cent, per
dollar or $1 per $100), from the account, & instantaneously deposits it
into the National Treasury.
The Treasury Department is
the only tax collector operating through a chain of computers linked to all
banks & financial institutions & programmed as part of the monetary
system. With the chip, the computer & E-money, it is possible to completely
change the present method of taxation.
The 21ST CENTURY ELECTRONIC DEBIT TAX system is the most efficient tax
system ever devised by man to fund the National Treasury of any developed
nation.
Tax collecting now becomes
the function of a programmed computer linked to the banking system under the control
of the Treasury Department. Individuals, businesses, & corporations will no
longer be required to be self tax collectors as they are today, thus
eliminating potential sources of injustice & corruption.
Most assuring to the ordinary
citizen is the knowledge that he will no longer be faced with the possibility
of losing his present possessions because he is unable to pay his Income Tax.
Neither will he be daunted or even terrorized by the thought of fines or
imprisonment because of a delinquent tax.
It will allow for the
introduction of such things as free health care & a secure liveable pension
for seniors without means test. Also the introduction of a Natural Disaster
Scheme plus other incentives.
The banking industry is not
involved in the Debit-Tax system. Government payments that emanate from the
Federal Reserve Bank are not subject to the Debit-Tax.
The Debit-Tax is not usable
or collectable by a city, municipality, or state as these governments are not a
part of the monitory system.
THE 21ST CENTURY ELECTRONIC DEBIT TAX, provides the following advantages:
1. It replaces all existing Revenue Tax Laws for the support
of the Australian Government all other Federal taxes.
2. It will
supply the necessary revenue for full financial support of the Australian Government.
3. No more
filling of individual or corporate Income Tax Returns or Business Activity
Statements will be required.
4. There is
no tax on profits, Capital Gains, Assets or Savings. An incentive to save for
retirement.
5. There
will be no tax on Goods & Services.
6. There is only one collector, the National Treasury
& only one minuscule tax rate (One
Percent) for all. (NO FAVOURS), linked to all banks &
financial institutions.
7.
There is no accounting to the Government on the status of our wealth.
8. Personal
wealth will no longer be public knowledge.
9.
Tax delays, cheating, fraud & tax avoidance or evasion are impossible.
10. Through automation, tax delinquents & delays are not possible.
11. Not
having to pay Income Tax is a great incentive to investors.
12. An immediate increase in the value of the Australian dollar will
occur.
13. The
exclusive use of cash currency becomes counterproductive.
14. The DEBIT-TAX. is welcome, as it does not interfere with banking
operations.
15. There will be a continuous flow of Revenue 24 hours
a day, every day, collected by EFT, which is the ultimate in efficiency.
16. The DEBIT-TAX. is constitutional & an integral part
of our modern monetary tax system, never possible before the computer.
17. It will allow for the introduction of such things as free health
& education for all.
18. Also the introduction of a National Natural Disaster Scheme plus
other incentives.
19. Unemployment will be eliminated. With no taxation barriers, business
can employ more people.
20. The Taxation Office is abolished, saving pa, $1,635,536,000.00
21. Will
also extinguish our Foreign Debt.
(For further details contact www.debittaxglobal.org)
GUIDE
TO FORMULATING AUSTRALIAN REVENUE
On the basis to bank payments
supplied by the Australian Reserve Bank, the Tax Rate is determined as follows:
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The
revenue required per year Divided by Bank payments/withdrawals In Australia
$70,000 billion dollars are withdrawn annually from account numbers through the
banking industry.
$70,000
billion withdrawals @ 1 cent Tax Rate produces $700 billion in Revenue per
year.
Totals Tax Collected
2002-2003 $206.2 billion + GST $31.3 billion.
Total $237.5 billion. DEBIT-Tax provides an additional $462.5
billion in revenue.
Questions & answers on Debit-Tax;
Q: How will the Debit-tax affect share trading?
There might be some
resistance initially as all share trading is completely tax-free at present. (One only gets taxed on profits
generated from share trading). Under the e-tax system all profits are tax free
(as there will be no tax on income) & the 1% will be paid by the buyer, not
the seller, you buy shares today, pay 1% tax & when you sell the shares in
say, 10 years time, there is no tax on your profit or your capital gains.
Q: How will this system affect the
thousands of public servants currently employed by the present tax system?
This
will be the golden opportunity for our public workers to target the money
launderers, the black market economy & other illegal transactions, which
are currently sucking so much out of our economy. Also, the new system will be
creating so much employment that those
who wish to leave the public service will be able to do so to follow
their own private ventures.
Q: How will Superannuation work?
Superannuation will no longer
have to be paid by employers. Great news for small business. As the employees
are not being taxed on their income (they only get taxed 1% on their
withdrawals) the current 9% Superannuation levy will come off their gross
earnings & go into a Government Fund which will be managed by the Treasury
or a Ministry of Finance to ensure that the returns from each individual are
the same or even better than the Multinational Superannuation funds currently
managing these funds. This money shall be invested in local industry, thus
providing growth in all sectors including that of employment. Employees will
still have the option to further invest in other private superannuation funds
of their choice to increase retirement savings. This system will create more
jobs as well as guaranteeing the future of the Australian workers.
In
brief, an employee who earns $1000 a week will invest 8% ($80) into the Government
Superfund & take home $920, if he or she spends the full amount of the
balance it will only cost them a further 1% ($9.20) thus their NET PAY will be
$910.80 instead of $670 which they are currently taking home. (You don't have
to have a PhD in Economics to realize what this extra net income will do to the
economy of any country)
FINANCE
One
Nation is committed to reform of the financial system, we propose reinstating
Australia's "Peoples Bank" eg: Commonwealth Bank founded by King
O'Malley & operated from 1912-1923. It exercised a powerful check on
interest rates during the inflationary WW1 period, & handled loan
allocations at a much lower rate than private banks, with half the profits
being placed to the credit of the National Debt Sinking Fund. It was so
successful that political pressure was bought about to eventually privatise it.
According
to the "Chrisby Papers" it would be constitutionally OK to set up a
state peoples bank eg: "Bank of Queensland" or even the "Bank of
Australia". We also propose to free restrictions on credit unions to allow
them to compete with foreign banks.
One Nation is ashamed of our
Government Ministers who travel around the world with begging bowls, cringing
at the feet of foreign countries & multinational investors, in an attempt
to borrow money to pay for our imports, foreign aid & fund their economic
mis-management of our economy. One Nation believes that they are abrogating
their elected responsibility to the Australian people.
One Nation will correct the
situation, starting with taxation reform, financial reform, retention of our
public assets, developing our vast resources of minerals & energy, &
processing them here, re-regulation to protect our rural industries &
reduce fuel prices & in so doing create wealth, jobs & prosperity for
all Australians & not just a few wealthy multinationals.
Ref. Globalisation: Demise of the Australian Nation.
by Graham L Strachan. Debit Tax Council Australia Inc. (Chairman Reg
Bishop ph/fax.07-55246486.
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BACKGROUND
BRIEFING: TAXATION & FINANCE
Finance
& Taxation encompasses the following; Banking, Financial Regulation,
Investment, Public Finance, Superannuation, Taxation.
One
of the fundamental problems for Australian taxpayers is the inequity in who
contributes. This is particularly evident in the case of multinationals &
major corporations, most of who do not pay their fair share of tax. Due to the
government’s financial mismanagement, our weak dollar & deregulation, over
90% of our industry is now in foreign control with over $100 million a day
going overseas in interest & dividends.
To
expedite the foreign takeover, successive federal governments have taxed the
profits of Australian companies but not the foreign multinationals. According
to a 'double taxation agreement' dating back to 1953, if foreign companies pay
tax in their country of origin, the Taxation Commissioner has the discretion
not to tax their profits in Australia. Other countries do, in Japan they pay
52% tax on profit. Australian 'mums & dads' taxpayers currently pay 91% of
the country's tax, & foreign multinationals pay 2%.
To
find a fair & equitable tax system was a difficult task. The Howard
governments GST system has not been successful & has caused much hardship
to people on fixed incomes & small business. The GST was soundly endorsed
by the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Michael
Camdessus at the Australia Unlimited conference in May 1988, confirming that
the international bankers wanted it. Big business immediately announced a
multi-million dollar campaign to sell it, confirming that big business wanted
it, &
why not. The GST taxes the
people, not big business. On the other hand the alternative proposed by ONE
NATION, the Debit-Tax, would have taxed big business & foreign investors,
were simply ignored.
Australia's
"Peoples Bank" 1912-1923!
The role of Australia's
Commonwealth Bank, founded by Federal Labor politician, King O'Malley must be
learnt & understood once again. We must examine how the "Peoples
Bank" was started & why it changed. There was a great need at that
time in our history for a peoples bank, as O'Malley pointed out, to deal with
the crippling monopoly of debt financing by the private banking interests.
(much the same as we are now facing). Thus our Commonwealth Bank was started on
15th July 1912 after long & heated debate with those private banking groups
who saw their strangle hold on credit creation being threatened. It was the
steadfast support from Trades Hall in Melbourne during an emotional campaign
that tipped the balance to see the bill passed in Federal Parliament & a
"peoples bank" started.
This
new bank was utilised in financing Australia's World War 1 war effort to the
tune of $700m without an enduring debt. Sir Dennison Miller, the inaugural
Governor of the "Peoples Bank", when questioned after the war whether
he could provide similar finance in peace time for production purposes &
housing, indicated yes.
The
Commonwealth Bank was again put to the test to provide affordable finance for
Australians as the whole world went into post war recession in 1919. Australia
managed to avoid the worst financial consequences of this recession because of
Sir Dennison Miller & the Commonwealth Banks credit policies.
Farmers
were kept on their land & production was maintained. Low cost housing was
still provided for ordinary Australians. Over the nine years as Governor,
Dennison Miller had blazed the trail for the Commonwealth Bank on financial
markets, creating lower interest & giving reign to development &
employment. "He was prepared to fight all competitors-government &
private", so reported J.T.Lang, Premier of N.S.W. on Dennison Miller's
role in the interest of the nation. "The Story of the Commonwealth
Bank", D.J.Amos.
Lamentably,
after the death of Dennison Miller in late 1923 the rules of the peoples bank
were changed immediately, under the Bruce-Page government, from being a peoples
bank to simply becoming a bankers bank. Norman Makin, Labor MHR for Hindmarsh
in SA, at that time stated. "The government undoubtedly desires to place
the bank in subjection to private banking institutions & prevent it from
fulfilling the real purpose for which it was established.
Under
the Hawke Labor government, Keating privatised the banking system, allowing
foreign control of our banks & the floating of the A$, resulting in a 50
cent dollar, record foreign debt, & finally the introduction of GST to
repay the burgeoning interest.
Therefore
the need for a complete change of direction in tax & finance reform if we
are ever to regain our country.
The
total running costs of the A.T.O. in 1999-2000 cost us $1,635,536.000.00
examples of waste at the A.T.O. eg: Executive Salaries: The Tax Commissioner
salary $330,000.00. Two of his Assistant Commissioner's $270,000.00 &
$280,000.00, Another 152 staff were each paid over $100,000.00. Total amount
paid in executive renumeration In 1999-2000 was $22,709,567.00. Staff Numbers:
14,720 Consultancy Services: wasted $46,367,953.00 on them.
Media Advertising: Mitchell
Media was paid $65,727,190.00. Our proposed E-tax would save most of this.
Ref:
"Operation Bankwatch", by Jim Cronin. "The Chresby Papers"
THE ALTERNATIVE THAT MAKES THE GST LOOK LIKE DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
However the Government under John
Howard has dismissed the revolutionary new taxation system that could put an
end to all Federal taxes including income tax. With absolutely no investigation
into the Debit Tax what so ever, John Howard forged ahead with his GST that has
been rejected by taxpayers all over the world in countries such as England,
Canada and New Zealand. When you examine the Debit Tax system it is hard to
figure out why John Howard isn't falling over himself to, at least, investigate
it's possibilities because in the years that I have known about it I haven't
found anyone who can fault it. The benefits are so numerous! It has only one
drawback, not in its structure but that it is just unbelievable in its honest,
un-corruptible simplicity. So simple that ones first reaction is one of doubt
about the whole thing. In fact many
economists and tax accountants who have looked into the Debit Tax have nothing
but praise for it because it achieves fairness while eliminating time consuming
paper-work, tax evasion, tax collection and forces multinationals to pay their
fair share that is now being carried by
the average tax-paying worker. Compared to Howard's GST one wonders why people
are not up in arms to have it debated in parliament. When an average worker
must work five months for the Gov. before he earns less than one day’s pay
questions must be asked!! Australia has one of the most advanced banking
systems in the world and it is set up perfectly to administer the Debit Tax
which requires electronic debiting as withdrawals are made. The only people who
should be against this tax are the multinationals who presently pay very little
or no taxation, and can afford to administer their businesses to minimise tax
obligations,
something that the average worker
is not able to do. Our present taxation act runs to over eight thousand pages
and is so complicated that even taxation agents and accountants are confused
and frustrated by it. In comparison the Debit Tax can be simply explained in
half a dozen pages and requires no book- keeping at all. Accountants would be
occupied in more productive areas such as business efficiency and productivity,
while tax agents would be employed to monitor banking operations. With the
present self-assessment system the taxation department admits that they "cannot
cope, so they leave it to you to attend to your tax obligations." It is
estimated that small business spends at least one day a week doing unpaid work
for the government administrating books and collecting taxes.
Peter Alexander Gargan Aust. Debit
Tax Council.
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT A DEBIT TAX WILL WORK?
HOW IT BEGINS To initiate the introduction of the Debit Tax
Treasury inspectors, through an encrypted programme, would adjust all bank and
financial institution computers to hypothetically levy a 1% Debit Tax on all
withdrawals one year before the Debit Tax comes on line. During that trial
year, the Treasury under tight Gov. scrutiny will actually see and monitor the
continuous flow of potential revenue to enter the Treasury coffers. When the
trial, or dummy run, is completed at midnight on June 30th, real money (NOT
PROMISSORY NOTES) will start flowing into the Treasury and all other Federal
taxes will then cease. Banks and Financial institutions will not be required to
alter their operations. Australia would be relieved of its huge tax burden and
enter a highly prosperous tax-free economy, attracting investment capital as
the world's largest tax haven. It would be an offense under the Debit Tax
Amendment Bill to deliberately operate outside the national money flow and the
penalties would be severe.
Peter Alexander Gargan
Aust. Debit Tax Council.
This is as simple as it would be to implement this brilliant
tax, no great upheaval on a grand scale as with the GST, no years of study by
lawyers or accountants in order to be able to administer it, for un-believably
a computer, un-escapable, un-corruptible will be programmed to deduct this 1%
from all withdrawals 24 hours 7 day’s with NO exceptions. No tax returns to
fill in, no BAS, no declaring ones income to anyone!! Then on one 30th
June somewhere in the future only two things will happen, on the stroke of
midnight 1% will begin to flow into our treasury where in the very first year
it will bring in a total revenue surplus of around $300 Billion or when added
to the current approx. $189 Billion revenue collected now, a grand total of
approx. $520 Billion annually & if that’s not good enough, at that very
same spilt second every other forms of tax will vanish forever including their
GST!!
THERE WILL BE NO
MORE TAX ON SAVINGS!!!
After reading this & the full promotional material on
the Aust. Debit Tax Council Web site I am more convinced than ever before that
this revolutionary Tax program is completely workable & should be embraced
immediately by whatever party that is in Government as well as those who
aren’t. Most certainly in my view we of PHON must continue to embrace it fully
so as to reveal by whatever means we can the truth of it to the Aust. People
& its worth as the way out of our current crippling foreign debt. A debt
that will destroy us sooner rather than late! There is no time to waste &
if there is any wrinkles in this Tax System then we must iron them out so as to
present it to them squeaky clean & in the best light.
Kevin Mitchell
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT: #10 HEALTH
One Nation believes that all
Australians have a right to a high standard of health & hospital care, We support
the development of an equitable, efficient & high quality care system that
is accessible to all Australians regardless of means, with Medicare &
Public Hospitals funded by our proposed new tax systems, & reinstatement of
public hospital boards.
The private system is mostly
foreign owned, so public funding will be switched from corporate funds to
increasing consultation fees for GP's, ensuring the survival of their
practices.
POLICY: #10 HEALTH
States have the primary
responsibility for the provision of health services; however decisions by the
federal government, & allocation of tied grants, have a direct impact on
Health issues. As Australians age they will place increasing demands on the
health services. There will also be a greater demand for nursing home &
hostel accommodation. As technology is advancing with great rapidity new
investigative & corrective procedures are arriving on the medical scene,
litigation has also reached epidemic proportions & needs reform. The ever-increasing costs have to be funded,
& it is already apparent that this is beyond the individual, who can no
longer afford the cost of private insurance.
One Nation proposes to fund a
quality public health & hospital system through our Debit-tax, & social
security taxes that Australians have contributed too through their working
years. We propose to directly fund a system of district community hospitals run
by a hospital board, this will eliminate waste as about 75% of funds are wasted
in administration costs by the states. Community health care to be provided by
local GP's who can then refer patients to hospital care if & when needed,
& attend to their patient in these hospitals. This will take the pressure
off the hospital systems by people who abuse it, for minor & non-urgent
matters.
One Nation proposes that
standard health care will be free to all Australians who qualify; new
Australians must be working here for the required number of years or put up a
bond. Visitors to the country must be covered with travel insurance to cover
any health & hospital services for the period of their visit.
One Nation proposes Medicare
cards with photos & all relevant qualification data to be issued, so
preventing the system from being abused.
The private health system is
profit driven & generally foreign owned, & currently subsidised by $1.6
billion annually. One Nation proposes to redirect this money, to the public
system to increase the scheduled fee for consultations with GP's. Two decades
of government policy enacted through regulation, has allowed GP rebates to
increasingly decline against cost of living rises. The result is that doctors
have lost ownership & control of their practices. They have been swallowed
up by the giant health care corporations.
GPs are a very valuable
commodity for the vertically integrated Corporate Medical centres through their
ability to tap into Medicare funds via their referrals to pathology, X-ray
& specialists. The universal health care system in Australia was designed
to be a system where all Australians were able to obtain good quality health
care, if & when the need suddenly arose. What we are now witnessing is the
beginning of the full US health care scenario, in general practice, specialist
services & hospital ownership. Governments are selling off our hospitals to
large corporations. Greed has gobbled up bedside manner & real care to line
the pockets of overseas investors. One Nation believes this abuse should cease.
One Nation believes gap
coverage between standard public care & additional care, should be
available. Insurance companies will be encouraged to provide coverage based on
amounts rather than services, this will reduce current abuses & keep prices
down.
One Nation believes no one is
perfect even doctors & at times things do go wrong, to discourage frivolous
legal claims, complaints about any alleged incompetence or malpractice will be
handled by the hospital boards, with compensation based on workers compensation
rates & any major ones on a base of life time care. Dissatisfied patients in
private hospitals will still have the legal option.
One Nation believes
Australian seniors throughout their working life have contributed through
social security taxes to health care, & have a right to worry free adequate
health care during their retirement years. (Please refer to One Nation Seniors
policy for details).
One Nation believes in
re-establishment of the apprentice training of registered Nurses in teaching
hospitals
One Nation believes in
retention & encouragement of General Practise, with adequate fees to cover
costs to be provided from the federal health system.
One Nation would stop costly
abuse of our public hospital systems, bi immigration & multiculturism
One Nation would take steps
to ensure quality health & medical care is available to rural communities.
One Nation believes in the
restoration of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, to enable us to retain an
alternative to the market exploitation of multinational drug companies. This
would provide us with an indication of the real cost of drug production.
One
Nation opposes private IVF clinics & the wealthy doctors who exploit
unmarried women, resulting in mental & physical damage to mother &
child leaving the community & taxpayer to pick up the bill. Many end up so
depressed & desperate they see suicide as the only solution.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING #10
HEALTH
One
Nation believes high quality health care is a universal right, which is
inherent in the notion of the ‘common good’, the purpose for which our
nation-states were founded. In the words of William Guthrie Spence
Australia’s greatest trade union organiser:
“
The welfare of the people must be raised to the first place-must be the
uppermost & foremost consideration. How best to secure the good of all
without injury to any should be the aim-not commercial supremacy, not cheap
production regardless of the human misery following, but rather the broadest
justice, the widest extension of human happiness, & the attainment of the
highest intellectual & moral standard of civilised nations should be our
aim.”
One
of the first acts of a Federal Labor government around 1910 was the
introduction of the invalid pension scheme, coupled with the old age pension
program. At the same time the NSW Minister for Health, Fred Flowers said “Any
ideas that the hospitals are to be regarded as charitable institutions is
altogether erroneous. Hospitals are a necessity of civilisation & the
government should see to their upkeep & control. Hospitals should be as
free as the Art gallery & Public Library.
Prime
Minister John Curtin was committed to a national health service; he called
& won a referendum in order to obtain the necessary powers. Although
Curtin’s referendum was successful, progress was slow. In 1945, the Chifley
Government passed the Commonwealth Hospital Benefits Act & began funding
the states for each patient occupying a bed in a public or private hospital. In
1948 a comprehensive National Health Act was introduced. The legislation
envisaged the possible nationalisation of hospitals, along with government
provision of laboratories, health centres & clinics, as well as a Medical
benefits Scheme under which the Government would pay direct to doctors one half
of the patients’ medical fees subject to fee limitation by participating
doctors. The Chifley government fell before the bill was past.
In
1944 the Queensland state government took complete control over the hospitals,
the public health & mental health, by funding free universal state health
care from gambling (casket lotteries).
It
took the coalition nearly 23 years to progress further with the Minister for
Health Sir Earle Page introducing a free school milk scheme, as well as a
Pensioner Medical Service which gave aged, invalid, widows & service
pensions & their dependents free medical treatment by a general
practitioner. They also passed the Aged Persons’ Homes Act in 1954 to expand
aged care.
Within
less than a decade there were 2.3 nursing home beds per 1000 population, &
by 1971 there were 3.7 per 1000, giving Australia the greatest number of
nursing home beds per head of population in the world.
Gough
Whitlam (1972-1975) destroyed the ideals of his predecessors with his version
of Medibank.
Medibank
was anathema to free traders. It eliminated the means test for hospital
treatment & provided standard ward accommodation for free; provided free
outpatient treatment; provided salaries for all doctors providing care to
public patients (ending the earlier honorary system, where doctors receive fees
from private patients, & donated their services to the public system);
& covered 85% of all medical bills by the government, with the 155 balance
insurable. Fees were collected either by bulk billing (the preferred option0,
or the patient paid the doctor & then collected 85% of the fee from the
Medibank offices.
Under
the next Fraser government, health policy was dictated by economic
considerations & greed & a desire to shift health expenditure back to
the private sector. Fraser’s Jamison Inquiry into ‘hospital efficiency’ helped
to introduce the use of ‘business methods’ in the health care industry. Under
economic rationalists Hawke & Keating it soon got much worse.
Now
we have a government committed to globalisation & the complete
privatisation of all services, leaving us with a health system in shambles as
they force on us the American system, that means quality health & medical
care is only available to those who can afford to pay.
In
Costello’s first budget he slashed health care by &3.4 billion. He got the
ball rolling on expanding private health insurance by arranging a ‘rebate’ for
his friends in the industry of $1.7 billion, in his second budget slashed
almost another $1billion. At the 1996 Premiers conference, he forced the states
to take a $1.5 billion overall funding cut, & $650 million of health money
was spent on the gun by back to disarm Australians. In Queensland the Beattie
government transferred $700 million of hospital funding from gambling to
consolidated revenue. In their obsessive drive to offload the responsibility of
health care to the private sector. The Howard government went all out to force
people into lifetime private health insurance cover, culminating in the 1999
introduction of a 30% rebate on premiums for all members.
The
$1.6 billion a year going to the private health insurance industry is equal to
15% of the total spent by federal & state governments on our public
hospital & health care systems annually while profits of private health
insurance funds rose 172% to a record $343 million for 2000 & $800 million
for 2001.
In
a collapsing system, even private health insurance is no guarantee of actually
receiving prompt treatment especially now Tony Abbot is in control, however his
slush funds have many contributors.
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#11 IMMIGRATION & CUSTOMS
One Nation believes in zero
net immigration, (subject to review depending on economic conditions) &
that coming to Australia is a privilege that must not be undervalued. We reserve
the right of discretion to ensure these privileges are maintained, so
protecting our economy, social cohesion & cultural heritage.
POLICY #11: CUSTOMS &
IMMIGRATION
One Nation notes that
immigration throughout the last century has been of great benefit to Australia.
However it must be recognised that inappropriately high levels of immigration
can be detrimental to employment, to national infrastructure, services &
environment.
Illegal unauthorised arrivals
by sea & air, has increased 354%. The situation is virtually out of
control. Australian's are demanding action, these invaders should not be
allowed to land on Australian soil, boats without documentation, containing
illegal cargo should be turned around before they enter our waters, any detention
should not be on the Australian mainland. Processing will be immediate, with no
legal appeals. (Certainly not at taxpayer’s expense)
Our immigration program is in
urgent need of overhaul; an immediate hold on immigration is necessary, until
the economy has recovered. Then the balance needs to be bought back to the 1960
percentages to protect our culture & heritage, & promote, assimilation,
nationalism, loyalty & pride in being Australian. (The real cost of
immigration adds at least $15 billion Pa. to our foreign debt)
One Nation will
re-Australian-ise the department by returning to its correct name
"Immigration Department" we will dismantle the multiculturism part,
& restore democratic choice.
To ensure it reflects the
will & aspirations of Australians.
Australian
"citizenship" is a valued privilege, to qualify it will be necessary
to study the Australian Constitution & laws & after five years pass a
test in English & swear allegiance to the crown & flag. This will
eliminate the expense of printing material in foreign languages, & ensure
assimilation & employment of those genuine in becoming a good citizen in
their adopted country.
One Nation will review the
criteria for business migration, increasing the minimum capital requirement;
participants not complying with agreed terms to be placed on notice of
repatriation.
Foreign student migration is
abused to the extent that it precludes Australians from entry to educational
institutions. One Nation believes that due to most countries now having good education
facilities it is no longer necessary for them to come here to study.
The carrier's (airlines &
shipping) who convey people to the country without documentation will be
responsible for them. This includes immediate return to port of embarkation,
& any other costs incurred.
One Nation will withdraw from
UN treaties on migration & refugees, that conflict with our sovereign
rights & laws, & amend laws if required.
DISCRETION
This means freedom of judgement or choice, to choose wisely, with
the current terrorist problems this is essential. The facts are that all
involved in terrorist activities to date have been Muslims between the age of
17 & 40. Muslims see terrorism as a black & white issue. A jihad
between Muslims & infidels. Our
policy in this regard has nothing to do with race; it is about protecting our
country from a real threat.
A minimum of five years
waiting period on social security benefits for newly arrived migrants
Migrants passing a complete
& thorough health check before acceptance being granted. Including AIDS,
Hepatitis TB. (Due to the AIDS epidemic in Africa, it would be to risky to
allow black immigration from there.
Family reunion other than for
immediate family, & that Australian relatives provide unconditional
guarantees that they will provide full financial support, so that the family
members do not disadvantage, indigenous Australians who have worked hard all
their lives to provide hospital & social services.
The character of people
wishing to migrate to Australia to be investigated. No dual citizenship,
Australian citizenship to be mandatory after 5 years residency.
One
Nation proposes that Immigration will become the Department of Customs &
Immigration; Responsible for protection of our coastline from illegal invaders,
goods (Drugs) & terrorists, control & monitoring of entry & leaving
of people & goods, issue of passports, visas & other documentation
BRIEFING: IMMIGRATION
Australia does not presently
write its own immigration policy in spite of any claims to the contoury. It
yielded that right when it signed an international agreement, The International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of the
United Nations on October 13,1966. This was ratified on September 13, 1975,
without a referendum & against the will of the people as required under the
constitution. Coalition governments, have used this to deliberately introduce
into Australia unassimilable aliens, while at the same time people from where our
founding ancestors originated, are deliberately prevented from entering.
Deliberate over taxation has
caused a drop in our birth rate, & so the government has an Immigration
policy of multiracialism "Populate & Perish", to confuse the
public they call it multiculturism.
IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT
Immigration Dept covers the
following: Citizenship, Grants, Illegal Migration, Migrant Services, Migrating
to Australia, Passports & Visas, Visiting Australia.
Facts from Departments
2000-2001 Annual Report:
Average staffing was 4000,
$18,949,000 was written off for detention of illegals
Total cost for immigration
activities $666,607,000. Multicultural activities $76,620,000.
Number of registered
migration agents as of 30/6/2001, 2429.
Asylum Seeker's Assistance Scheme
cost $11,163,000.
Of 58,674 over stayers only
9054 removals so far.
1,646 applications &
appeals to the courts.
1,877 refused entry at
airports, 4141 illegal boat arrivals.
$350,000 paid to Federation
of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia for operating expenses $407,000 for
interpreters.
$98.9 million paid to
contractors under the Adult Migrant English Program.
RACISM
This is a new term, which
gained currency soon after WW11. It has been defined differently in various
dictionaries, in wording & meanings.
Racism is a term used as a
weapon of offence against white people who are proud of the achievements of
their race & history, & who wish to live among people of their own
kind.
Racism is used as a weapon
against the freedom of speech. Article 19 Declaration of Human Rights states:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion & expression; this right
includes the right to hold opinions without interference & to seek, receive
& impart information & ideas through any media & regardless of
frontiers."
This is now the outcry when
the people of Australia try to debate their future & protect the country
from the failed evils of multiculturism. In an attempt to gag debate, the
coalition has introduced "Anti-Discrimination Legislation," the Beattie
Government announced an apartheid policy for Queensland, to celebrate Australia
day 2003.
IMIGRATION DETENTION AMENDMENT BILL 2003
The speech by Senator Len
Harris clearly points out some of the loopholes that allow illegals (criminals,
drug dealers & terrorists) to use our legal system at the expense of the
crown to remain in the country. Labor typically has put forward a plan for a
special appeal committee that would add further delays & costs.
The loophole in sect. 1963 of
the immigration act, allows illegals to appeal & to be released into the
community for up to 540 days on an interlockery order.
These people are now in
detention centres because they have chosen to be it’s their wilful decision.
The cost to the Australian
taxpayer is horrendous; the average time for a case in the Federal Court is 179
days, appeal to the Full Court 149 days, appeal to the High Court 189 days.
Total 550 days, at an average cost per illegal of $270,000. This is not
acceptable; the money would be far better invested in public health & other
areas.
Len Harris clearly pointed
out ONE NATIONS policies when speaking to this bill that will eliminate this
loophole.
WHITE AUSTRALIA
All conducted surveys clearly
show over 85% of Australians wish to retain the white Australia Policy which was
replaced with the evil multiculturism policy without their consent.
One Nation will ensure the
will of the people.
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT
#12 INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING, BUSINESS & TOURISM
One Nation opposes globalism
& will withdraw from international treaties that harm our manufacturing
industry. Our policy is import replacement; we will restructure tax, banking,
finance, training & reduce energy costs, to allow our industry to compete
on a true level playing field.
One Nation acknowledges small
business is a major employer, therefore policies affecting it have a direct
impact, we believe laws & regulations should be reduced & structured to
encourage new & existing business & ensure fair competition.
One Nation believes that
tourism is best served by Australians touring Australia as there is little gain
from international tourism, our tax & energy policies will encourage
business.
POLICY #12: MANUFACTURING, BUSINESS & TOURISM
One Nation is strongly
opposed to the "free trade" economic policies, which over the past
years have led to the gradual destruction of the Australian manufacturing
industry, with the resulting loss of hundreds of thousands of Australian jobs,
an increasing dependence on the import of foreign goods to satisfy basic local
demands, & a deteriorating trade balance, creating a massive & rapidly
growing foreign debt problem that is reflected in the declining value of our
dollar.
The demise of our
manufacturing industry has accentuated the serious unemployment problems. Once
we manufactured 90% of our requirements now we are unable to produce 10%, all
caused by misguided policies implemented by successive relic governments since
1973. The continuation of these "globalist" policies will drive
Australia to financial disaster, changing us from a wealthy & self
sufficient nation, to a "third world" nation, depending on the
International Monetary Fund &
loans to pay our debts, thereby losing our economic & political
freedoms.
One Nation believes we must
rebuild Australian Manufacturing by first & foremost changing our tax
system. Ridding ourselves of the iniquitous GST & introducing the 21st
Century Electronic Debit Tax. Secondly we must take control of our energy
resources to ensure we have the use of our abundant supplies at prices not
inflated with taxes & profiteering.
Finally we need to reform our financial system to ensure the availability of long-term low interest rate
loans to assist manufacturing.
One Nation believes low taxes
& energy costs, & cheap finance provides the opportunity for
manufacturing industry to prosper once more, & with it job opportunities,
export replacement, & reduction in our trade imbalance & debt.
One Nation believes that the
federal governments entering into various trade agreements, such as the General
Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) & the LIMA Agreement, which force
local Australian industries & farmers to compete with imports from cheaper
manufacturing & producing countries. Since Australia’s living standards,
wage rates & other production costs are comparatively high due to poor
economic management, unless Australians are prepared to take a cut in those
things or get rid of the government, this can only have one effect – to wipe
out Australian manufacturing & farming industry, that is precisely what
their policies have achieved Globalism. This loss of our manufacturing industry
has reduced us to third world economy, resulting in loss of jobs &
opportunities for our youth. Therefore One Nation is committed to reversing the
situation.
One Nation suggests that as
globalism & ensuing debt has reduced us to a third world country we should
develop strategic plans for manufacturing industry sectors in line with LIMA
aims, consulting business, unions, trade experts & the regions, that
identify future opportunities, & the best means of industry meeting those
opportunities. Some of the LIMA Agenda that now pertains directly to Australian
Industry. Quoted & abridged from the following declarations. 51) Every
attempt must be made to promote agro-based or agro-related industries that
besides arresting rural exodus & stimulating food production activities,
provide an incentive for the establishment of further natural resource-based
industry. 52) Devote particular attention to the development of basic
industries such as steel, chemical, petro-chemical & engineering, thereby
consolidating economical independence while at the same time assuring an
effective form of import-substitution & a greater share of world trade.
(53) Make possible the processing of natural resources & other raw materials in the country of origin &
the establishment of permanent structure for specialised, rapid large scale
& high-quality training of national labour at all levels. (58)(h)
Achievement of a higher degree of efficiency in import- substitution process
& the formulation of appropriate incentive measures to encourage the export
of manufactured & semi-manufactured products with the highest possible
local content & value added potential; (58) (I) development &
strengthening of public, financial & other institutions in order to protect
& stimulate industrial development, in particular, the basic rural, small,
medium-scale & labour intensive manufacturing industries'. end quote.
One Nation proposes training
program based on the needs of manufacturing industry, providing indentured
apprenticeships. To achieve this education expenditure needs to be changed,
with 70% to TAFE & 30% to Universities. This reflects statistics & the
needs of industry, providing skills & opportunities for further education.
For if we, as a nation, are going to grow & prosper in this new millennium,
we must educate our children to ensure that our way of life & freedom will
survive the test of time.
One Nation believes in ‘Fair
trade & not free trade’, with support to protect our vital manufacturing
industries equal to those imposed on us by other countries for similar
products. Except in the case of those countries where manufacturing industry
employs slave labour rates, in which case an equalisation levy will apply to
protect our labour rates.
Definition of Small Business:
Enterprises with less than 20 employees in all industries except manufacturers
where they have less than 100 employees, & agriculture where they have an
estimated value of agriculture operations of between $22,500 & $400,000.
One Nation believes that
tourism & travel is best served by a commitment to industry quality control
that is consumer driven & not industry driven.
Reduction or elimination of
taxes & charges that hinder the industry, especially crippling fuel prices.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: MANUFACTURING
The Australian Government due
to its commitment to globalism has practically destroyed manufacturing industry
in Australia. They do not even have a portfolio or a policy for it. Australia
cannot afford to continue importing at current levels. One Nation believes that
Australia must shift the emphasis, from being a raw commodity producer to
becoming a value-added manufacturing economy.
Instead of leaving all
economic issues to the world markets to determine, we will target imports in
each industry code & encourage Australian manufacturers to replace them. To
provide a level playing field, we will reduce energy prices, reform the tax
& finance system, & for countries that employ slave labour, we will
impose an adjustment to equable the differential.
Australia needs a vibrant,
growing manufacturing & service sector to provide jobs for the new century
& to maintain & improve living standards.
GLOBALISM
Globalism is the ideology of
"free trade." It aims to open up national economies so that
multinationals companies, using modern transportation & communications, can
freely shift their capital, technology & products around the world so as to
maximise their profits by:
Exploiting the cheapest labor
costs, shifting operations to Asia where wage rates are between 39 cents &
$1/hr;
Minimising their taxes (60%
of multinationals in Australia pay no company tax & 40% pay hardly any);
Merging with & taking
over competitors to reduce competition & increase market share;
Gaining larger markets in
Asia, Latin America, Russia; Avoiding legal restraints, especially
environmental & labor laws;
Shifting speculative capital around
the world financial markets exploit currency, interest rate, bond rate &
stock market changes.
Dr Frank Gelber, from his
book " Manufacturing Prosperity", Australia is not using its foreign
borrowings for capital investment, but for consumption. The decimation of the
manufacturing sector & increasing reliance on imports is the primary cause
of Australia's burgeoning net foreign debt, $294 billion as of September 2000.
Increasing, domestic
production of goods & services is insufficient, so we had resorted to
borrowing overseas to buy the imports we need to maintain our living standards.
In particular, Australia's $57.4 billion deficit on manufacturing trade shows
that our manufacturing sector is in decline & no longer produces enough to
satisfy demand for consumer & capital goods in Australia.
Primarily, our foreign debt
is the result of the destruction of manufacturing. We borrow from abroad to buy
from abroad what we no longer produce at home.
Investment in the latest
machine tools & technology, to
ensure our manufacturing industry remains competitive. Eg: Don Carlson,
president of AMT (The Association for Manufacturing Technology) says "If
policy makers understood the extent of which machine tools & advanced
manufacturing technologies contributed to the US economic expansion, they would
promote capital investment, development of advanced manufacturing technologies,
free & fair trade & improved education & skill training for
workers. Between 1959 & 1996 manufacturing productivity grew over 40% faster
than productivity in the overall nonfarm economy. Over the last five years, the
contribution amounted to US$1 trillion. (*)
The Queensland Magnesia
Project based at Parkhurst,
Rockhampton in Central Queensland is one of the world's largest magnesite, calcinated
magnesia & refractory magnesia operations. Due to handicaps imposed by
Liberal/labor governments eg: greenhouse, native title etc., this project is in
trouble. The annual capacity is 30,000 tonnes with a value of up to us$850 a
tonne. Magnesium is alloyed providing strong light casting, which is much in
demand in the auto industry. Providing our local industry is given access to
our vast energy resources at affordable prices. we have the opportunity to
become the world supplier of auto components.
SME 5/01. Manufacturing worldwide is efficient & capable
of producing excellent products that can be sold at a price billions of people
can afford. Manufacturing worldwide is becoming still more efficient as
automation strategies, improvements in machine tool technology, &
shop-floor management techniques, such as lean manufacturing are adopted. Why
then is the Howard government hell bent on destroying Australia's Manufacturing
Industry, when history shows us that only those countries with a healthy viable
manufacturing base are economically successful. Eg: USA, Japan, Germany, Swiss,
France, Italy, South Korea, & even China. All have been investing heavily
in new machine tools during 2000, whilst in Australia it has almost ceased. (*)
The KYOTO protocol,
globalisation & other UN policies of no use to Australia that will harm our manufacturing industry.
"Kyoto
Protocol is a Mistake" by William A Levinson, CMfgeE, CEI PE, SME
Senior Member.
There's an old saying: "
Be careful what you wish for you might get it". And California has.
Through short-sighted environmental policies that prevented construction of new
power plants, the state asked for, & in due time received, rolling
blackouts & factory shutdowns accompanied by the twin spectres of layoffs
& plant closings. "No Nukes" became a mantra, even though the US
has never had a fatal nuclear power plant accident. In San Jose, at the heart
of the semiconductor industry, an industry that consumes huge quantities of
electricity, voters rejected a new power facility because it offended their
aesthetic sensibilities.
Even the state’s recent
regimen of freezing in the dark, superseded by the vision of millions left
sweltering in the dark, has not convinced some people. A recent editorial in
the San Jose Mercury News favouring the Kyoto Protocol shows that many influent
Californians’ have yet to understand the connection between expensive
electricity & an affluent lifestyle, not to mention national prosperity
& military security.
Kyoto will do for the entire
country what California's policies have done for the state. It will drive up
energy prices by compelling electricity power plants to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions or pay hefty "carbon taxes" for burning fossil fuels.
If ratified, a treaty based
on the Kyoto Protocol will make US goods more expensive & discourage new
investment in domestic manufacturing.
It will move American
smokestacks, the jobs underneath them, & all their carbon dioxide to Third
World nations that have no environmental controls at all. In addition, Kyoto
does not require developing nations like China to curtail their gas emissions.
Keep in mind that energy
costs were among Henry Ford’s principal considerations in siting his factories,
& the high-paying jobs that went with them. Cheap electricity, not a
convenient supply of bauxite is the principal consideration in siting an
aluminium plant.
James K. Glassman, resident
fellow of the American Enterprise Institute (Washington, DC) believes that the
Kyoto Protocol would raise gasoline prices 50 US cents per gallon in this
country, & says the growth of gross domestic product in the US would be cut
by more than half as business move offshore. What parts of "halve GDP
growth" & "send jobs Offshore" do this agreement's supporters
not understand?
In addition to damaging the
economy, the Kyoto Protocol exemplifies, shortsighted, reflexive
environmentalism. Commercial forces already drive intelligent environmentalism
by encouraging companies to reduce waste & get more from each resource.
Making optimum use of resources was, in fact, one of the principal secrets of
Henry Ford's success.
A pertinent modern example is
the production of hydrogen from coal & steam. Fuel cells, which are not
subject to the efficiency limitations of thermal power cycles, can then convert
hydrogen to electricity with efficiencies that approach 80%. The process is
clean, & it uses less coal per kilowatt-hour than does a conventional
generating system.
Human safety is the
engineering profession's paramount consideration.
American environmental laws
(unlike Third World Laws) already cover pollutants that endanger human health;
carbon dioxide is not among them.
Engineers are also stewards
of the economic well-being & military security of the US. The two are related;
manufacturing is the backbone of military power. American productivity, the
"sleeping giant" of which the great Japanese naval officer Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto warned his government, won the Second World War. Ronald Regan
used the overwhelming economic power of the US to win the Cold War by
confronting the Soviet
Union with an arms race that
it could not endure.
It is there fore our duty as
engineering professionals to unite in public condemnation of the Kyoto Protocol
through all possible communication channels, & to encourage the Bush
administrations to continue to reject the restrictions imposed by Kyoto.
We must educate the public
about the relationship between cheap energy & manufacturing, & between
manufacturing & economic power. Our country's standard of living &
military security must not be sacrificed to trendy, feel-good political
correctness.
If we allow our future to be
determined by this misbegotten fraudulent document, forget about your present
line of work. You'll need to learn a new trade, one that will require you to
make frequent use of the question: Would you like fries with that?
Political parties involved
with foreign interests to the detriment of Australian manufacturing industry eg: The
Whitlam-Fraser-Hawke governments agreed to give the UN power over our produce
exports by signing the UNCTAD Agreement; a measure of control over the
repositioning of our manufacturing industry in other countries was given to the
UN by signing the iniquitous Lima Agreement; the Australian Labor Party policy
is committed to One World UN Government & the New International Economic
Order as launched by Fidel Castro. The
Fraser Government was similarly committed: The Hawke Labor Government surrended
slices of Australia to the "world heritage" controllers to stop the
building of dams needed in Tasmania.
Whitlam-Fraser-Hawke &
Howard have gone a long way to surrendering Australia to foreign World
Government eg: In 1976 (after McMahon) Australia's net foreign debt $3,133
million.
In 1996 (after Keating) $193.170.mil
In 1999 (middle of Costello)
$230,129m
By September 2000 $294,455. mil
It has now reached 46% of our
GDP; the rate accelerates as the ability to repay it diminishes due to the loss
of 90% of our manufacturing industry. Our indebtedness is reflected by the
value of the A$ which sank to a record low, this inturn increases our debt,
allowing foreign interest to purchase Australian companies for peanuts. We are
now forced to sell off our assets & raw material at whatever price we can
get for them. We allow foreign interest to control our vast energy resources,
to impoverish us, whilst they reap huge profits from our resources.
The Howard government sits
iderly by, while they destroy our manufacturing & rural industries, next on
the agenda is water.
Meanwhile we work our guts
out to pay the interest on our record levels of debt. Yet when the
liberal/labor politicians say, "Trust Me!” people did so because their
parents voted that way.
However times are changing,
alternatives are offering, there is now a party committed to the people &
not globalisation. "Its not possible to fool all the people all the
time". The tide is turning for Howard & his masters no wonder he is
looking worried.
The double tax agreement that allowed for 90% of Australian manufacturing
industry to become foreign owned, enabling those companies to pay little or no
taxes in this country.
Company returns for 1999-2000
show that Australia's top 1000 companies paid tax of $18.4 billion on gross
revenue of $937.1 billion. A tad under 2%
The fact that
manufacturing in general is leaving Australia. due to the coalitions policies & UN agreements, it's a simple
fact that it appears to be cheaper today to make most things outside of
Australia.
The problem with this perception
is that it's short sighted. We can only keep a great deal of manufacturing in
this country by getting much smarter about the way we manufacture.
Automation is the key to
reducing manufacturing costs & thus keeping manufacturing here, this helps
offset the low wages paid in Asian countries. Replacing labour with automation
wherever it's possible to do so reduces overall costs through labour savings,
more consistent production, & better quality. Reducing energy costs, tax
& over regulation also plays a major part.
People in Australia must
remember what wealth is & where it comes from. Wealth does not come from
cleaning one another's windows. Wealth consists primarily of things. If we
continue to import things we will, by definition, become less wealthy. At the
same time, the nations who do manufacture things will become wealthier &
control our economy.
The BIG Sell-Off: The relic parties have sold our oil, gas, ports,
coal, metal, gems, minerals, shipping, airports, air lines, railways, buses,
trams, ferries, trucking, electricity grids, telephone services, radio TV
facilities, newspaper chains, satellites, internet services, tourist resorts,
insurance, stock exchange, even the mint.
They sold our public
utilities such as water, sewerage, garbage, electricity distribution, our
defence industries, our Army, Navy & RAAF repair, maintenance, security,
cooking, provisioning & accommodation, our coastal patrols & even the
workers superannuation schemes.
All cooperatives are next
(This law came into effect 6/99 & is yet to be implemented) Even the rain
that falls in water catchment & private dams has been declared a COMMODITY
to be sold on the Futures Market.
LIST
of ASSET SALES $Million
Removals
Australia $10.4
National Transmission
Network (NTN) $650
Auscript
$1.1 Australian
Multimedia Enterprises Ltd
$29.3334
Australian River Co,
Ltd.
$20.697
Australian National Railways
Commission $95.4
Dept. of Administrative
Services (8 business units) $436.8
Federal Airports Corp.
$4.1 billion
Housing Loans Insurance
Corp $108
Telstra (1 & 2)
$30.7billion
Commonwealth Accommodation
& Catering Service $14.9
Defence Service House Corp Loan $1,515
AMDEL
$0.92
Australian Defence Force Home
Loan Franchise $42
Commonwealth Housing Loan
Assistance Schemes in ACT Australian
Airlines $400
25% of Qantas $665
Commonwealth Bank 2nd Public
Share Offer $1,700
Snowy Mountains Eng Corp. $1.5
CSL (Commonwealth Serum
Laboratories) $229
Moomba-Sydney Pipeline System $534
Commonwealth Uranium Stockpile $57
Aerospace Technologies of
Australia P/L $40
Qantas Public Share
Offer
$1,450
Commonwealth Bank 2nd Public
Share Offer $5,156
Commonwealth Funds Management
Ltd $62.5
Avalon Airport Geelong Ltd $1.5
Melbourne Airport $1.307billion
Brisbane Airport
$1.387billion
Perth Airport $643
DASFLEET $408
Wool Stock Australia
$?
Australian National Railways
Corp. freight & Maint $57.4
ANRC-interstate passenger business $16
ANRC- Tasman freight business $22
Australian Industry
Development Corp Ltd $155
Former Macleod Repatriation
Hospital site $1.75
Adelaide & Parafield Airport $363.5
Archerfield Airport
$3.1
Canberra Airport
$66.5
Coolangatta Airport
$103.6
Darwin, Alice Springs &
Tennant Creek Airports $1100.15
Hobart Airport $35.9
Jandakot Airport $6.7
Launceston Airport $17.2
Moorabbin Airport $8.2
Townsville & Mount Isa Airports $15.9
Australian Submarine Corp
Mascot Airport
Health Services Australia
National Rail Corp.
TOTAL SALES =$ $ per
income earning family in
Australia. Did you get your cheque?
NOTE Every sale means no more
revenue for the government. so YOU PAY MORE TAX. These sales do not reduce our
foreign debt only our capacity to repay the interest. The income from these
utilities goes offshore to the multinationals who bought them
Our decline will not stop
until every Australian takes a stand & forces the politicians to stop
selling out our country.
Fabrication of steel is a worthy activity Australians one did well & often.
Generations of school leavers leant boiler making, fitting, welding,
toolmaking, mechanical & production engineering, management, marketing, as
careers involving steel fabrication. Today many similar decent young people
learn the more appropriate skills of shoplifting, car theft &
break-&-enter.
We imported engines &
some components, used locally produced steel plate, rod & bar; to
manufacture lots of beaut machines & equipment.
We made marvellous machinery
for mining, manufacturing, farming, road- building, construction, shipping,
trucking & transportation. The products were high quality & production
cost were reasonable.
In the early &
mid-seventies the early rush of economic rationalists slithered from under
rocks in Canberra & bent politicians' ears. The pollies the had as little
knowledge of the real world multinational corporations & international
manufacturing as they display today.
Tariffs were reduced, export
incentives eliminated & from a climate of encouragement by Government to
manufacturing locally we moved to disincentives
Our federal politicians have
failed us miserably in ensuring the loss of whole once-viable industries using
steel.
THE AUSTRALIAN MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY
Machine tools are the key
element in manufacturing, & are considered essential for industrial
development, prosperity & defence of the country.
Australia barely presented a
market for machine tools until the advent of gold mining in the 1850's, when
production & repair of mining & agricultural equipment created the
need. The tyranny of distance bought about the growth of local engineering
shops, resulting in the manufacture of machinery & basic machine tools.
Over the years the industry ebbed & flowed subject to economic conditions,
boom years occurred in wartime, but it was not until WW11 that we became aware
of the importance of machine tools to the nations survival.
During WW11 we were forced to
manufacture our own machine tools, as we were cut off from overseas supplies.
However after the war the industry once more began to decline, due to large
build up of capacity & market forces. The post war manufacturing demand
& shortage of dollars, fuelled industrial development during the 50's,
60's, this in turn created a need for machine tools & the more progressive
of the local industry did well during this period. However due to growth
especially in the Automotive, electronics & whitegoods industry. demand
changed from the simple labour intensive machines to more automated &
productive ones. This market was catered for by some successful local
companies, who in turn generated a demand for more efficient, higher precision
& productive machine tools.
It was in the early 60's that
I started my career in the machine tool industry, tariffs were designed to
protect the local industry, restricted import of machines of higher technology,
this was overcome by a bylaw arrangement designed to protect the local
machines, but still allowing the duty free import of more advanced machines.
This worked reasonably well, except for concessions to so called less developed
countries which eventually flooded the local market, with simple cheap
machines, many of doubtful quality.
During the 60's our dollar
was still valuable & we could afford to import top quality European &
American machine tools. In later years when labor governments came to power
& sold out our sovereignty, with foreign treaties (LIMA) our manufacturing
industry began to decline, as fast as our dollar. This was the end of the local
machine tool industry, & the market for quality machines, as by then our
standard of living was in decline & we could only afford cheap Chinese
machines.
By the 1970's for industry to
remain competitive, they had to upgrade to high technology machines, including
the then new NC technology, which greatly increased machine flexibility,
reducing set up time, & allowed for economic low volume production. This
put Australian industry on a competitive base with those countries which
previously had the advantage of volume.
I personally was responsible
for the introduction of much of the technology, including the first CNC roll
turning lathe, which reduced roll-turning time from 40 to 8 hours. During the
mid 70's I took on the job of introducing high technology metal fabricating
& forming machines including CNC press brakes, fabricenters, & tube
benders etc. We also set up the first DNC production shop in the world; we
automated Australian industry to a point where it could compete with anyone in
the world. This lead to the local design & production of special machines
& automation equipment, some of which we also exported.
By the mid 1980's, government
policy began to take effect & industry was in decline with much moving
offshore. Today we it has declined to the point were what is left is 90%
foreign owned & we now only produce 10% of our needs, which has resulted in
a huge decline in our trade balance & blow out in debt as we continue to
borrow to cover the bill for the imports that we once produced here.
Due to market forces we may
never return, to having a real machine tool industry in Australia. But in the
national interest we must return to a policy of import replacement, to enable
us to have a manufacturing industry, with machines, & skills so we can
value add to our natural resources, & in so doing reduce our debt &
provide jobs & a defence capability.
Ref:
"Manufacturing key to economic health" By Martin fell. "A Manifesto for Australia" News
weekly Special Edition, 13/1/2001/
"letter by Jeffrey Hinde in the Australian" "Manufacturing History" by Ian Kennedy.
’22
Steps to Global Tyranny’ by Graham Strachan.
SMALL BUSINESS
Small Business is the major
employer in Australia & is the cornerstone of Australian communities &
the economy, particularly in rural & regional areas.
Governments have a responsibility
to encourage & protect small business while recognising the need for
competition & free enterprise. Small business will be given preference over
big business.
Australian business will be
favoured by government & through policy over multinational & foreign
owned business.
Small business employers
& employees have rights & responsibilities; neither the exploitation of
workers by employers nor the use of restrictive work practices favouring
employees are in the interests of either group.
Small businesses are an
integral part of the lives of their owners ATS- family involvement, the common
practice of using the family home to finance small business, & the
treatment of the business as a basis for planning retirement income are factors
which must be acknowledged when determining legislation & regulations
affecting small business.
Small business ventures carry
inherent risk - a level of risk not required of small business employees,
employees in general & shareholders of publicly listed companies.
The Debit tax, will replace
the GST, Fringe Benefits Tax, & Wholesale Sales Tax. It will also provide
sufficient revenue to remove the Capital Gains Tax. The Debit tax will
eliminate most of the enormous amount of paperwork imposed on small business,
as the current government uses them as unpaid tax collectors. It will allow
them to get on with the job of running their business.
As the Debit-tax only
operates on expenditure, & does not apply to savings it allows small
business to provide for their own expansion without having to depend on foreign
owned banks & financial institutions.
Tariffs or quotas on imports
will be re-introduced to enable Australian industry & business to compete
with foreign products, without having to reduce our wages or standard of living
to those countries that employ people on slave labour rates.
Sub-contractors &
suppliers of products in industries such as building will be protected by the
introduction of measures, which will provide security of payment for goods
& services. Options being considered include:
Compulsory insurance or
compulsory payment of a bond or compulsory regular payments throughout the term
of a contract or supply arrangement.
Market forces will control
the retail tenancy rent levels & lease conditions of the original lease
agreement.
Lessors will be required to
disclose all rental & associated charges, renewal, termination & lease
business sale conditions before a lease is signed.
Rent increases &
decreases in the term of a lease will be linked to the CPI only. Existing
leases will be subjected to this condition from the date this change is
legislated or regulated.
When a business is sold the
lease is to provide for the transfer of the lease to the incoming business
owner, with a release clause for the outgoing owner; lessors will not be
permitted to charge a fee for profit to offer a new lease, nor may they
unreasonably withhold consent to a change of tenant.
Lessors will not be permitted
to discriminate between anchor (large) & minor tenants by allowing
discounts of more than 20% of rent per metre to anchor tenants.
Whilst Quality Assurance
& Business Plans are necessary for the running of most businesses, we
believe that Quality Assurance is not required for most small non-manufacturing
businesses, as the cost of certification is in most cases excessive & not
affordable. In affect it is just another tax & means of raising revenue,
which we will remove.
MAJOR RETAILERS
Market Dominance
The trade Practices Act will
be reviewed in relation to Market dominance within key sections of the economy
by major retailers & following a parliamentary inquiry; a cap will be
established on their market share.
Large Shopping Centres
A national model will be
established to provide a socio-economic impact test, which can be used by state
& local governments when considering applications for new shopping centres.
GOVERNMENT RED TAPE
One Nations objective is to
reduce this to the barest minimum. Since this original small business policy was
drafted in 1988, many states have introduced legislation to assist or control
small business. Generally it has also increased the amount of red tape, we have
also seen the introduction of Globalisation & its affects on manufacturing
& small business as most Australian owned companies are taken over by the
multinationals, with help from our foreign owned banks & weak dollar. The
Government is hell-bent on selling off all our assets; this will mean increased
charges for just about all the necessities of life.
TOURISM
The Australian Tourist
Commission is an Australian Government Statutory Authority established in 1967
to promote Australia as an international tourism destination the principal
objectives under the Australian Tourist Commission Act 1987 are to: increase
the number of visitors to Australia from overseas; maximise the benefits to
Australia from overseas visitors;
Most of our key resorts are
now foreign owned, most by the Japanese who fly here in their own planes, stay
at their own hotels, travel around in their own buses, shop at their own shops
using their own money.
Tourism offers few real job
opportunities, being dependent on it is like selling your sons & daughters
into prostitution, & slave conditions in emporiums & resorts owned by
the ultra rich.
Tourism is the least
profitable & most vulnerable enterprise in a shaky world economy. Only $13
billion comes from business travel & tourism, this would have to increase
four to five times to overcome the deficit on trade in manufactured goods. It
does not offer many real job opportunities for those that are displaced from
our manufacturing industry.
DEFINING TOURISM
In the way that government
& corporate interests use it, the term tourism is an obstacle to
understanding by the wider community.
The term is purely generic
& uses too broad a brush to paint a meaningful picture.
From the point of view of
responsible government, our first regional management role should be to
identify the primary market attractions, tourism icons & sub-icons, which
ultimately define the industry.
Second, we should identify
essential servicing industries; tours, tour guides, agents, icon managers,
on-site accommodation & transport services.
Then we should look at the
extent of the next tier of service, providing complementary support &
backup to the group; the food providers; liquor, music, & entertainment
providers; photo shops, souvenir outlets & myriad other services &
retail outlets.
Finally, at the end of this
line, should be the airlines, coach companies & hotel chains associated
with the icon-to-icon transit phase, & international arrival &
departure.
Quite clearly, the primary
service providers & on-site managers are closest to the action. They are at
the industry interface & are the best positioned to monitor tourist's
motivations & their ever-changing tastes. The industry should be guided by
their reports as to the nature & extent of current market demand.
Hotel & airline managers,
developers, coach companies, retailers & government & council
bureaucracies, all of these upsurp this all-important role purely because they
are bigger; they carry more weight.
In the prevailing environment
of government by lobby, this overloading of one end of the industry see-saw is
inevitable.
With the erosion of
democratic process, the primary service providers & the wider community
have no input, either to correct industry lurches in the wrong direction, or to
contain developments that harm the tourist attractions or the hosting community
or both.
Over-development certainly attracts
some tourists, but it drives away hundreds of times more. Lost to sight, &
to analytical focus, is the original tourism attraction.
If we structure our thinking,
we are reminded that we want tourists to visit our particular region because we
want them to spend money; money more importantly, that is retained by our
regional owned businesses & which then filters through the local economy
benefiting the entire community.
From a business perspective,
not to mention a patriotic one, we do not want foreign-owned enterprises
siphoning off our tourism-generated wealth, nor do we want them to intrude
negatively on our tourism attractions & icons, nor on our social or natural
environments. We do certainly do not want them to take control of our industry.
It needs to be recognised
that the hospitality & transport industries are essentially incidental
& complementary to the experiential journey of the tourist in Australia.
Nobody travels twelve thousand kilometres to experience a hotel or an
interstate flight.
Ref.
"Tourism & Wealth Retention" by Tony Ryan.
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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:
#13 LAW &
JUSTICE
One Nation will take a tough
line on all crime. Distribution & use of drugs are a criminal offence &
will be treated as such; free needles & other forms of encouragement will
cease. We will have truth in sentencing & equality in justice.
We will ensure it’s the
criminal that suffers not the victims & people have the right to defend
their property & to be safe in their homes or on the street, especially our
seniors.
POLICY #13: LAW & JUSTICE
One Nation believes that zero
tolerance with discretion should be the guiding principal of dealing with
crime.
The right of citizens to use
all reasonable means to protect their property themselves & others against
criminal acts.
Drugs are the major cause of
crime: One Nation proposes a hard line on them, with legislation for a binding
referendum on mandatory capital punishment for manufacturers & traffickers
of hard drugs. Confiscation of their property upon conviction, with a fund set
up to compensate victims, payment of rewards for reporting drug offences &
dealers. Those convicted of a drug offence will have it stamped on their
passport. We oppose encouragement of drug use including: injection rooms, methadone,
free needles.
Truth in Sentencing
Mandatory imprisonment for
offenders involved in violent crime, organised crime or drug trafficking.
Victims: -Courts must pay due
attention to victim impact statements. In cases of violent crime including
sexual offences, all victims must be informed of the offenders release from
custody.
Legislation should be
introduced that puts the rights & protection of law abiding citizens above
the rights of criminals.
Treating those who do adult
crimes as adults, with boot camps set up for first time Juvenile offenders, to
ensure they receive training & discipline about their role &
responsibility to society
Vandalism: to be treated as crime, as it has now grown to such a
level that it is costing councils, rate & taxpayers millions of dollars per
year. This is a complete waste of public funds, all due to the lack of social
responsibility, from home, schools, to courts.
Law needs to be changed
making parents responsible for all costs from vandalism until their children
are of age.
Schools should teach
responsibilities not rights.
Courts need to impose heavy
penalties on repeat offenders, after the
first warning, repeat offenders to be treated as adult criminals.
Offenders should be given the
option to clean up & repair all damage, with sale of their property or jail
with hard labour until they earn enough to pay for the rectification of damage
& compensation.
Compensation: -Compulsory
standards must be set for courts to award compensation to victims of crime.
Naming of young criminals who
are serial offenders to ensure accountability
Car theft to be treated as a
crime.
One Nation will correct the
Coalition's failed & costly firearm policy & replace it with effective
laws that overcome the use of firearms by criminals.
Lie detectors & DNA
testing to be accepted as evidence in solving crime. They have both proven to
be infallible, & eliminate any doubt & time wasting & excessive
costs as caused by the current adversel system. To defend a charge in court today
costs at least $150,000.00, few can afford justice at this price.
Selection & direction of
Judges & magistrates to be taken out of the political arena.
Desecration of the Australian
Flag to be a criminal offence.
One Nation will ensure
justice is affordable for all.
THE CONSTITUTION
Fraser's Attorney-General Bob
Ellicott signed both the World Heritage Act, subsequently used to subvert
Section 100 of the Constitution in the Franklin Dam case, & the convention
for the Elimination of Discrimination on the basis of Sex, Marital Status, Race
or Religion. Signing of such treaties is in breach of the Constitution &
are there fore illegal. One Nation will withdraw from all illegal treaties
& charge those who sign them with treason.
Synonymous with the Parliamentary
breakdown is a breakdown in the justice system. Justice depends on equality
before the law; the volume of new laws & regulations is astounding. One
Nation will review them, withdraw those illegally signed, & reduce others
to a minimum, & restore justice in Australia.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING
Law & Justice covers
the following: Civil Rights,
Complaints, Courts, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Justice System, Law
Reform, Legal Services, Legislation, Police Services.
AUSTRALIA’S FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
The Australian Federal
Constitution was designed primarily as a set of rules to govern the
relationship between the central, or Federal Government, & the States. It
was hoped that these rules would in no way infringe on the traditional rights
& freedoms of the individual.
Constitutional developments
in Australia had their roots deep in British constitutional development, &
Australians are fortunate that their fore-fathers had as a model on which to
shape the high ideals contained in the constitution a remarkable development of
British constitutionalism going back to Magna Carta in 1215, & beyond.
The most sinister aspect of
the continuing campaign to subvert the Federal Constitution has been the misuse
of the External Powers by Federal Governments to enter into international
agreements & conventions on a wide variety of subjects many of which have
traditionally been under State jurisdiction & then to argue that because of
the external agreements, the Federal Government had the constitutional right to
legislate for the whole of Australia, even if this conflicted with State
policies. By this procedure Federal Governments could, without consulting the
people by referendum, progressively increase power over all aspects of
Australian Life.
Australians were jolted into
a realisation of how their Federal Constitution was being subverted when the
High Court began handing down decisions allowing International Law to overrule
our sovereignty.
Justice today is only for the
wealthy, it is no longer affordable for the average Australian. Accountability
& selection of the judiciary needs to be overhauled, as frequently their
decisions do not reflect the real world & expectations of the people.
CRIME
The Commonwealth Government
has a number of departments dealing with crime eg:
Australian Secret
Intelligence Service (ASIS)
Australian Bureau of Criminal
Intelligence
Australian Federal Police
Australian Institute of
Criminology
Australian Customs Service
The Australian Institute of
Criminology is the national focus for the study of crime & criminal justice
in Australia & for the dissemination of criminal justice information. The
Institute draws on information supplied to it by a wide variety of sources
& its policy advice is supposed to be objective & independent.
Advise handed down by this
department, eventually ends up as legislation, so its independence &
objectivities must be maintained Unfortunately politics have overruled in
recent times, a typical example was Howard's illegal gun laws which are in
breech of the Bill of rights.
Australians are concerned
about the rapid escalation of crime in recent years. The situation is now
reached a stage where we are not even safe in our homes. The blame for this
comes back to bad government & politicians not willing to face up to
reality.
For example the results for 2
years are now in from Howard's Gun Laws:
Australia-wide manslaughter
up by 32%
Australia-wide unarmed
robberies are up 28%
Australia-wide kidnapping up
by 38%
Australia-wide armed
robberies are up 73%
Victoria has an increase in
homicides with firearms of 300%
Figures over the previous 25
years show a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms. There has been a
dramatic increase in break-ins & assaults on seniors
Drugs are a major cause of
crime & account for more deaths than the road toll, & when it comes to
car theft Australia leads the world.
Foreign criminals are
welcomed to the country, due to their ethnicity & political correctness the
police can do little to control their operations.
Taking the soft options on
crime is clearly not working; crime is now a major issue in this country. We
tend to be governed by greed rather than justice & morality, in other words
anything that can be licensed & taxed becomes legal.
Labor encourages drug
addiction: Teachers are forbidden to
tell children that the illegal use of drugs & heroin is wrong. This applies
to most Western countries. In NSW part of page 47 of the "Reference Book
for Parents & Citizens Associations, 1985" reads as follows:
"Teachers should never
give undue emphasis to, nor in any way underline the dangers of drugs.
Educators should be
particularly careful that the do not replace ignorance with bigotry".
Ethnic gangs that are the
main cause of crime in Australia,
according to the retiring NSW Police Commissioner. (See report by Paul Sheehan
" Ripe for revolt, a suburb under siege" details of ethnic crime in
Sefton NSW. Moslem gangs now rule the once quite working class suburbs of
Auburn, Punchbowl & Bankstown, turning these areas into Moslem enclaves of
violence & corruption, & raping Australian girls & women. This
comes back to the lack of discrimination by the Dept of Immigration in allowing
terrorists into the country.
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ONE NATION POLICY
#14 PRIMARY INDUSTRY
#14 PRIMARY INDUSTRY POLICY STATEMENT
One Nation believes that our
primary industries are a national asset & critical to our security. One
Nation will support continued growth in our primary industries, encouraging
environment-friendly economical sustainable production, & ethical resource
use. Confident viable rural communities, safe food, & protection against
imported pests & diseases, innovation in science & technology, & a
sound return on investment for Australia.
One Nation will protect our
primary industries from deregulation, native title, globalism & treaties
that threaten, competitiveness. Energy prices & other costs of production
will be reduced, new technologies will be used to preserve foods, control
insect pests, & ensure water supplies.
The Australian Government in
the pursuit of globalism have managed to destroy our rural industries to the
extent that we now borrow money to import food we once produced here. ONE
NATION the only party to represent the farmers will reverse this.
POLICY #14: PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
The Australian fishing &
aquaculture industries are Australia's fifth most valuable rural industry after
wool, beef, wheat & dairy. Exciting opportunities exist for further growth
through aquaculture & increasing returns from current commercial catches
through value adding. The challenge is to develop these valuable industries
while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of the marine ecosystem
& respecting the rights of other users.
Australia is capable of
producing any agriculture product needed for use or consumption by its people.
The livelihood of efficient traditional producers must not be destroyed by low
priced imports. Tariffs (or adjustments) must be provided to protect endangered
agricultural products. The USA, EEC & Japan will not stop protecting their
farmers in order to buy Australian farm products. We must do the same. Imports
that endanger the health of our primary industries must be excluded. Our ocean fisheries must be
protected to exclude poachers & prevent overfishing.
One Nation will establish
marketing boards to ensure a fair price for rural commodities. Importation of
food products to be restricted to protect local industry, quoters given only
for products not produced here.
One Nation believes value adding to
rural produce to be a priority. Processing & manufacturing plants to be
established in wheat & wool producing regions to add value to the products
in those regions, within those regions. In particular flour mills & food
processing factories, cotton mills, wool scours & woollen mills. This will
reduce the export of raw materials, & reduce freight costs, whilst value
adding.
One Nation supports the
Australian farmers, many true indigenous Australians, tracing back to our early
settlers. Have worked hard over the to establish & develop their
properties, & improve farming practices, & despite the odds have become
the most efficient producers in the world. Unfortunately previous governments
have subverted our constitution, by signing foreign treaties & trade
agreements. This has threatened & done much harm to our primary producers,
including the sugar, cotton, wool & wheat sectors that contribute $13
billion annually in exports, it means their domestic market worth $56 billion
will be at the mercy of imports. One Nation will withdraw from these harmful
treaties.
One Nations goal is to assist
our forestry industry to grow improve & capitalize on new opportunities
while protecting the environment & contributing to the prosperity &
quality of life in rural & regional Australia. While forests will continue
to provide sustainable produced wood, we will increasingly reduce pollution,
control salinity & improve conservation.
One Nation will promote &
elevate kangaroo meat consumption both domestically & export, highlighting
it's health benefits & the fact that kangaroos are more suited to large
areas of Australia, particularly the drier more fragile environments than
introduced hoofed livestock. Profitable commercial breeding of kangaroos will
be the greatest guarantee of their long term survival.
One Nation upon investigation
of the live exports of sheep, cattle etc, now questions it. A recent report
estimates the total cost of the live export trade to Australia could be $1.7
billion in lost GDP, around $280 in household income & around 12,000 jobs.
One Nation opposes this cruel
trade to satisfy a barbaric Islamic Cult, & the export of purebred breeding
stock. Our policy is to value add all exports, thus creating Australian jobs
& income not trading losses.
One Nation will ensure
stringent quarantine inspection & treatment procedures to prevent the
import of pests, diseases, & noxious weeds.
One Nation supports timber
production & harvesting in state forests providing it is, conducted on an
efficient sustainable basis, & that management practices are in place to
minimise environmental damage.
One Nation supports the
return to the regulated farm gate price of milk.
One Nation will ensure truth
in labelling of all products, with country of origin to be stated, along with
local & imported content. 100% Australian produced to be highlighted.
One Nation will ensure the
future of the Australian Cane growers (Sugar Industry) by returning the embargo
on all imported sugar & a tariff on imported sugar products, out of which
an assistance package will be paid directly to the cane farmer, in line with
that of other sugar producing countries. Excise on bi-products from Australian
sugar will be removed.
One Nation supports the
Australian farmers, who have worked hard over many years, too develop their
properties & improve farming practices, becoming the most efficient
producers in the world. we will encourage them to continue & improve these
long-term sustainable productive levels, & will oppose UN treaties aimed at
destroying them.
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Primary Industry; encompasses
the following departments; Agriculture, Animal & Plant Health, Farmers,
Fisheries, Forestry, Grants, Quarantine & Inspection.
The Commonwealth Department
of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry - Australia (AFFA) has the dual roles
of providing customer services to the agricultural, food, fisheries &
forestry industries, & addressing the challenges of natural resource
management. It also helps build & promote the whole food & fibre chain
from paddock to plate for domestic
& international markets.
AFFA'S contribution to its
customers is to help their industries become more competitive, profitable &
sustainable.
AFFA Organization
Structure
The Australian Quarantine
& Inspection Service (AQIS) provides quarantine inspection services for the
arrival of international passengers, cargo, mail, animals & plants or their
products into Australia, & inspection & certification for a range of
animal & plant products exported from Australia.
AFFA's goal is to assist our
forestry industry to grow, improve & capitalise on new opportunities while
protecting the environment & contributing to the prosperity & quality
of life in rural & regional Australia. While forests will continue to
provide sustainable produced wood, it will increasingly provide opportunities
to help reduce
pollution, control salinity
& improve biodiversity
conservation.
APPLES
Australian Apples are under
threat from imports from New Zealand as The Agricultures Department’s
Biosecurity Australia, is proposing to allow imports of apples Bananas etc
following the release of a new draft Import Risk Analyses (IRA). Under the
Australian Constitution this organization has no power to negotiate any
treaties or trade deals, beyond issuing reports, final decisions must be put to
the people at a referendum.
FISHING & AQUACULTURE
The Australian fishing &
aquaculture industries are Australia's fifth most valuable rural industry after
wool, beef, wheat & dairy. Exciting opportunities exist for further growth
through aquaculture & increasing returns from current commercial catches
through value adding.
The challenge is to develop
these valuable industries while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of
the marine ecosystem & respecting the rights of other users.
The
prawn industry is worth $140 million a year to Queensland & is now under
threat from dumped prawns from China landed here at as little as $5.50 a kilo
(cost of local production $7.80 a kilo). These imports also pose a serious
disease threat, for this reason imports should be banned, an immediate 400%
tariff should be imposed as the US has done to protect jobs in the industry.
QUEENSLAND BANANA INDUSTRY:
Rosa Lee Long ON MP for
Tablelands, reports that Queensland & the Tablelands burgeoning banana
industry is under threat from proposed imports from the Philippines.
There is a grave disease risk
from black sigatoka, moko, freckle, bugtok & bract mosaic, these are so
devastating that they are known collectively as the black plague. Other fruit
industries including pineapples are also under threat from imports from countries
that pay slave labour rates of pay. The $400 million a year banana industry
will be wiped out if present quarantine restrictions are weakened. Evidently
the Philippines Agriculture Minister has interests in that countries largest
live cattle import industry, this brings in the question of ethics our
coalition governments are prepared to destroy our banana industry to support
this barbaric business & precede over the demise of our rural &
manufacturing industry, in their pursuit of globalism & personal gain.
One Nation is opposed to this
& will work to reverse the situation.
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
In Queensland, 85% of dairy
farmers did not want deregulation; in NSW 83% & WA 66% opposed it. Despite that,
Australian governments set about sacrificing the industries in three states,
leaving a couple of co-operatives in Victoria to supply the entire continent.
In January 1999, the
Queensland dairy industry was deregulated. Farm quotas--limits on amounts the
government allows farmers to produce-remained in place though, but regulation
would cease at the farm gate.
In other words it was another
one of those funny 'deregulations"-the ones that make life easier for big
business, but more difficult for the Australian producer. A flood of imports
into Queensland has destroyed much of the Queensland industry.
In Queensland, milk sales in
greater Brisbane (60% of the state) are controlled by Paul’s (Parmalat Finaziaria,
the giant Italian multinational). In the rest of Queensland distribution is
largely in the hands of Dairy farmers, one of the last Australian-owned dairy
companies, which is now at the mercy of the Parmalat monopoly. (2/1/04
bankrupt)
The Federal Government's
reaction (predictably) was another taxpayer funded 'package' to help the
farmers leave the industry. It offered $1.8 billion 'repackaging' fund to be
funded by an 11 cents per litre levy on milk, over four to five years. In other
words, remaining farmers & consumers will between them, fund the handover
of the Australian dairy industry to foreign multinationals. The payments made
to displaced farmers will be taxable, so the Federal Government will reap $460
million in taxation from a fund paid for by producers & consumers.
Some dairy farmers who have
been in the industry for many generations have refused to capitulate, &
have set up their own bottling plants & distribution. One from the town of
Nanango 'Same Day Fresh Milk' has been run off their feet by the demand. Some
retail outlets are refusing Paul’s milk in favour of the local producers,
however the large super markets present a problem.
By November 2000, dairy
farmers in Queensland have seen their incomes drop by up to 40% as the price
paid to producers plummeted. Farmers who requested assistance hadn't seen a
penny of it, & de-regulation was already having adverse impacts on local
communities. However consumer milk prices escalated along with the profits of
multinationals.
The Australian Milk
Producers’ Association Ltd condemns the Federal Government’s attempt to cover
up the disaster of dairy deregulation.
The best the Government could
do in using the ACCC to justify deregulation was to focus on a product which
comprises less than 12% of total drinking milk sales & choose only a nine
month period out of a 5 year deregulation process.
Contrary to the ACCC
implication, farmers producing drinking milk only receive 4.4 cents of the
11-cent consumer levy.
The Federal Government can
not hide from the facts that consumers Australia-wide are conservatively paying
$275 million a year extra for their milk & farmers receiving $500 million
less for the supply of that milk. Deregulation has failed.
State & Federal
Governments will use 'health regulations', health scares & other devious
tactics in an attempt to destroy the few independent farmers that remain.
ONE NATION condemns
deregulation & is the only party committed to take up the cause of the
dairy farmers, ensuring they remain in business.
FOOD PRESERVATION:
Some 25-30% of the food
harvested is lost as a result of spoilage by microbes & pests. In a hungry
world we cannot afford this. The reduction of spoilage due to infestation &
contamination is of the utmost importance. This is especially so in hot &
humid climates & where an extension of shelf life of certain foods, even by
days, is often enough to save them from spoiling before they can be consumed.
In all parts of the world
there is growing use of irradiation technology to preserve food. In almost 40
countries health & safety authorities have approved irradiation of many
kinds of food, ranging from spices, grains & grain products to fruit,
vegetables & meat. On their trips into space, astronauts eat foods
preserved by irradiation.
As well as reducing spoilage
after harvesting, increased use of food irradiation is driven by concerns about
food borne diseases as well as growing international trade in foodstuffs which
must meet stringent standards of quality.
It is important to
understand that the irradiation of food does not make food radioactive!
Radiation is also used to
sterilize food packaging. In the Netherlands, for example, milk cartons are
freed from bacteria by irradiation.
Following three decades of
testing a worldwide standard was adopted by the WHO, FAO & IAEA. The
Federal Government has also given it the green light; despite the usual
well-orchestrated litany of lies from the usual Rockefeller funded
organizations.
One Nation supports food
irradiation as a vital technology to assist in the export of Australian foods,
but it is not to be used in reverse.
FACTS ON FORESTS:
The forests are not
disappearing.
Australia has approximately
43,300,000 hectares of native forests.
7,100,000 hectares of this are
State Forests managed specifically on
a sustainable basis for wood production.
About 1% of the 7,100,000
hectares is harvested & regenerated every year, which means that any area
logged, on average, will not be logged again for 100 years,
Australia has a permanent
forest preservation system of over 10,000,000 hectares.
One Nations goal is to assist
our forestry industry to grow improve & capitalise on new opportunities
while protecting the environment & contributing to the prosperity &
quality of life in rural & regional Australia. Forests will continue to
provide wood, & we will continue to reduce pollution, control salinity
& improve conservation, by
eliminating waste of forest
products (eg.biomass power plants).
KANGAROO MANAGEMENT
One Nation proposes promoting
the export of kangaroo products to our trading partners, particularly the USA,
Germany & UK.
Commission a scientific
review on the number of kangaroos, which can be sustainable harvested, allowing
for the concerns of grazers &, of course a viable healthy population of
wild kangaroos at all times.
Promote the environmental
benefits if grazers choose to switch from hoofed animals to kangaroos, which
they will only do if the kangaroo industry is viable.
Only the common species,
being the red & grey kangaroos & the Wallaroo be included in wild
commercial harvesting.
Note. Kangaroo meat is
extremely lean & has virtually no cholesterol.
Soft-footed kangaroos cause
less damage to the ground than hoofed sheep, goats or cattle-environmentally
responsible land management.
Kangaroos don't require
drenching (worming) & hence are organic.
Running kangaroos on fragile
country must be more appealing to the "greenies" than cattle or
sheep.
A new industry for the rural
sector - jobs.
THE PORK INDUSTRY
Forty years ago there were
40,000 pork producers in Australia; there are now 3,000. The sharp decline in
recent times has been achieved by the removal of import restrictions on the
importation of pork from Canada & Denmark, which was confirmed by an
independent report produced by the University of Queensland. The standard
globalist line was that
pork imports were being
allowed in "because Australia wants to maintain its overseas markets for
beef & grain, Australia has to take Canadian pork, otherwise there might be
trade sanctions. This means that in the climate of so-called global "free
trade" some industries have to be sacrificed so that others can survive.
(like the sugar industry)
When Australia's pork
producers complained, the federal government's response was to put up yet
another rural assistance package.
The Queensland Primary
Industries Minister slammed it as a "cruel joke on pork producers...,
which ignores the plight of Queensland pork producers & their families
& treats with contempt the communities who depend on the pork industry for
their survival. The federal government remained unmoved. It was good for
Australia to get out of pork.
In late 2000 there was
something of a turnaround in the position of Australia's pork producers, due to
the Nipah virus, which struck producers in Malaysia. The result was an
unexpected export market in Singapore, which is now taking over $100 million in
Australian pork exports annually. Exports of pork have risen from $663 million
in 1998/99 to $901 million this financial year- over $340,000 for the average
pork producer. The biggest exporter a foreign company Bunge Meat Industries.
Imports from Canada & Denmark continue to increase, adding to our foreign
debt.
ONE NATION will re-impose
restrictions on all imported pork & associated products.
SUGAR INDUSTRY HISTORY & DESTRUCTION
Introduced into Australia in
1788 on the First Fleet, sugar did not make headway until 1862, when a cane
plantation was established near Brisbane. In 1870 a system of large central
sugar mills was introduced by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (now
CSR). After the import of Pacific
Islands labourers (Kanakas) was prohibited in 1901, 40 years of indentured labour
in the cane fields ended & the industry became dominated by small family
operated farms, as it is today.
In 1996 Australia was the 7th
largest sugar producing nation in the world, producing more than 5 million
tonnes of sugar a year, of which about 85% was exported. Raw sugar earnings in
1995-96 were more than $1.6 billion. Queensland was responsible for 95% of raw
sugar production & all raw sugar exports.
That production was the
result of the efforts of about 6400 cane growers on farms, which averaged 75
hectares in size. They supplied 25 raw sugar mills located in 4 major regions
along the Queensland coast.
19,000 people worked directly
in the industry, cane growing, sugar milling, refining, storing, &
marketing, & a further 26,000 people were employed indirectly. The industry
had been very successful. It has even been expanding, growing by 40% between
1990-1996 with the first new mill in 70 years planned for Atherton in far north
Queensland.