Immigration

                      FEDERAL POLICY: IMMIGRATION

One Nation believes in balanced, zero net immigration (subject to review depending on economic conditions) and that coming to Australia is a privilege that must not be undervalued. We reserve the right of discretion in protecting our economy, social cohesion and cultural heritage.

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This does NOT mean zero immigration, as the program would admit in the order of 30,000 migrants per annum.
The justification for our policy of not exceeding zero net immigration is that environmentally, Australia is near her carrying capacity. Economically, immigration is unsustainable and socially, if continued as is, will lead to an ethnically divided Australia.

Current policy is encouraging large numbers of illegal migrants and it is time Australia, while recognising the contribution made by migrants in the past, sends to the world the message that mass immigration has passed its “use by date.”

It is now critical to develop a population policy for Australia in order to decide immigration numbers rationally and in the best interest of Australians.

The immigration policies of the major political parties during the 80s and 90s have proven disastrous, proceeding as if there were no balance of payments problem, no foreign debt and no geographical or environmental constraints to population growth.

If continued, such an immigration policy will irreversibly alter the natural and urban environment, economic viability as well as undermining the maintenance and further development of a unique and valuable Australian identity and culture.

• 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 and environment.

• 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 brought back to the 1960 percentages to protect our culture and heritage and promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being Australian. (The real cost of immigration adds at least $15 billion p.a. to our foreign debt).

• One Nation will re-Australianise the department by returning to its correct name "Immigration Department". We will dismantle the multiculturalism part and restore democratic choice to ensure it reflects the will and aspirations of Australians.

• Australian "citizenship" is a valued privilege. To qualify, it will be necessary to study the Australian Constitution and laws and after five years, pass a test in English and swear allegiance to the crown and flag. This will eliminate the expense of printing material in foreign languages and ensure assimilation and employment of those genuinely wanting to become good citizens in their adopted country.

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• The carriers (airlines and shipping) who convey people to the country without documentation will be responsible for them. This includes immediate return to port of embarkation and any other costs incurred.

• One Nation will withdraw from UN treaties on migration and refugees that conflict with our sovereign rights and laws, and amend laws if required.

• DISCRETION: This means freedom of judgement or choice, to choose wisely. With the current terrorist problems this is essential. It is not intended to stereotype any group. 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 new migrants.
• Migrants passing a complete and thorough health check before acceptance being granted, including AIDS, Hepatitis, TB.

• In the event of the threat of any foreign deadly pandemic outbreak such as the “BIRD FLU” and “SWINE FLU”, consideration of all tourism and immigration from that infected country or area should be suspended until Quarantine officials have full control and give the all clear. Returning Australians would be required to remain in quarantine until cleared.

• Stricter conditions of entry of temporary visitor’s visas etc as there is no large amount of these vaccines yet fully available and could be almost impossible to achieve. At the moment, there is not yet enough for essential staff like Government members, hospital staff, Police, doctors, military, Red Cross, firemen, SES or even undertakers. We cannot take any risks till there is enough vaccine for all the population (that may never happen). This is a very serious situation and should not be put off until an outbreak occurs. It necessitates a high priority, for once its here it’s too late!

• Anyone who travels from or between these infected countries should undergo de-contamination procedures when they leave that country and also when they arrive in Australia.

• Family reunion should be restricted to immediate family and that Australian relatives should 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 and social services.

• The character of peoples 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 and Immigration, responsible for protection of our coastline from illegal invaders, goods (drugs, firearms) and terrorists, control and monitoring of entry and leaving of people and goods, issue of passports, visas and other documentation.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: IMMIGRATION

Australia does not presently write its own immigration policy in spite of any claims to the contrary. It yielded that right when it signed an international agreement, The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at the United Nations on 13th October 1966. This was ratified on 13th September 1975, without a referendum and against the will of the people as required under the

Constitution.
Coalition governments have used this to deliberately introduce into Australia people who have no intention of giving their loyalty to Australia and its people, while at the same time people from where our founding ancestors originated, are deliberately prevented from entering. Our standard of living and health services have declined. Crime and taxes have increased in proportion to increased immigration.

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IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT
Immigration Department covers the following: Citizenship, Grants, Illegal Migration, and Migrant Services, Migrating to Australia, Passports and 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 and 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.
Instead of protecting our Australian culture and heritage, they are imposing, by stealth, a new agenda for multicultural Australia.

The proliferation of taxpayer-funded departments to perpetuate this is wasting millions of dollars. Assets tests are imposed and senior’s pensions are raided to fund it. Multiculturalism has failed everywhere. It is negative and divisive, a weight that is drowning our once safe and cohesive society.

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 and expression; this right includes the right to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

This is now the outcry when the people of Australia try to debate their future and protect the country from the failed evils of multiculturalism.
IMMIGRATION DETENTION AMENDMENT BILL 2003

The speech on immigration by Senator Len Harris clearly points out some of the loopholes that allow illegals (criminals, drug dealers and 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 and costs. The loophole in sect. 1963 of the Immigration Act allows illegals to appeal and to be released into the community for up to 540 days on an interlocutory order. These people are now in detention centres because they have chosen to be.

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 and other areas.
Len Harris clearly pointed out ONE-NATION policies when speaking to this bill that will eliminate this loophole.

The Department of Immigration is the only necessary authority in matters of immigration. Migration agents have cost the Australian Taxpayer an estimated $41 million in the last 12 months in legal bills.

NATIONAL POLICY: MULTICULTURALISM
Multiculturalism has failed everywhere. It is negative and divisive, a weight that is drowning our once safe and cohesive society.

One Nation will abolish multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act and promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being an Australian. (One Nation will eliminate the Department of Multiculturalism.

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As a government policy, multi racialism encompassed measures to destroy the Australian culture. It played a large part in migrant selection in an attempt to prevent them from assimilating into Australian society.

ONE NATION will abolish multi racialism and the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 based on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as it is unconstitutional.

We will replace it with a policy of assimilation in which it will be made clear to all those applying to migrate to Australia that coming to Australia is a privilege that gives them an overriding, unifying commitment to Australia, to its past, current interests and future first and foremost.

They must accept the basic structures and principles of Australian heritage, society and culture, the Constitution and the rule of law, tolerance and equality, Parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, and English as the national language.

Whilst they may come from other countries and cultures, loyalty to Australia and Australian Nationalism must come first. Australia was founded on Christian beliefs; we do not accept cults that wish to deny our freedoms.
SBS

• The principal function of the SBS is to provide radio and television services that inform, educate, and entertain all Australians and in doing so, reflect Australian society and assist assimilation of newcomers.

• The SBS, in performing its principal function, must:
1. Contribute to meeting the communication needs of Australia's society.
2. Increase awareness of the contribution that we have all made to the development of Australian society.
3. Promote understanding and acceptance of the Australian culture and political awareness.
4. Contribute to the retention and development of our English language and Australian culture.
5. As far as practicable, inform, educate and entertain new Australians in their new language.
6. Make use of Australia's creative resources.

7. Contribute to the overall diversity of Australian television and radio services, providing accurate politically free independent news service and contribute to extending the range of Australian television and radio services, particularly as an alternative to the current commercial stations.

8. SBS shall continue to screen international movies in their native dialect with English captions, and producing documentaries covering individual cultures, which have made Australia their new homeland. SBS was established as an independent statutory authority on 1 January 1978 under the Broadcasting Act 1942.

The Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991 came into effect on 23rd December 1991 and established SBS as a corporation. SBS audience share is 4.25%, however operating revenue is 76% government funded.

To cater for the needs of the majority of Australians, One Nation suggests the changing of SBS charter to as per our policy.

Australia’s essentially Anglo-Saxon culture and heritage is being broken up by the policy of multiculturalism, a racist immigration policy that favours clashing culture migrants over migrants of British or European origin. Australians are being conditioned by the media to believe that any other policy amounts to ‘discrimination’ when in fact it means to choose wisely. In fact multiculturalism discriminates against Australia’s British-derived culture and is intended to destroy it.

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CULTURAL HERITAGE
Australians have worked hard and fought world wars to protect our culture, freedoms, and Christian religions, system of law and democracy and so-called western style of living. Cultural heritage is based on aspects of our past that we want to keep, appreciate and enjoy today and to pass on to future generations.

Those aspects of our past might evoke special meanings for us as individuals or as members of our community and reflect our moral values based on the Christian beliefs of our founders. Natural resources are an intrinsic part of the commonwealth of Australians, having significant meaning to those born here (indigenous). Australia hosts a tremendous store of cultural heritage.

The only party to expose and speak out against this injustice is One Nation. For daring to do this, its founder was vilified with the racist tag and the ‘honest’ men of the government set up a slush fund to pay for the manipulation of the legal system to jail her and scuttle One Nation.

Not because of any criminal ffence, but because she and our party are a threat to their corrupt political control and sell-out of ustralia to Globalism.

MIGRATION POLICY:
PRINCIPLES

1: Population Policy
A population policy must underwrite any immigration policy for Australia.
“Merely maximising the population is hardly a worthy goal for humanity."

Nathan Keyfitz.) Respected American demographer. 1972
Currently, a population policy considers the interrelationship between population, the environment, resource usage and carrying capacity, the economy and quality of life.

In other words, it asks how many people can live in Australia, at what standard of living and with what environmental impact. A population policy must be the result of unbiased scientific thinking and not be hijacked by the self-interests of the pro-immigration elites.

2: The Government’s Responsibility to its own Citizens.
A government’s responsibility surely is to protect its peoples’ welfare, security, environment, economy and standard of living. Our government’s responsibility should not be to intending migrants over and above its responsibility to current and future generations of Australians.

ONE NATION believes it is the Australian government’s responsibility to pass onto future generations of Australians, a country to be cherished, enjoyed and free from the problems of overpopulation and ever-growing massive foreign debt.
Previous governments have acted inappropriately through a confused responsibility to other nations. ONE NATION believes international obligations can be expressed through appropriate foreign aid to those most in need.

3: Duty of care.
Australians are the caretakers of the world’s oldest, driest, least fertile landmasses. In the face of environmental degradation in Australia we should be proceeding slowly with population, because growth will only exacerbate environmental problems.

The next generation has the right to inherit a country in a better environmental condition than the preceding era.

4: Opposed to mass immigration.
This should not be misinterpreted as being an anti-migrant philosophy. ONE NATION’S disagreement is with government policy.

5: Freedom of speech.
This should be extended to all discussions on immigration and multicultural policies; the cry of “Racism” should not be used to stifle debate or to promote violence against those who wish to debate these issues.

6: Who we are.
Australians, like other peoples of the world, has the right to maintain their unique identity and culture. It is never immoral to want to retain one’s own independence and identity.

Those who say that it is simply will not realise the existence and importance of Australian culture to our people. However, when it comes to peoples from other lands, their culture is of the greatest importance.

7: Whom we allow in.
Our migration intake will be non-discriminatory on condition that the numbers do not significantly alter the ethnic and cultural make up of our country.

8: The English language.
English is the official language of Australia. Government policy will encourage widespread use of English within all communities and in all the institutions of the land.

9: Refuge.
Compassion must be extended to genuine refugees; however temporary refuge need not extend to long-term permanent settlement in Australia.

10: Abolish multiculturalism.
The government’s institutionalised, publicly funded policy of multiculturalism is not in the best interests of either migrants or Australia, and will be abolished.

11: Right of entry.
No person, other than an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident of the Australian community, has the right to enter Australia.

12: Exceeding six months.
Any person entering Australia for a period in excess of six months must pass both health and character screening.

REASONS FOR POLICY

Environmental constraints.
Attention must be paid to the ability of the environment to sustain a population.
Australia suffers severe soil degradation and climatic uncertainty. It is a land of droughts and flooding rains and already faces declining agricultural productivity.

Only 10% of our huge landmass is fertile arable land but produces less grain per annum than two small states in the USA. The reality is that Australia may always be a relatively small producer by international standards, but agriculture export income is essential for this country. With the doubling of our population, presumably we double consumption of foods produced here and consequently have less for export income.

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Australia has a responsibility to protect its biodiversity and not allow its flora and fauna to be ousted from their habitats to extinction because of population or economic pressures. In comparison, the pro-immigration lobby feel we have no moral right to this land unless we push development beyond the limit.

Our population must be stabilised, as population growth will need to be stabilised elsewhere around the world. Current government propaganda states that more damage occurred in Australia during the early days of settlement with a small population, than in present times. This is blatantly untrue.

More degradation has occurred in Australia in the last 50 years, the years of high population growth, high economic growth and increasing trade, than in the previous 150 years. Over half that destruction has occurred in the last 25 years… (AGM of the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1995.)

As the world’s driest continent, constant reliable water supply is one of our major problems. Australia is a country that not only experiences low rainfall and high evaporation rates but also lacks any permanent snowfields.

The water flow of all Australian rivers combined does not make up the flow of a minor tributary of the Amazon. Our major river system is the Murray-Darling. Its basin carries half of Australia’s sheep and dairy herds and is now under great threat from rising salinity. Due to irrigation and urban demand, our current population is using ? of river flows and straining supply to its limits.

Our major cities have grown beyond optimum size. Pollution, sewage disposal, increasing traffic, urban sprawl, failing community services, high crime rates and a lower quality of life is occurring.

These crowded, smog covered cities, with all of the dysfunctional problems of Los Angeles, are the inevitable consequence of further mass immigration, yet current migration policy will double the size of those cities over the next 20 years. Is this what Australians want? So don’t plan to have a family of your own, you’ll take up the room needed for migration. Soon we may also have to have only one child per family, like China.

The Nation can not handle more people. Sydney is bursting at the seams. The debate ought to be about the carrying capacity of the continent- a continent that has lousy soils, fragile vegetation and depleted and degraded river systems.
2: Economic cost of immigration.
“It is time we considered the enormous cost
of bringing migrants to this country.”
(Paul Keating, Maiden speech to Parliament 1970)

To cope with our massive immigration program, which has produced the fastest population growth in the OECD (except for Turkey); we are spending $12 billion per annum. Australia is forced to build the equivalent of a city the size of Geelong, or half a Canberra, with the entire required infrastructure and social services just to cope with one year’s migrant intake.

Every migrant must be provided with accommodation, food, transport, employment, education etc and all the other basic necessities of modern life. This has been a major factor in giving Australia one of the highest per capita foreign debts in the world.

The pro-immigration Bureau of Immigration and Population Research could not find any economic benefits from our immigration program and concluded that immigration was economically “benign”. This conclusion was biased and an attempt to cover over the true cost, as the study omitted the inherent enormous infrastructure costs mentioned above.

Currently our Foreign Debt is $1.4 Trillion. Plus Australia’s current account deficit was up 4% to $19.49 billion (Australian Bureau of statistics 30/04/09), much of which is due to immigration. It is the impact of immigration on our foreign debt that is continually left out of any immigration or economic arguments.

Australia can no longer afford to fund all the services underpinning our standard of living which we as a community, expect, such as standards of medical treatment and hospitals, aged care, education, pension levels, sewage disposal and road provision.

Yet current immigration levels will double our population within 50 years while the foreign debt necessitates massive fund cutting to all our community services. We cannot afford to even maintain our current infrastructure let alone keep expanding it to cope with population growth!

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Australia still relies heavily on export income from mining and agriculture, neither of which requires more people. Indeed, due to trade and industry policies, we now rely heavily on imports for consumer goods that are no longer manufactured here, a demand that shall increase with a growing population. The cost of mass immigration has not been offset by growth in export income.
Unemployment.

A country in debt must decrease all spending. This means less jobs and higher unemployment. We now have approx two million unemployed with a shameful youth unemployment figure of around 30 %. To add 100,000 extra migrants each year is insanity.

These people predominantly take jobs from the existing pool or join the dole queue. 36 per cent of all migrants over the past five years have joined the long-term unemployed. This includes up to 90% of some ethnic groups. As technology replaces labour, employment opportunities could possibly significantly decline. Those promoting mass immigration should seriously consider this situation.

To create a new job in Australia requires a capital outlay of $150,000 per job. With foreign debt of $230 billion, we are in no position to create these new jobs. We have spent our scarce funds on immigration-induced growth rather than investing in plant, equipment, training and jobs in export and import replacement industries.
Skilled and business migration.

During the late 80s, the Department of Education, Employment and Training had difficulty identifying skills that could not be supplied from within Australia. This situation still has not changed. Skilled migrants are not matched with employment vacancies in Australia which leads to oversupply and/or the unemployment of immigrant and locally trained skilled persons.

ONE NATION will ensure that any skill entering Australia will be matched with a position that cannot be filled from within Australia. Skilled migration will not be used instead of training our own.

It is morally indefensible to import skilled labour into Australia merely because it is cheaper than training our own. Neither do we have the moral right to invite skilled people into our country whose education has been paid for by their mother country.
Australia has the responsibility not to put the dreams and aspirations of our youth on the scrap heap.

The Business Migration program was commenced in 1983 and rapidly developed a reputation as a fraudulent, crime-infested, money-laundering immigration rort. The Federal Public Accounts Committee investigated the program and concluded that it should be abolished.

A new program has replaced it and, as with the old program, the Immigration Department claims it to be a great success. During 1996-97 in excess of 200,000 Business Visitors Visas were issued. (The category of temporary business visas is discussed on page 15 & 17.)
ONE NATION has no faith in the present administration of the Business Migration Program. In many cases the surety money brought in does not even cover settlement costs.
ONE NATION will allow a continuation of a business migration program with the conditions that:
A) The proposed business activity is in the best interest of Australia.
B) The promised capital stays in Australia.
C) The business proposals are actually implemented.
Immigration status will be rescinded if investigation reveals the application to be fraudulent.

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Family reunion.
Family reunion has been driving our immigration program out of control for many years and with the cutting of total migrant numbers would naturally decrease as a category. Why should Australia always be the country in which the reunion takes place? The majority of these people are semi and unskilled and consequently have high unemployment rates.

There is no logic in continuing to bring into Australia hundreds of thousands of unskilled people when our manufacturing capacity has been sent offshore and unskilled jobs largely no longer exist.

Family responsibility should go hand in hand with family reunion and ONE NATION supports a 3-year waiting period before a migrant becomes eligible for social security benefits. The Australian taxpayer should not be asked to fund family reunion.
Compassionate factors for immediate dependent family members will always be taken into account.

6: Change of status migrants.
All change-of-status migrants will be included in the following year’s immigration figures. Change of status opportunities will be restricted and will only be granted if the change is proved to be in the best interest of Australia. Foreign fee-paying students should not presume that they would be able to change their status and remain in Australia. Access to education will not be a backdoor migration route.

7: Decentralisation.
Decentralisation is the latest catch cry from those who recognise that our major cities can no longer cope with more migrants. Because of our indebtedness, rural Australia has been stripped of all its services and has the highest unemployment youth rates in the country.

If we cannot look after the infrastructure supporting one of Australia’s import/export income-earning sectors, how then are we going to develop rural Australia to support many thousands of migrants?

8: Illegal Immigrants.
In the 20th century it is very easy to become an illegal migrant. Europe, USA, Australia and all the first world countries are now experiencing a massive influx of illegal migrants.

To keep people out, rather than encourage them in, will be the job of the Immigration Department in the 21st century. Current official figures concerning illegals in Australia are inaccurate. About 500 illegals on visitor visas enter Australia every week, primarily through our airports.

These people have had no health checks, will work for very low wages, are exploitable and often are forced into crime.
Australia needs accurate statistics concerning illegals and a well understood and community supported rationale for detection and deportation.

ONE NATION supports the detection and mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants with properly funded deportation services. Deportation is very difficult after many years of illegal residence, but the entire process must be facilitated and funded to enable rapid removal of illegals from Australia.

Proper detection, detention and deportation will act as a deterrent for others. Illegal migrants will not have access to taxpayer-funded legal aid and the appeal process.

9: Health.
Our hospital waiting lists are evidence that our health services are not coping. Further immigration will exacerbate waiting lists. No migrant will be admitted into Australia if known to be carrying a communicable disease that may put the health of the Australian public at risk and/or be a burden to the Australian taxpayer.

Many diseases are now being introduced or re-introduced into Australia. TB and Hepatitis B, primarily entering Australia from developing countries, is becoming an increasing problem. Rates of TB, a disease that was well controlled in Australia, are now alarmingly increasing.

Rates of TB contact, shown by positive Mantoux tests of 25 per cent in inner Sydney schools are now being seen. In future, all migrants, including children, will have a Mantoux test for TB and those with a positive test will be required to undergo a screening program when in Australia.

Any migrant having active TB will not be allowed into Australia until they produce proof of effective treatment. Failure to follow the screening program when in Australia will be grounds for heavy fines or deportation.

All migrants will be required to have a chest X-ray prior to entry.
Until all Australians at risk are immunised against Hepatitis B and C, Hepatitis carriers will be excluded from entry as migrants.

The government admits it does not have the resources to immunise all those at risk of Hepatitis or to provide the necessary TB screening procedures. Other health requirements currently in place will continue.
Protection of the community from all communicable disease will always take priority.

Defence.
As long ago as 1987, the Government policy paper on defence of Australia stated that, “No population increase is necessary for defence”. Let there be no hangover from the World War II “populate or perish” philosophy that migration is necessary for Australia’s defence. Indeed, a healthy economy and a cohesive and united society, not a divided multicultural society, are what are needed for our defence.
Refugee.

We accept the UNHCR definition of a refugee, that a refugee claimant shows a well-founded fear of persecution on his or her return to his or her own country.
Also, it is the contemporary situation that determines a claim, not events in the past.

In an increasingly unpredictable world with political, economic, religious, racial, environmental and socio-ethnic instability, an increasing flood of refugees is occurring.

In the current world situation of 15 million refugees, Australia’s refugee program which accepts 12,000 per annum (one of the largest per capita by a developed country), is nothing more than a token gesture, as it gives no assistance to the 99% of refugees left behind. Any program that helps 0.1 % of refugees does nothing for 99.9% and costs billions, is indeed unfair and immoral.

ONE NATION believes in providing temporary refuge until the danger in the refugee’s country has elapsed. There is no assumption of automatic permanent residence in Australia; however, the time frame may range from a fortnight to a decade.

Multicultural Policy.
ONE NATION understands the desire for migrants to maintain their heritage in Australia. But, the desire Australians have to maintain their culture, history and traditions must take precedence.

The Australian national culture is unique, emphasising a balance of way of life free of excessive striving and materialism. As in Canada and New Zealand, Australia has incorporated the best features of British, Commonwealth and European culture - a balance of freedom and order, a separation of public service from politics, conflict solving by debate and not by force, violence or insurrection, a tolerance of minorities, economic opportunity, fortitude in theatre, literature, film and sport, with achievements in science, medicine, social welfare and a unique quality of life.

Our culture has developed historically on the basis of our common experiences and memories, stories and traditions.

Australia has a unique political history of which we can be proud. Australia led the way with the secret ballot, the 8-hour day, votes for women, invalid, widow, old age and disability pensions, strong trade unions, the arbitrary system and the basic wage.

Our culture embodies the values of egalitarianism and mateship. It rejects excessive authority and believes in a fair go, admiration for the battler and a belief in the dignity of the individual.

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Currently, successive governments and the media, together with the publicly funded multicultural and immigration elites, have imposed a wholly different cultural vision for Australia - Multiculturalism.

This policy does not simply mean encouragement of greater tolerance of difference or the appreciation of ethnic foods or traditions. What we are experiencing now in Australia is a threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values.

Threats to our freedom of speech, the freedom of the individual overtaken by group rights, funding given on the basis of ethnicity are race rather than need and our people divided into separate ethnic groups which are funded to stay that way. We see no reason why migrant cultures should be maintained at the expense of our shared national culture.

Current education practices leave many Australians ignorant of the fact that we owe so much of our way of life to our distinctive national culture. The survival of any national culture relies on a common national memory that binds people together into a nation.

But the policy of multiculturalism attempts to discredit and destroy our shared story and impose upon us a different story. This will produce Australians whose feelings toward the pre 1965 Australia and her heroes will be those of contempt, guilt, indifference or ignorance.

“Every variety of culture in Australia today has a mother country where their particular culture can survive and develop. Our unique Australian culture and identity has nowhere else in the world in which to survive. Destroy it here and it’s gone, forever.”

Multicultural Policy operating through the power of the ethnic lobby is creating divisive ethnic politics as demonstrated through threats of block voting and branch stacking.

We see the power of the minority directly influencing the policies that affect the majority against the demonstrated will of the majority. Are we heading for an Australia where every issue will have to pass a minefield of ethnic and racial voting blocks? As the former Immigration Minister, Senator Bolkus, said on the 6/12/94.

‘We cannot cut and should not cut immigration because it would jeopardise our integration with Asia.” Do we need to change the ethnic/racial make up of Australia for trade? Trade comes and goes, but our identity, as a nation should not be traded away for money, international approval or to fulfil a bizarre social experiment.

70 % of our immigration program is from Asian & Middle Eastern countries. Consequently Australia will be over 27 % Asian & Middle Eastern within 20 years and as migrants congregate in our major cities, so the effect of this will be more concentrated there.

This will lead to the bizarre situation of largely Asian and Middle Eastern cities on our coast, which will be culturally and racially different from the traditional Australian nature of the rest of the country.

In a democracy, how dare our government force such changes on the Australian people, without their consent and against their often-polled opinion?

Policy Conclusions
1: To aim for population stability in Australia. The immigration intake will be restricted to zero net migration; that is, immigration numbers replace those numbers of persons permanently leaving Australia each year.

2: The program will be non-discriminatory unless immigration numbers are such that the program
will alter the ethnic and cultural make up of our country.

3: Migrants, with the exception of genuine refugees, will not be eligible for unemployment benefits
until after the first three years of residence.

4: Skilled immigration, comprising 20% of the program, will be directly related to labour market
needs in Australia and will only occur if;
A) No Australian can be trained for the job.
B) No Australian is available for the job.

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5: The Business Migration Program, comprising 20%, will continue under intense scrutiny.

6: Family reunion is a privilege and not a right. Family reunion will continue to be a part of the
immigration program, but will be restricted to dependant immediate family.

7: Change-of-status opportunities will be restricted and endless review processes and claims for
residence will be stopped.

8: Decentralisation as a proposal to send migrants to country centres are an unrealistic policy and
will not be envisaged.
9: Past governments have created a massive illegal immigration problem and funds will be
allocated to begin the enormous task of identifying present offenders and stopping
illegal immigration.

10: The health of Australians will not be put at risk by failure to properly health screen
immigrants.

11: Australia will continue to assist genuine refugees through providing temporary asylum
and appropriate foreign aid.

12: The government funded, institutionalised policy of multiculturalism will be abandoned.
Ethnic diversity as an integral part of the Australian community will not disappear
under a policy of integration, which shall be encouraged.
NOTE- Family reunion program -- basic English language is essential, however it is understood that young children will meet this condition during schooling.
Specifics of Category Changes and Numbers for a net Balanced Program:

The immigration Program currently consists predominantly of:
A) Family Reunion.
B) Skilled and business Migrants.
The Humanitarian program consists of:
A) Refugee.
B) Special Humanitarian.
C) Special Assistance Categories.
New Zealanders are currently not included in immigration numbers.

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The Immigration Program:

1: Family Reunion.
Family reunion historically usually accounts for about 60% of the program with the greatest numbers comprising spouses, fiancés, parents and children.

Within the ONE NATION policy, family reunion will be maintained at about 60%. The parent category from countries without an adequate transferable social security net will be discontinued, as these people have been an enormous drain on our social security services. The concessional family category, which includes non-immediate family members such as nieces and nephews, will also be discontinued.

2: Skilled and Business migrants:
Will comprise approximately 20% of the program and will be tightly controlled. The independent skilled category will be abandoned. Business migration will comprise the remainder of the program.

The Humanitarian Program:
A program of temporary refuge will replace the humanitarian program for those who meet the UNHCR definition of a refugee with repatriation when the situation resolves. The number of places for genuine refugees will remain at 12,000, which is not included in the zero net migration programs.
The special humanitarian and special assistance categories, which should never have been created in the first place, will be scrapped.

The total humanitarian program will be decreased whilst accommodating refugees at approximately the current level.
New Zealand:

The situation with New Zealand immigration has been one-sided for too long. A reciprocal arrangement whereby the numbers of Australians permanently leaving to live in New Zealand will equal the number of New Zealanders allowed to migrate to Australia each year.

Temporary Entry:
There are three general categories of temporary entry into Australia which allow entry visas of from three months to four years.
1) Temporary Resident program.
A) Skilled.
B) Business: - (I) Temporary business (visas up to three months).
- (ii) Self-sponsoring “executives” (visas up to four years).
C) Students
D) Visitors
Public confidence in our immigration program has never been lower. This is the result of present and past government policy failures and incompetence in the administration of the official migration program as well as lack of will and competence in the administration of the temporary entry program.

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Government forecasts estimate the numbers of short term, or temporary, arrivals will more than double. ONE NATION will ensure that the Temporary Entry Program is properly administrated and that all activities of migrants in the temporary entry category are tightly controlled, especially in employment areas.

Temporary Residents Program:
ONE NATION will allow persons to enter Australia on a temporary basis to meet specific objectives of benefit to Australia in the areas of skilled and business employment, social/ cultural and international relations.

No application for change of status will be allowed from within Australia except in exceptional circumstances. Such circumstances will only be accepted if the change of status is in the best interests of Australia.
Any person entering Australia for a period exceeding three months must participate in full health screening.

Social/ Cultural:
Temporary Visas will be granted to include such persons as entertainers, visiting academics, sports persons, exchange students and religious workers, etc.

International Relations:
Working holiday-makers comprise of 45% of this group. ONE NATION will continue to supply temporary visas for this purpose but will proceed with caution to ensure the labour market can accommodate these people. Reciprocal arrangements must exist.

A) Skilled.
All intending skilled and business temporary entrants will be subject to a good character TEST.

Temporary entry to Australia of skilled persons is essential to satisfy areas not supported from within Australia and to teach Australians the relevant skill. However, over the past decade, both major parties have caved in to pressure applied by multinational companies to relax regulations that in the past protected the interests of employees.

The government’s duty is to protect the best interests of Australians and this may necessitate standing up to the multinational conglomerates.

B) Business.
Temporary business visitors fall into two categories.
1] Temporary Business. (Visas up to three months)
The deregulation of the temporary business category has been a disaster for Australia. 280,000 temporary business visas were issued during the 96-97 financial year and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs have little knowledge of what work the visitors have been engaged in. A number have been found working for extended periods as door-to-door salespersons, in massage parlours and as factory process workers.

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ONE NATION will ensure that three month Business Visas are issued only from the country of origin and are for bona fide purposes and of benefit to Australia.
2] Self-sponsoring, “Executive” (Visas up to four years)
ONE NATION will also ensure that independent self-employed executive visas will be issued only from the country of origin and solely for bona fide business purposes.

That the temporary migrant is conducting the business or employed in the activities for which the visa was issued will be continuously checked. There will be no automatic renewal of four year visas, any subsequent extensions must be bona fide and in the best interests of Australia.

Student Program:
ONE NATION will continue to allow students to enter Australia to undertake full-time courses of study or training. However, such courses must be accredited and registered for overseas students. Since January 94, overseas visitors to Australia have been able to undertake ELICOS or other non-formal study for up to three months and this will continue.
ONE NATION is adamant that education fees from overseas students will not be used as basic funding for institutions due to lack of funding from the Australian government, as has been happening more in recent years. Consequently, visas will only be allocated to overseas students providing the numbers do not mean fewer places for Australian students.

Overseas students must have the pre-requisite studies and other entry requirements for any course. Teaching time will not be disproportionately devoted to overseas students.
As a result of the number of students from the Peoples’ Republic of China who overstayed and/or did not comply with student visa conditions in past years, the entry of these students shall continue to be restricted.

Change-of-status and extension principles will apply.
Visitors to Australia:
Tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian economy this last decade. The Sydney 2000 Olympics resulted in increased visitor numbers.

ONE NATION will ensure the integrity of our border entry requirements is maintained.
Unfortunately, the increasing numbers of illegals is sourced through our airports on visitors’ visas. A properly controlled visitor program will ensure tourists are welcome in Australia, but ONE NATION will ensure that the detection of illegals for deportation is properly funded and administrated.

CITIZENSHIP:
As a democracy, political authority in Australian society derives from the will of its citizens. It does not derive from ethnic and multicultural lobby groups or business and intellectual elites with divided loyalties. Therefore, the Australian Federal Government’s first duty is to the care and welfare of its citizens.

Australian benefits should not necessarily be extended to non-citizens who merely reside here and who use Australian society to obtain the maximum individual advantages for themselves. Within the ranks of citizens and non-citizens in Australia there are now large numbers who do not feel reciprocal obligations of duty to Australia. Organisations or individuals that deflect loyalty from Australia should be sidelined in debates on national issue.

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Much current “politically correct” philosophy gives only superficial respect for the concept of citizenship while at the same time, devaluing and undermining its importance. In the “new globalised world”, the concept of nation, and that of citizenship, is eroded.

ONE NATION believes that Australia should remain a sovereign nation, not merely a geographical area populated by “world citizens”.
ONE NATION wishes to see nationhood and citizenship re-established amongst the highest priorities of government. Hence, ONE NATION’S policy includes the following:
1. Five year permanent residence before being eligible for Citizenship. Time out of Australia must not exceed 18 Months.

2. Passing a written and verbal English test to be compulsory before Naturalisation.

3. Applicants must pass a test demonstrating a basic understanding of Australian institutions, history and environment. Schools will be obliged to teach such material to all students as part of their school curriculum.

4. The advantages of Citizenship will be strengthened, ie.
A) Only citizens can sponsor migrants.
B) Legal Aid will only be available to citizens.
C) Government employment will only be extended to citizens except where those skills are
unobtainable in Australia.
D) Children of illegal migrants will not automatically be granted Citizenship.

5. Non-citizens will be deported for criminal offences where they are subject to being gaoled. Australia will seek treaties with other countries for co-operation in deporting non-Australian citizens. They will be found, tried and sentenced within Australia and deported to their country of origin to serve their sentence.

Their assets in Australia will be sold to defray all expenses. If necessary, Australia will contribute to the cost of gaoling in their native country – in most cases this will be less expensive than keeping them in Australia.

6. With regard to Citizenship, we believe our pledge of commitment needs to become one of loyalty to Australia and its people above all other.

In conclusion, all citizens will be expected to have an overriding commitment to Australia and to accept the basic structures and principles of Australia. That is – the rule of law, tolerance, equality of opportunity, Parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, English as the national language and equality of the sexes and races.

If individuals internalise the above principles and love of country as part of their own sense of identity, we will re-establish a cohesive society in which, in times of threat, citizens will, if necessary, risk their lives and perhaps sacrifice them selves to protect their fellow Australians and our country.

Our responsibility and such patriotism were described in the World War I poem, “Flanders Fields”.
”Take up your quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies
Grow in Flanders Fields.”

ONE NATION will ensure that Australia will be a sovereign nation in its own terms with a robust democratic society. We will foster the re-establishment of a strong sense of citizenship and people proud of their Australian culture, identity and of their place in the world…

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