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.

 

29^th.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

 

 

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. (9^th 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:

• ·         The standard telephone service; &
• ·         payphones; &
• ·         prescribed carriage services; &
• ·         digital data services

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.

 

 

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:

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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

1. 1.        Smog                                30-40% reduction in tailpipe emissions
2. 2.        CO (Carbon monoxide)   50-60% reduction in tailpipe emissions
3. 3.        Air Toxics (benzine)        Potentially zero emissions
4. 4.        SO.2 Sulphur dioxide       Potentially zero emissions
5. 5.        CO.2 Carbon dioxide       15-20% reduction in tailpipe emissions

 

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:  

• ·         21 gallons of petrol
• ·         3 gallons of jet fuel

·         ·         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

• ·         Country             Coal           Gas            Nuclear
• ·         Australia (QLD)  4-10.00        -              -
• ·         France                 4.64           4.74           3.22
• ·         Russia                  4.63           3.52           2.69
• ·         Japan                    5.58           7.91           5.76
• ·         Korea                    3.44           4.25           3.07
• ·         Spain                    4.22           4.79           4.10
• ·         USA                    2.48           2.44           1.80
• ·         Canada                2.92           3.00           2.54

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. http://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

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.

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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: -

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

 

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 30^th 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.

 

 

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

• ·         Natural Resource Management
• ·         Innovation & Operating Environment
• ·         Industry development
• ·         Food
• ·         Product Integrity & Animal & Plant Health
• ·         Market Access & Biosecurity
• ·         Quarantine & Inspection
• ·         Rural Sciences
• ·         Economics

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.

 

To protect the industry from foreign competition there had once been an embargo on all imported sugar. This was replaced in 1989 by a tariff initially of $150 a tonne, which was progressively reduced to $55 a tonne, unless the sugar came from developing countries in which case the tariff was $37 a tonne. At those levels the tariff was already below Australia's obligations under the Uruguay round of international trade talks. The tariff was also significantly lower than the tariff in force in all other major sugar-producing countries.

Australian producers were already the only producers depending entirely on world prices, with all their competitors receiving government assistance of one sort or another. The Howard government, as part of its election policy issued in February 1996, promised not to reduce the tariff further. Once elected as usual promises are broken & the tariff

was abolished on 1 July 1997.

 

Many excuses were put forward to justify it, but those who benefited most were foreign confectionery & soft drink manufacturers. This transferred $26.7 million a year out of the pockets of sugar producers into those of foreign companies & investors who pay less than 2% tax on their Australian profits.

 

By mid-2000, Australian producers were receiving less for sugar they sold domestically than any other sugar producers in the world.

The prices received by growers according to "The AUSTRALIAN SUGAR DIGEST" showed Queenslander's were getting per tonne $180, Brazil $315, Indonesia $380, India, $403, Thailand $545, China $578, South Africa $593, UAS $632, EEC $1092,

 

EXAMPLE OF LABOR/LIBERAL GOVERNMENTS LEVEL PLAYING FIELD

Australian Cane Farmer               Indonesian Cane Farmer

wages 2 workers pa. $104,000.  wages 10 workers pa. $52,000.

20,000 litres of diesel  $ 16,000. 10,000 litres of diesel $ 1,000.

 (@ 80 cents per litre)                        (@ 10 cents per litre)

Fertiliser                      $ 12,000.      Fertiliser                 $ 6,000.

Herbicides                   $  6,000.  I.   Herbicides              $ 3,000.

Taxes to pay foreign aid  $  2,000.   Aust aid money      $ ?

Purchase of cane land pa.$ 25,000.  Purchase subsidies pa.   $ ?

Tariff protection              $ nil        Tariff protection p/ton $ 200

Total production costs     $                                                 $

price per tonne for sugar  $ 200                                          $ 400

 

Do the maths yourself, there is only one conclusion, our cane farmers in Queensland, after years of hard work & efficient contribution to the nation's wealth, are forced off their farms, & having to live off their children's incomes. Others are unable to pay their council rates, or afford books for their children's education.

 

Monday 26 August 02 the Howard government put the final nail in the coffin for cane growers, with an assistance package of $100 million, the snake bite was conditional on them selling their farms & retiring from the industry. They sold the industry out to globalism, which is the main cause of its problems. Our foreign owned banks, produce their own money, which they lend back to the government with interest, this has devalued our currency allowing them to buy out Australian manufacturing industry at half price. With much of the industry foreign owned & controlled the cane farmers receive little for his efforts, in fact the situation is the same as the destruction of the dairy industry. The foreign owned banks will eventually take over their land, when they are no longer able to pay back their ever-increasing loans.

 

The government as usual blames the efficiency of the industry, when those of us who have been involved in it know this is not so, & provided with a true level playing field it can compete. (refer to story of Tofts & the local manufacture of possible the worlds best & most efficient cane harvester, however the final chapter came this month June 03. when the current foreign owners announced its closure & transfer to Brazil.

 

Due to the government, against the constitution & will of the people committing us to treaties, trade agreements & deregulation they have destroyed Australian Industry.

They have given us GST & excise taxes that force up Australian produced fuel prices by 500%, then they suggest that industry should diversify into the production of ethanol. Ethanol is the base for gin, vodka, bourbon, rum & all liqueurs. The flavourings to produce these alcoholic drinks are cheap & already available. We would do better to have our own industrial chemists study & blend our own. If we produced Australian Scotch & other alcoholic drinks the profit would come here rather than to the foreign corporations who now own Bundy rum & just about everything else. (Excise & taxes on Australian produced alcoholic drinks is about 70%)

 

The unintelligent knee-jerk reaction of our current political leaders is to suggest using ethanol as a fuel additive, as long as they can rake off 42% in excise tax. You don't need a PhD in economics to know that ethanol is to expensive & valuable to use as a fuel additive, the wholesale price before tax is about 72 cents per litre, compared with petrol & gas at about 3 cents per litre. (Note the aromatics in petrol have serious health & environmental consequences, adding ethanol damages fuel systems & paintwork.)

 

ONE NATION is the only political party with policies that will ensure the future of the Australian Sugar Industries. Our policy is one of import replacement, to protect our vital industries, backed up by a fair & equitable tax & energy policies to ensure it is Australians who benefit from our natural resources. Withdrawal from treaties & trade agreements that harm our industries, return of the embargo on all imported sugar, & a tariff on imported sugar products, out of which an assistance package will be paid directly to the Australian cane farmer, in line with that of other sugar producing countries. Excise on bi-products from Australian sugar will be removed.

 

ETHANOL A COSTLY FUEL ADDITIVE: The Australian 8/12/03 reported a damming assessment of the scheme promoted by Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the CSIRO reports says the industry would require massive ongoing assistance resulting in a net loss to the economy of up to $504,000 for every job created.

It would amount to one of the biggest pork barrels in recent political history. The estimated 216 direct jobs created would be concentrated in National Party strong holds such as Mr Anderson’s own northern NSW seat of Gwydir & Maranoa in Queensland. The dominant ethanol producer Manildra has strong political connections through its chief, Dick Honan to Mr Howard.

To lift ethanol production from 55 million litres p.a. to 350 million litres by 2010 would require substantial & ongoing assistance, as well as hitting taxpayers it could cut gross domestic product by $103 million, whilst giving the government little carbon credits to trade on the fraudulent green futures markets.

This confirms our previous findings that ethanol is not an economical fuel additive; it is far more valuable as a base for the alcoholic drink  & industrial chemical industry. The truth is this charade is all part of the governments plan to destroy the sugar industry, only this week the final closure of Beenleigh Rum was confirmed, & the sugar mill at Nambour.

 

DEATH OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY

April 29^th 2004. Prime Minister John Howard announced today in Bundaberg, The Federal Government’s package to put the final nail in the coffin of the Industry.

The $444 million package includes payments of $100,000 to farmers to leave the industry, each farmer will also receive up to $25,000 each in assistance, with luck this will pay the interest on their loans & fuel bills that the government has forced on them. Another $40 million over two years will be available to farmers who undertake restructuring that includes diversifying their crops. This is a joke as cane is a grass & most cane growing areas are not suitable for growing other crops, that is if anyone can find a profitable cash crop that has not suffered from the government’s free trade policies.

Imports of food now total $12.5 million each day, so what future do our cane farmers have.

Many will be financially forced to accept the package to leave their land, under the current circumstances who would by a cane farm, the market will collapse, farmers will face repossession, as banks demand their money. Mysteriously the value of the dollar will collapse & the government’s foreign masters will step in & acquire cane lands at bargain basement prices, that’s globalism.

Governments still promote green energy programmes as an alternative, whilst blaming South American countries that are among Kyoto’s most vocal advocates that are burning down rain forests to clear land to grow cane so they can flood world markets with sugar or produce ethanol that is uneconomical & not acceptable as a vehicle fuel. The same Howard Government that makes out that it is handing the farmers a generous package, rips them off with the other hand by charging them ten times as much for fuel as it sells it to foreign competitors.

The media portrays a few farmers celebrating the Prime Ministers deal, but realistically the paltry few dollars he has handed them will soon be gone along with their future. 

With the federal elections close at hand farmers should be aware that One Nation is the only party that will save their industry & future.

 

TOBACCO INDUSTRY

Tobacco product use should not be encouraged due to health reasons, but as long as it is legal we feel that Australian tobacco growers should be supported. With deregulation the foreign tobacco companies, due to globalism are resorting to replacing Australian grown tobacco with imports. To correct this ONE NATION supports, excise taxes on imported tobacco & reducing them on the local grown product. We also support the Australian chop chop industry as it provides a cheaper cleaner product for those that have not yet kicked the habit.

 

Unlike other parties ONE NATION has not accepted any money from the tobacco industry. According to the AEC the coalition parties received, Liberals from: Philip Morris $187,760. BAT $25,000. WD & HO Wills $10,000.  National Party from: Philip Morris $55,000, BAT $10,000. Labor Party from: Philip Morris $94,000, BAT $61,000, WD & HO Wills $7500 (Note Philip Morris is part of a US Industrial corp. which includes KRAFT Foods with annual revenues of more than $50 billion. They were the sponsors of the Liberal party National Conference in Brisbane.) With this in mind, globalism, deregulation, & other moves by them to sell out the Australian farmer becomes clear.

 

QUEENSLAND WINE INDUSTRY

This industry is growing; the Granite Belt Wine District is a typical example. The Queensland wine growers & producers are mainly small family owned companies, globalism & the resulting taxes is really hurting them. Foreign owned multinationals due to our weak dollar have been able to buy many of Australia's major wine producers, allowing them to control the retail industry & shelf space in most retail outlets. Under the 1953 tax agreement foreign companies are not taxed here, However the small producer is now hit with 29% excise (equalisation tax) on top of which they must pay 10% GST, the total

reality is 41% tax. The other major cost is fuel, in the granite belt Autogas is 56 cpl & diesel around 75 cpl. Ironically with in a short distance is Queenslands major gas & oil fields, where autogas is produced for $120 per tonne 3 cpl, & the quality of the oil is so good its 75% diesel fuel as is produced for about $6 per barrel.

Oil prices are currently a Federal issue & ONE NATION has a policy to reduce them, however the Queensland State Government has the power to regulate domestic & autogas prices & we will pursue this to set a state wide maximum pump price of 15 cpl. Reduction in other fuel prices should follow, this would assist the wine industry.

At the Federal level we will empower a tax review to scrap the GST & replace it with the E-tax, eliminating all excise & GST on Australian produced wines & replacing it with a ONE PERCENT tax that all will pay. This will then put The Australian Wine Industry on an even playing field.

 

LIVE EXPORTS

One Nation questions the economic viability of this trade; we are also concerned about the cruelty of it just to satisfy barbaric Islamic cults. As a humane Christian country do we need to stoop to this level, there was a ship the MV Cormo Express with around 52,000 sheep on it stranded in the Gulf in horrific conditions because Saudi Arabia decided not to accept the shipment due to playing politics. It appears that the Australian taxpayer funds most of this business, as we no longer own any ships. We also oppose the export of our top-breeding cattle for short-term political correctness.

Rather than continue to be the stupid country we should become clever  & stop all live exports, all exports of animal products should be slaughted here under humane hygienic conditions, packed & preserved by refrigeration, salting or irradiation. We build some of the best high-speed shipping in the world these should be used to ship the processed products to these countries. This way we create jobs in Australia, due to the quality value added processed product, shipping volume & delivery time is reduced, our export income is increased & the cruelty ceases.

The final cost of the MV Cormo Express bungle, $10 million for the sheep & shipping, $1 million plus to bribe Eritrea to take them at our expense. A recent report estimates the total cost of the live export trade to Australia could be around $1.7 billion in lost GDP, around $280 in household income & around 12,000 jobs.

Ref: Globalisation, Demise of the Australian Nation, by Graham L. Strachan.

Kangaroo management by Jim Savage. The Live Export Trade: An Economic Dead End for Australia. By R. Nicholson. Australian Milk Producers’ Association Ltd. CDC ‘Questions on Food Irradiation’ ‘The Peaceful Atom’ uic.com.au

 

 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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.

 

One Nation proposes that development of our rural Industries can only come through value adding. The processing packaging & marketing of our rural products to the finished consumer level. This not only greatly enhances the value of the product, it’s shelf life & attractiveness to the consumer improves & export costs are reduced.

 

One Nation believes that value adding will restore jobs to rural communities, providing employment & opportunities for youth stopping the drift from towns to big cities.

 

One Nation will review live exports; with a belief that these animals should be slaughted in Australia in accordance with our quality control & health requirements, attractively packaged & shipped direct to world markets. There are less import barriers in most countries to finished products.

 

One Nation proposes the setting up of farmer’s co-operatives to process & market their products, preferably in country towns.  This way they get a fair share of the products, eliminating the rip off from multinationals.

 

One Nation will subsidise the Sugar Industry until such time that it is able to stand on its own feet, we do not believe in reducing our farmers to poverty levels in the pursuit of globalism.

 

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

One Nation believes that the only way to save the Australian Sugar Industry is for farmers to set up their own co-operatives. This not only includes growing & harvesting of cane, but ownership in the mills for crushing, factories for processing sugar products & by-products & the marketing of them. Research & development for new by-products & their economical production. Eg. CSR packaged sugar cubes sold in Australia are packaged in Singapore, this is an example of how large companies such as CSR exploit the Australian Cane Farmer. Another example is the large multinational soft drink manufacturer Coca Cola, this industry is possibly one of the largest consumers of sugar, their concern is to keep the price of sugar as low as possible to enhance there profits. Australian Sugar Co-operative could well produce their own soft drinks. The import of alcoholic drinks is a multi-billion dollar business, ethanol is the base of them the flavouring is cheap, a very profitable industry for cane farmers. Ethanol is also the base for many industrial alcohols this business is also worth millions of dollars, but at the moment the profits go to multinationals. Bagasse is mostly wasted especially in the governments green energy programs where it burnt off in inefficient co-generation plants; technology is now able to convert this into a very profitable stock feed. These are a few of the examples how the industry can profit.

 

THE FARM CRISIS, BIGGER FARMS, & THE MYTHS OF “COMPETITION” & EFFICIENCY

The following extracts come from a paper produced by the ‘Canadian National Farmers Union’. The same myth is also being perpetuated on Australian farmers by the honest men of our two party government.

The agri-food chain

To understand the economic position of the family farm, one must understand the farm in its context, within the agri-food chain.

At one end of the chain are fuel, oil, & gas companies. At the next link, fertilizer companies turn gas into nitrogen fertilizer. Next come chemical & seed companies, machinery companies, & banks. In the middle sits the family farm. Continuing down the chain we find grain companies & railways, packers & processors, retailers & restaurants.

Other than the farmer link, every link of the agri-food chain is dominated by between two & ten multi-billion-dollar transnationals & perhaps not coincidentally, every one of these links is characterised by large profits.

 

The Competition Myth

Competition & profit are inversely related; the higher the level of competition, the lower the level of profit. Every economics textbook will concur: At one end of the spectrum, a high degree of competition will reduce prices & profits while, at the other end of the spectrum, the complete lack of competition-monopoly-will to very high prices & profits. The CEOs of large corporations know: To maximize profits, minimize competition.

As the NFU detailed in ‘The farm Crises’ (February 2000), even as farmers, earn small returns & often endure large losses, the handful of corporations that dominate each of the other links in the agri-food chain earn large profits. These corporations enjoy large profits because they have consolidated to an extreme degree in order to avoid competition & its downward pressure on their prices. They have consolidated with little interference from government. Instead, Canada’s Competition Bureau has granted approval for merger after merger. As an example of its acquiescence to corporate giantism & monopolism the Competition Bureau allowed Canada’s two major LPG distributors-ICG & Superior to merge to form a virtual monopoly. The Competition Bureau also seems almost certain to approve Maple Leaf Foods’ bid for a near-monopoly on hog (pig) slaughter & processing in Saskatchewan & Manitoba. Such evidence indicates that the government encourages the reduction of competition in most sectors. The government’s policy prescription of aggressive competition is one that it recommends & applies almost exclusively to family farms.

Of all government policies, the ones that most affect farmers’ competition levels & the levels within the rest of the agri-food chain are the policies of global integration & so-called “free trade” As trade & investment agreements have torn down the economic barriers between nations, these agreements have thrust all the world’s farmers into a single, hyper-competitive market. At the same, time. Globalisation & trade agreements have spurred the dominant transnationals to merge into ever-larger, less numerous mega-corporations. Globalisation & trade agreements have increased competition levels for farmers-driving down farmers’ prices & profits-& the effects for the dominant agribusiness transnationals have been just the opposite.

Other policies similarly increase the level of competition for farmers & decrease competition among transnationals. For instance governments are dismantling farmers’ marketing boards. Until the latter-1990s, hog farmers in Saskatchewan & Manitoba sold their hogs through each province’s farmer- controlled marketing board. Farmers had the benefit of “single-desk selling”; packers that wanted to purchase hogs in that province had to buy from a single marketing board. Single-desk selling gave farmer’s price transparency, equal access to the market, equal prices for products of equal value, & market power when dealing with packers. Today, those marketing boards are gone & one company, Maple Leaf Foods own 80% of hog processing capacity in both Manitoba & Saskatchewan. The deregulation policies of the Manitoba & Saskatchewan governments, coupled with corporate consolidation, has transformed farmers’ competitive landscape from one defined by a single-desk seller to one defined by a single-desk buyer.

 

Two transnationals kill & pack the bulk of Canadian beef. Three transnationals make most of the cereal. Five retail most of the food. Farmers have just three major tractor manufacturers to choose from- half the number that existed 15 years ago. In Canada, each link of the agri-food chain is dominated by fewer than ten (and often as few as two) multi-billion-dollar transnationals. The dominant transnationals retain competition only as a fiction or as a prescription (to be administered to others- especially to farmers, workers, & small business.)

The Lie of overproduction

“ Low prices are caused by oversupply,” farmers are told. To the contrary, the data may indicate a looming shortage. Stocks/use ratios are the most commonly quoted measures of supply & demand. These ratios compare grain on hand at year-end (stocks) to the amount used that year (use).

This year’s world wheat stocks/use ratio will be 22.27%-the lowest level in 30 years. The world total grains stock/use ratio will be 16.87%-the second lowest level in 30 years.

There is little evidence of an oversupply so vast & burdensome that we would expect it to lead to the grinding farm income crises that is destroying farmers around the world.

 

Myth of to many Farmers

Today farmers make up about 3% of the Canadian workforce. This does not seem like an unreasonable portion of number to devote to food production; it leaves 97% of Canadians to build cars, run banks, play hockey, launch dot-com companies, & manage adult-video stores. At one time, the portion of the Canadian population working on farms was large. Moving most of those people to the cities allowed Canada to industrialise & may have increased the standard of living (less certain is wether this change has increased the quality of life). Given the tiny fraction of the population that farms today, however, it is unlikely that Canadians or the economy would reap any similar benefits by moving a portion of that small remaining population into the urban workforce.

 

Myth of Efficiency

There is no question about the efficiency of Canadian farmer, however the question is what happens beyond the farm gate. Numerous studies document how North American food travels thousands of kilometres to get to the plates of the consumers. Jets loaded with lobsters, chile peppers, tomatoes, & many other perishable foods daily cross-oceans & continents. Giant food retailers have centralized their distribution centres so that food is trucked back & forth needlessly. Throughout our food system, multiplying the consumption of expensive fuel. Would an efficient food system ship vegetables thousands of kilometres by ship, truck & plane when much of that food could be grown locally? Would an efficient system transport lamb from New Zealand to Toronto while it simultaneously bankrupts Ontario lamb farmers? A food system that ships wheat from Saskatoon to Montreal to make flour for bread & bagels & that makes bagels in Montreal & ships them back to Saskatoon: Could anyone call this system efficient? Wouldn’t an efficient system just fax the Montreal recipe to Saskatoon & make bagels there? In the face of increasing fuel costs is it efficiency to force the fraudulent Kyoto accords on farmers that will eventually force up farm cost & eventually drive them off the land?

Farmers in Canada & other developed countries now retain just one dollar from every ten they generate in sales—the transnationals take the other nine.

Conclusion; Inefficiency rhetoric is nothing more than a smokescreen; a propaganda tactic deployed against farm families, workers, & rural communities while corporate & government policies extract the vast wealth we create. When this extraction impoverishes those farms & rural areas, the corporations who purloined the wealth deceitly proclaim that the problem is farmer inefficiency, All the while, governments are pursuing policies—deregulation, market integration, destruction of marketing boards, seed patenting—that supercharge the corporations’ extractive capacities. And then governments join the corporate chorus of “farmer inefficiency”

 

There are other lies told by the powerful. These include blaming the farm income crises on oversupply or on foreign subsidies. These lies include the promises of salvation that governments cynically hold up: In the 1990s, salvation was to come from high-value crops & exotic livestock—elk, emus, ostriches, and llamas. Today they tell farmers that corporate hog barns & ethanol plants will save farms & communities. But no one dares utter the notion that the farm & rural crises is caused by a too-aggressive bleeding of rural wealth by the transnationals. No one dares suggest that farmers are making too little because others are taking too much.

The problem isn’t too little efficiency. The problem is too much theft.

 

If the Canadian situation seems similar to Australia its no accident, as only last week our benevolent Prime Minister handed our sugar cane farmers a pittance to encourage them to leave their farms & destroy the sugar industry, This same man is now proposing to destroy the Australian banana industry, has also destroyed the dairy, pig, fruit, & most of our other rural industries. The Australian two party system of government, is well funded by the transnationals, their honest men have even set up slush funds to ensure the destruction of any one that opposes their politics of globalisation.

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SENIORS & SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY STATEMENT #15

 SECURITY IN RETIREMENT

Australians of mature age should be classified as Seniors & 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 to their full pension, without assets test, & free health & medical benefits. They should also be encouraged, not hindered in developing any supplementary secure & independent source of income for their retirement.

 

POLICY #15: SENIORS & SOCIAL SECURITY

One Nation proposes that all Australian's over the age of 55, be classified as Seniors. They should not suffer demeaning categorization such as aged, pensioners etc.

All Seniors who have contributed through the Social Security Contribution levy, upon reaching retirement age, will be entitled to their full pension, without assets test.

 

One Nation will lower the retirement age option to 60 for all, as due to coalition government policies, many jobs have been lost. Many have been made redundant, & due to age have little or no chance of another full time job, lowering retirement age will save further hardship.

 

Free Health & Medical care for all Seniors during retirement.

 

One Nation will introduce a National Superannuation Fund, in competition to private funds, to which all will be encouraged to contribute too, as a secure & independent source of additional income in retirement, to supplement their Social Security Pension.

 

One Nation will encourage all commercial interests to provide discounts to Senior Card holders, including major retail groups, & fuel retail outlets.

 

Social Security Pensions to be indexed quarterly, with indexation based on a 'basket of goods' more representative of Seniors spending, including fuel.

 

Re-introduction of widows pension, especially war widows.

 

GST an unfair tax on the extra services that seniors require in advancing years of retirement. Tax reform will replace this & also protect savings for retirement.

 

Senior Card discount concessions to be provided on all public services. Eg: transport, phones, licences, registration fees, rates Passports, etc.

 

One Nation will cap the value of senior’s family home & investment properties at original purchase price, so as to protect them from spiralling inflation at a time when their incomes are restricted. This will save them from having to devest of their assets or being forced into the hands of the banks.

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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: SENIORS

The Australian Government currently categorizes Seniors as aged under the portfolios of Benefits & Payments (Social Security) & Health.

One Nation proposes that all Australian's over 55 years of age are classed as Senior Citizens, & not thrown into a demeaning political category of aged etc., & covered under the ageing portfolio.

In 1976, Australia had 1.3 million people over the age of 65 = 9% of the population. By 1998, this had increased to 12% or 2.2 million. By 2016 it will be 16% or 3.6 million.

Seniors during their working lives have contributed much to this country; many will go on doing so. But all should be entitled to financial security in their retirement.

This includes a retirement pension & health care. The following is a short history on the retirement pension.

 

THE PENSION SWINDLE

The Old Age Pension Bill of 1908, to the Aged Care Act 1997.

The Bill of 1908 is included in the powers under section 51 (XX111) of the Commonwealth Constitution & was non-contributory.

The old age pension was paid out of Consolidated Revenue.

There were a number of amendments over the years, but the most important occurred in 1945. In this new legislation (Act No's 39 & 40 of 1945) a contribution was to be collected on all incomes on a certain scale, also in 1945 PAYE was introduced which coincided with the introduction of the Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1945- 1947 Levy.

 

This procedure for collection was made easy by incarnating both into the Income Tax Return & this was indicated on the form, this continued until 1965 when Social Services Contribution was dropped from the return. But THE LEVY WAS NOT!

 

Money incomes were rising during the period up to 1950 & minor changes were made which allowed the decrease in the rate of progression on several occasions whilst the maximum rate of contribution was raised in July 1949. Enter Mr. Menzies with his package of tax reform that saw the contribution & tax collection merged.

This was brought about by Act # 52 of 1950. "The Menzies Government was thus able to impose taxation which reached as far down the income scale as did the social services contribution".

 

Was there accounting fiddles in the use of what was known as The National Welfare Fund Act #65 of 1954 which came into force on July 1, 1954 & appropriation would be made out of consolidated revenue (where all collections were now going) which would be equal to the amount paid out of The National Welfare Fund.

Thus it put to rest the idea that people were contributing to their age pension which was to be paid as a RIGHT without any means test. It was their money, saved as it were, for the future. This final amendment to the legislation meant the end of any ability to relate payments for pensions to amounts collected.

 

From 1910 pensions were paid out of taxation collected from the people.

 

From 1946 pensions were paid out of taxation PLUS a further tax.

 

The aged pension was self-funded by contributions & continues to this day. Actuaries have worked out what the pension entitlement was worth from governmental statistics.

Today it is worth over $1000.00 per fortnight ($26,000. pa.) It is a great insult to all seniors when politicians sprout forth in a repetitive manner that today's taxpayers are funding retirement pensions. Its a blatant lie, & to add insult to injury Keating introduced an assets test.

 

One Nation: Will lower the retirement age to 60 for all, as due to coalition government policies, many jobs have been lost. Many have been made redundant, & due to age have little or no chance of another full time job, to save further hardship we will lower the age of retirement.

 

One Nation: Will introduce a NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION SCHEME, to compete against the private funds to supplement the pension. The recent collapse of HIH Insurance exposes the inability of the regulatory authorities to act to prevent company mismanagement. This puts many small investors in super funds at risk; there are far too many funds,

contributors’ funds are eaten away by management fees & directors exurbanite salary packages & perks. Investor’s funds are subject to the vagaries of the market place, or incompetence of company directors, who are quick to bale out when problems occur. They usually leave with exurbanite financial packages leaving the investors to whistle for their meagre amount of hard earnt money.

Today our dollar is worth just three cents of the value it had in 1966 & prior to the Whitlam/Fraser era. Every worker has lost 97 cents of the real value of the dollar. His savings, life assurance & superannuation, the dollar buys one thirtieth of what it did back then. That is why Senior Australians are concerned about becoming very poor in the land of plenty.

The Liberal/labor governments are only concerned about their own retirement benefits, whilst our economy & our dollar continues to decline. Suddenly you find out the $500,000 superannuation payment you hoped to get, has devalued & shrunk so much with management fees, that it won't even buy the equivalent of a family car.

What happened to the governments promise to provide the pension health card to those on allocated pensions. It is not their fault that assets test have not been adjusted to keep up with inflation. The government however forced the GST on seniors, this affects them most as it applies to services at a time of life when they depend more on help. The GST in effect ensures that seniors are paying for the generous benefits that our politicians award themselves. One Nation stands for equality & will ensure that retirement benefits & pensions apply equally to all.

 

One Nation: Will introduce the Debit-tax to replace GST: Seniors individuals & families on welfare will be taxed at the rate of $1 per $100 on monies spent, therefore the current average pensioner on $200 per week would pay only $2 tax if they spent the whole of their entitlement. It would also mean:

No assets tests, no deeming, no heritage tax, no tax on savings, no tax on superannuation.

Seniors will no longer have to pay tax on their investments or their capital gains, only 1% of their bank account debits & there will no longer be any GST on their spending.

Federal Treasury figures reveal that 66% of senior retirees are on the pension which costs $14.4 billion pa. The Debit-tax would provide sufficient income to enable restoration of pensions, elimination of assets test, & free healthcare, The Debit-Tax would cover the cost of a national disaster fund, eliminating problems caused by the collapse of badly managed insurance companies (eg HIH).

 

ONE NATION PROPOSED RETIREMENT SCHEME

We propose returning to section 51 (xxiii) of the Commonwealth Constitution & “The Old Age Pension bill of 1908” & amendments. This will ensure a basic federal scheme that is fully funded over ones complete working life, providing an adequate income for all on retirement. The funds from the scheme would be available for investment into important national projects.

Eligibility for retirement will be reviewed, with age lowered to 60, as many are becoming redundant at earlier ages now. There will be no assets test for the basic pension. Tax-exempt superanuation either national or private will be available for the provision of a little extra during retirement. 

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 POLICY STATEMENT  #16: TRADE & TREATIES

ONE NATION will review all treaties & withdraw from those illegally signed, & of no benefit to us. We will ensure competition on a true level playing field with real consumer protection.

Globalisation means Australians giving up their country & we oppose it. Foreign aid will be reviewed, & provided in Australian made products & services to those in genuine need.

                  

POLICY  #16: INTERNATIONAL TREATIES & TRADE

One Nation will review all treaties & withdraw from those illegally signed, & of no benefit to Australia.

 

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, of which the actual Constitution is a part, states clearly that "The Commonwealth" means the people of Australia (CACA.3) This means that the Australian people are the Commonwealth of Australia. If Australian sovereignty was to be handed over to an international body or bodies, the only proper way to do it would be following an informed decision of the people to that effect at a referendum. If any other body, by any other procedure, undertook to hand over the nation's sovereignty to foreign interests, they would be committing treason, & the people would have every right to put them on trial for it. One Nation will ensure that only the people of Australia have the right to make treaties by referendum.

 

AID: One nation believes in equality in aid, charity begins at home; first in line for funding will be Australian aid & emergency services & a national disaster fund.  Surplus to foreign aid which will be reviewed & provided only in Australian made products & services, to those in genuine need.

 

One Nation opposes ‘Globalism’ it means Australians giving up their country for the profit of a few..

 

One Nation opposes Agenda 21, Kyoto accords, WTO, GATS, & treaties which will result in the destruction of national sovereignty, destruction of national culture, erosion of private property rights, transformation of the law, impose by fraud additional taxes on all Australian's & destroys our industry.

 

Trade: One Nation believes in fair trade not free trade, we will ensure that our primary industries remain fully protected from imports, that threaten their viability, strict quarantine requirements will be enforced to protect all agricultural, animal & marine products from imported pests & diseases. We believe in value adding to all products, this will be encouraged enforced & protected where necessary. Our industries & consumers will be protected from unfair competition, eg countries that pay slave labour rates, or produce goods not in accordance with our quality assurance, safety & other standards. In some cases adjustments may be necessary. For those areas that impose high tariffs on our goods, a reciprocal equivalent one will be imposed. Australia’s future & economy is dependent on having a viable manufacturing industry, to replace the flood of imports that is blowing out our national debt.

 

One Nation opposes predatory pricing, & will ensure truth in labelling with country of origin & manufacture to be clearly labelled on all products.

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BACKGROUND BRIEFING:

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES & TRADE

International Relations covers the following; Diplomatic & Consular Missions, East Timor, International Aid, International Organizations, Treaties & Trade.

WHAT IS A TREATY?  A treaty is an agreement between States (countries), which is binding at international law. A treaty may be called a "treaty", "convention", "protocol", "covenant" or "exchange of letters".

As a general statement, if a document is not concluded between countries it will not be a treaty. An agreement between an Australian State or Territory & a foreign Government will not, therefore be a treaty. Furthermore even if a document is agreed between two or more sovereign countries, it will not be a treaty unless those countries intend the document to be binding at international law. For example, all countries might vote in favour of a resolution of the UN General Assembly, but that resolution is not a treaty because those voting for the document do not intend that it should be binding at international law. Frequently "declarations", such as the Declaration on the Rights of the Child, are adopted by the General Assembly but those declarations are not treaties, as they are not intended to be binding by reason of their adoption. However, such declarations may be part of a long process that leads ultimately to the negotiations of a UN convention such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. They may also, in certain circumstances, assist in the interpretation of a treaty, as is the case with the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations & Co-operation among States (1970).

 

    WITHDRAWAL FROM A TREATY: A treaty usually includes provision for its termination or for the withdrawal of a party, as appropriate to the subject matter of the treaty.  Multilateral treaties typically provide that parties may withdraw on twelve months notice. Some bilateral treaties terminate automatically after a fixed period or when the projects they deal with are completed.  Notice periods for termination by one side will usually be the minimum required for an orderly winding up of activities under the treaty.

 

WHY ARE TREATIES NECESSARY?  Some treaties are necessary, eg. Those covering international rules on aviation, shipping etc. However what must be kept in mind is that the majority of the members of the UN today do not have a democratic form of government. The UN is financed & controlled by wealthy international banking & business.  Thus most treaties are politically motivated & are of no use to Australia.

To this end the Commonwealth Parliament set up a joint standing committee in 1966 to review treaties.

 

REVIEWING TREATIES- Treaties are tabled in Parliament at least 15 sitting days before the Government takes binding action. Treaty texts are tabled after treaties have been signed for, but before action is taken which would bind Australia under international law.

This arrangement applies to all treaty actions that amend a treaty if the amendments alter obligations with a legally binding impact on Australia, including termination or denunciation of a treaty.

 

REPORTING TO PARLIAMENT- The Committee reviews all proposed treaties actions once they have been tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament & reports to Parliament on whether Australia should take binding treaty action & on other related issues that have emerged during its review.

Since its inception the Committee has reviewed & reported on more than 180 treaty actions.

 

The above system is a vast improvement on that of the previous labor government, where treaties were kept from the public. Now people are aware of what is happening, the question remains are they aware of the implications of these treaties, & do they have enough input into them.

The commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, of which the actual Constitution is a part, states clearly that "The Commonwealth" means the people of Australia [CACAs.3]:

This means that the Australian people are The Commonwealth of Australia: not the government, Prime Minister, Governor General, or the Queen of England. If Australian sovereignty was to be handed over to an international body or bodies, the only proper way to do it would be following an informed decision of the people to that effect at a Referendum. If any other body, by any other procedure, undertook to hand over the nation's sovereignty to foreign interests, they would be committing treason, & the people would have every right to put them on trial for it.

Under the coalition governments treaty making has become the formal responsibility of the executive, & the Parliament rather than the people.

ONE NATION will return this to the people in the form of referendum, withdrawing from any treaty that is not been approved in this way, & charge those responsible for negotiating treaties harmful to Australia unlawfully with treason.

 

TREATY EXAMPLES

The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (signed 1983) purports to abolish discrimination against women in all aspects of life. What it really does is implement feminist ideology globally. It is based on the notion that the cultural role adopted by women over the past 10,000 years was imposed on them by men for the benefit of men; that the only differences between men & women are the result of social conditioning, not biology. Accordingly this treaty requires Australia [Article 5] "to modify the social & cultural patterns of conduct of men & women" [i.e. behaviour modification]. It requires the government to "erase the traditional concept of the roles of men & women at all levels & in all forms of education...by the revision of textbooks...& teaching methods." There is the usual UN committee of "experts" to monitor compliance with the treaty

In the preamble to the Women's Convention the Australian government committed itself to 'general & complete disarmament'. That included civilian disarmament at national level.  The civilian disarmament legislation was prepared well in advance of the Port Arthur massacre.

Now it is an offence for people in NSW to even carry a knife without good reason, & self-defence is not a good reason. There is to be no armed resistance to globalism at national level.

 

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (signed 1991) created children's rights, including against parents. The treaty requires that the education of children now must include global education, multiculturalism, feminism, & environmentalism, & requires the setting up of a national system of day-care. Article 43 sets up a Committee of 'experts' to monitor the implementation of the treaty.

Parent still have rights with regards to their children, "except if it is contrary to the child's best interests". And who will determine what’s in the child's best interests? Not the parents. A bureaucracy ultimately answerable to the UN will. The Convention also says the child "needs...appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth". How can that be reconciled with abortion on demand? Obviously it can't. Some rights exist long enough to get governments to sign the treaty, then the UN will decide which rights to acknowledge.

 

Treaties designed to regulate energy & property under the pretence of protecting the environment.

 

The World Heritage Convention of 1972 granted special powers to UN agency UNESCO to designate selected treasures in various countries as World Heritage sites & develop regulations & policies concerning their use.

 

The Framework Convention on Global Climate Change was signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Under it the economically developed countries to take "voluntary actions' to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (principally carbon dioxide) to their 1999 levels. The Kyoto Protocol, signed in Kyoto, Japan, during 1998 turned the voluntary goals into

"Legally binding commitments."

Of all the gases harmful to man carbon dioxide is not one of them, over 19,000 scientists have come forward to say global warming & greenhouse gas emissions are fraudulent. However the futures market is trading carbon at between $10-200 per tonne & charging up to 45% brokerage fees. Although the treaty has not been ratified governments at all levels & councils in Australia have been implementing it. It will cost

Australians $billions & drive what little industry that is left offshore.

 

The soon to be implemented Treaty on Biological Diversity (signed 1993) will restrict what people can do on their own land & in their own back yards; under Article 8 a system of protected areas will be declared, which will then be managed by the government on behalf of the UN to protect 'biological diversity'; there will also be land use controls in "areas adjacent to protected areas" [Art.8 (e)] which means anything within cooee of a water course. Even petrol-driven lawnmowers & backyard BBQs will be forbidden.

 

GLOBAL 'FREE' TRADE

The aim of globalisation is to do away with independent national economies, & to integrate them into a single global economy. Former independent nations with economic policies designed to protect their producers & build up their industries, have to abandon those policies & become interdependent participants in the global economy. All must then produce primarily for export & import the things needed for local consumption. (Note ONE NATION opposes this; our policy is one of import replacement)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the UN body to which national governments have to cede their economic sovereignty. It is designed to enslave most nations & includes many nasty schemes such as DEBT FOR EQUITY, GATS, (The general Agreement on Trades & Services).

GATS covers economic activity other than in manufactured goods, raw materials, or farm products. It is one of 15 Uruguay Round agreements enforced by the WTO. GATS have been responsible for the globalisation of the banking, insurance, & data management industries. Future GATS agreements will include privatisation of education, public health, & other services associated with the public sector.

 

The WTO is yet another of the 'institutions of global governance’, which, like the International Criminal Court, are transferring political power out of national hands into global hands. Section 51(i) of the Australian Constitution gives the federal government power to make laws with respect to "Trade & commerce with other countries..." If the WTO ruling overrides those laws, the Australian government has clearly ceded sovereignty.

All these treaties attack national sovereignty, freedom & democracy, & private property. Every one involves setting up a new global bureaucracy that would have some kind of control over Australian citizens, families, schools, businesses, & the use of natural resources, energy, & land. The reaction of some people is that they are incompatible with 'capitalism'. But they are being supported by the top monopoly capitalists & the NGOs pushing the agendas are liberally funded by the tax-exempt Rockefeller foundation.

 

AGENDA 21

The mother of all the environmental treaties is a document called Agenda 21 the socialist agenda for the twenty-first century. Agenda 21 was the underlying conference document at the UN Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 (Earth Summit), & commitment to it was reaffirmed in the Millennium Declaration.

Agenda 21 will change the way people live, what they eat, & how they learn & communicate, all in the cause of saving the planet.

The key word of Agenda 21 is 'sustainable': 'sustainable development', 'sustainable agriculture' & 'sustainable communities'. Under the excuse of 'preserving resources for future generations', present consumption will be limited, including water & electricity use; the private home & the private ownership of motor vehicles are to be abolished, people relocated in high rise buildings in 'sustainable communities' & forced to use public transport.

As family farmers are driven off their farms by oppressive land use controls & other bureaucratic harassment, the land is to be resumed by government & returned to wilderness. The aim then is for 'islands of human habitat in a sea of wilderness'.

Human access to that wilderness will then be restricted. Humans are to be subordinated to the environment.

 

Agenda 21 includes radical population reduction & control programmes, oppressive lifestyle regulations, & the imposition an earth-centred religion in place of existing religions that are to be undermined & destroyed. A massive education programme is being planned to persuade future generations. once it has been implemented, the UN will be managing & monitoring the entire world, including its lands & people.

It will also have the power to redistribute resources from developed countries to the Third World, & control the wealth produced thereafter to maintain the balance.

 

SCOPE OF AGENDA 21

Almost no aspect of human existence is left untouched by Agenda 21, By signing it, national governments have handed over to the United Nations power to coordinate & control; patterns of human consumption; where & how people live; the planning of all future development; the composition of the atmosphere; the planning & management of land use; control of the utilization of forests; control of the development in mountain areas; control of types & methods of agriculture; control of areas set aside to protect biological diversity; the management of genetic engineering; control of the use of oceans; the management & use of water, worldwide; the management of wastes including toxic chemicals, hazardous wastes, solid wastes; energy; the promotion of the role of women, aboriginals, & children & youth in 'sustainable development' & the list goes on.

 

PHONY ‘TREATIES’

Political, legal & cultural sovereignty are being handed over by signing various multilateral treaties & agreements at the United Nations, by which the government undertakes to implement UN social programmes within Australia, & renders itself & the Australian people subject to oversight by UN agencies. Globalists deny this represents a loss of national sovereignty. In an address on 4^th September 1995 Senator Gareth Evans said “individual countries enter into treaties of their own fee will…Governments negotiate treaties among themselves… Indeed, becoming party to a treaty is an exercise & an affirmation of a country’s sovereignty…” There are major problems with that statement: (1) the UN is not a government, so that signing a treaty at the UN is not ‘negotiating a treaty with another government’. (2) Signing a treaty by which the Australian governments binds itself to implement UN programmes, & renders itself & the Australian people subject to oversight by UN agencies, is not a “reaffirmation of sovereignty’, it is a surrender of sovereignty by any recognised meaning of the words, & (3) such an act does not become a ‘reaffirmation of sovereignty’ because a government does it willingly. The test is: can it refuse to enter into a treaty, or pull out of a treaty, without fear of reprisals?

It should also be pointed out that the Australian government is not a sovereign government to begin with. It is a government with limited powers given to it under a Constitution. Section 3 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, of which that Constitution is a part, makes the people of the various states the sovereign in Australia. The only sovereignty the Australian government can give away is the sovereignty of the Australian people. Giving away the people’s sovereignty without they’re in formed consent at a referendum is an act of treason. Furthermore, the Constitution gives the Australian government power to make laws for the peace order & good government of Australia. Engineering the handover of Australian sovereignty because somebody decides it’s time to globalise the world. Does not fit that description.

 

RESULTS OF TREATIES

The destruction of national sovereignty: UN inspectors have been in Australia threatening to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine; UN inspectors oppose Australia enacting mandatory sentencing laws, & question aboriginal policies.

 

The destruction of national culture through the forced immigration scheme known as "multiculturism", which discriminates against migrants of British background in favour of Asians. It means we have become the dumping ground for UN trash.

 

The erosion of private property rights: farmers are having to attend seminars to discuss methods of "sustainable agriculture"; farmers are having to pay for rain that falls out of the sky into their own tanks & dams because the UN says they have to; farmers are being prevented from clearing their land because a UN Climate Control Treaty says it causes global warming; farmers will be forbidden to use certain parts of their properties because a UN Biodiversity Treaty says it might disturb the habitat of endangered species.

 

The transformation of the law from something based on protection of individual rights, into something that enforces government policy; judges have invented the notion that the law 'evolves', which means the law is at any time whatever it needs to be to enable the government to win.

 

Increasing social control; Australia's gun buyback scheme; legislation which authorizes the Australian military to shoot Australian citizens.

 

The transformation of education from something that teaches the 3 Rs, into something more concerned with changing children’s thoughts & attitudes--socialisation. It's called Outcome Based Education, & it is endorsed by another UN agency called UNESCO.

 

Increasing attacks on religion, especially Christianity, accusing it of discriminating'; massacres of Christians in many parts of the world to which the UN turns a blind eye.

 

FOREIGN AID

Australia provided $2.133 billion in foreign aid in 2004-05, including $49.3 million to Communist China to help it reduce poverty & achieve sustainable development. By mid-2000 Australia's net foreign debt had reached $255 billion, heading towards 50% of GDP. In October 2000 Australia's gross foreign liabilities were approaching $700 billion, while gross foreign debt was $400 billion. This is far beyond what the economy can afford, but it gets worse.

The Aid budget summary 2004-05 Australia provided $2.133 billion, list of recipients as follows:

AID in $millions.

Papua New Guinea: $435.6  Vanuatu: $30.9  Samoa: $18.4 ion; Tonga: $12.0  Kiribati: $11.9  Indonesia: $150.6  East Timor: $39.9 Vietnam: $73.7  Philippines: $62.2  Communist China: $49.3, Cambodia, $41.4  Thailand: $10.6  Laos $18.4

 Bangladesh: $28.7  India: $17.2  Sri Lanka: $23.0   Regional Pacific  $69.7 Regional East Asia $37.1 Middle east & Central Asia   $52.9  Total OAD $2,133.1 million.

This does not include cost of sending troops to fight in UN wars & the costs involved in processing the flood of aliens

The gross foreign debt is now $700 billion;

Australian Farmers -$? This is why there is no money for hospitals & medical services.

How long will Australians allow themselves to financially bleed to death?

 

One Nation proposes that aid only be provided when the foreign debt is in credit, on a need only basis. Aid provided will be in Australian produced products only.

Rather than just foreign aid, we suggest equality in charity & it starts at home. AID will encompass all in need of AID, starting first at home with aid, emergency services & a national disaster fund.

Foreign aid to be provided from surpluses on a need only basis.

 

The real story of how our aid money is wasted can be found in the "Lords of Poverty" by Graham Hancock. Quote: "To continue with the charade seems to me to be absurd. Garnered & justified in the name of the destitute & the vulnerable, aid's main function in the past half-century ha been to create & then entrench a powerful new class of rich & privileged people. In that notorious club of parasites & hangers-on made up of the United Nations, the World Bank & the Bilateral agencies, it is aid- & nothing else-that provided hundreds of thousands of 'jobs for the boys' & that has permitted record-breaking standards to be set in self-serving behaviour, arrogance, paternalism, moral cowdice & mendacity. At the same time, in the developing countries, aid has perpetuated the rule of incompetent & venal men whose leadership would otherwise be utterly non-viable; it has allowed governments characterised by historic ignorance - & in some cases facilitated – the most consistent & grievous abuses of human rights that have occurred anywhere in the world since the dark ages".

 

UNITED NATIONS

How many people realize that this world body is an empire for moral, spiritual, economic & national destruction to many people & many nations throughout the world. It is difficult to understand how in our moral conscience we can support the U.N. Empire, the most godless & evil that has ever existed.

The U.N. came into existence at the end of WW11 to replace the failed League of Nations. Three important events in the establishment of the U.N. were the Dumbarton Oaks, the Yalta, & the San Francisco Conference. At each of these conferences Alger Hiss attended & served in an influential capacity. Hiss & his cronies were responsible for shaping most of the U.N. policies; he was later exposed as one of the most dangerous secret communist agents in the U.S.A.

 

With this well orchestrated communist-socialist beginning, one can understand how specialized agencies eg; United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization known, as U.N.E.S.C.O. became the most important & dangerous, & the Fabian Society leader Julian Huxley became the Director-general. It is the UN's greatest propaganda piece & at the same time the staunchest apologist of the communist system.

U.N.E.S.C.O. is dedicated to the "One World Society" & is a step towards World Government; the objective is to educate the children basically from the cradle in Fabian-Socialism, eliminating all Christian teaching & morality, destroying the family influence. The effect of this on the Australian education system is already apparent.

What use is the U.N.? & what has it done for Australia?

Previous socialist governments have imposed UN/UNESCO policies that ignore our constitution & offend our way of life, denying us the justice of common law. Against the will of the people they sign UN treaties, & conventions, many of which we are well aware of, that have taken away our sovereignty, thrusting globalisation on us, destroying our manufacturing & rural industry, taken control of our banks, & given us the GST to ensure we pay our escalating debt.

 

The U.N. financial organization such as the IMF, World Bank, WWF, WTO etc are owned & controlled by the worlds two major financial groups.

They ensure the poverty of most countries, by lending them money at interest rates that they can never repay, in return they take control of their assets in debt for equity deals through U.N. organizations such as World Heritage & World Wildlife Fund etc.

 

On the world scene what has the U.N. achieved, take Africa as an example, they eliminated colonial peace & prosperity, replacing it with dictatorial governments, that have produced only war & poverty. Eg: Rhodesia, The Congo, etc, & many other places in the world.

The U.N. has been responsible for most of the troubles & minor wars since WW11; Major wars have only been averted thanks to the mutual nuclear threat of the major powers.

 

The greed of the U.N. is never satisfied; the W.T.O. is about to take over all our trade & services. The flawed Kyoto accords, will saddle what little industry we still have with carbon taxes that are currently being traded on the world futures market for between $10-200 per tonne. Already many of our utilities are involved in this scam, that will add millions to your power bills, & has already caused financial losses & destruction of many large organizations, including loss of investments of the people through super funds etc. eg: ENRON, AMP, etc.

 

With this background don't rely on the U.N. to solve any of the problems in the world, Iraq they see it as an opportunity to raise the price of oil.

 

For the peace & prosperity of Australia & the rest of the free world, we need to return to our own sovereignty & rid ourselves of all harmful U.N. treaties, & the gravy train that they enjoy at our expense.

 

WARNING TO THE COALITION POLITICAL PARTIES

One Nation will not recognise any treaties or trade agreements that are signed in breech of The Australian Constitution, that have clearly ceded sovereignty & are harmful to Australia. We will withdraw from them & charge those responsible with treason.

Ref: Globalisation "Demise of the Australian Nation" & “22 Steps to Global Tyranny” by   Graham Strachan. "The Hellmakers" by John Grover.

 "Decent into Poverty" by Des Griffen.  "Lords of Poverty" Graham Hancock.

 “Red Over Black” by Geoff McDonald

 

 

 

CONSUMER PROTECTION

The ACCC has failed dismally in recent times, due either to being out of touch with the real world or to political direction. We will carefully review the operations of this department & others involved in consumer protection, & if necessary make appropriate changes to ensure there functions are carried out in the interests of all Australian's.

Protection of smaller competitors from market domination & predatory pricing by large retailers.

 

The National Competition Policy has been responsible for the wholesale privatisation of public utilities like electricity, gas, airports, railways, telecommunications, government banks, government insurance offices, & orderly marketing boards for eggs, sugar & dairying. Many other government bodies have been corporatised or required to operate on a pay-for-service basis. Privatised electricity companies have cut staff & maintenance & run down their infrastructure. Privatised insurance companies have dismally failed & like the rest, the industry is in real problems. The only answer is to return to   government insurance offices at federal & state levels. Deregulated agricultural industries have seen farmers forced to compete by boosting production allowing powerful supermarket chains to slash the price to farmers.

 

Free trade policies have seen the slashing of tariffs, the emasculation of ant-dumping laws, the loss of government preferential contracting to Australian industries, & the weakening of Australia's quarantine regulations. Many manufacturing companies have moved offshore, been bought by foreign based multinationals or simply closed down. It is one thing to remove protection to & assistance for extremely inefficient industries; it is quite another to refuse to have an industry policy to encourage new, competitive replacement industries to provide jobs & incomes to workers & families.

 

The Prices Surveillance Commission has failed to control price exploitation, especially in the fuel industry where prices are 500% higher than they should be.

 

COMPETITION POLICY

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission was formed on 6 November 1995 by the merger of the Trade Practices Commission & the Prices Surveillance Authority.

Its formation was an important step in the implementation of the national competition policy reform program agreed by the Council of Australian Governments.

An independent statutory authority, the Commission administers the Trade Practices Act 1974 & the Prices Surveillance Act 1983 & has additional responsibilities under other legislation. Under the national competition policy reform program the Trade Practices Act has been amended so that, with State/Territory application legislation, its

prohibitions of anti-competitive conduct apply to virtually all business in Australia. In broad terms, the Act covers anti-competitive & unfair marketing practices, mergers or acquisitions of companies, product safety/liability, & third party access to facilities of national significance. The Commission is the only national agency dealing generally with competition matters & the only agency with responsibility for enforcing of the Trade Practices Act & the associated State/Territory application legislation.

The Commission's consumer protection work complements that of State & Territory consumer affairs agencies, which administer the mirror legislation of their jurisdictions, & the Consumer Affairs Division of treasury.

 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT

The objective of the Trade Practices Act, as set out in the legislation, is to enhance the welfare of Australians through the promotion of Competition & fair-trading & provision for consumer protection.

The major parts of the Act are:

Part 111A - third party access to nationally significant essential facilities.

Part 1V - anti-competitive practices.

Part 1VA - Unconscionable conduct.

Part 1VB - Industry codes.

Part V - unfair practices; product safety & information; country of origin claims; conditions & warranties; actions against manufacturers/importers.

Part VA - product liability.

Part VB - price exploitation in relation to the GST.

Part V11 - authorisation & notification.

Part X - international liner cargo shipping.

Part X1B - a telecommunications-specific regime dealing with anti-competitive conduct.

Part X1C - a telecommunications-specific regime for regulated access to carriage services.

PRICES SURVEILLANCE ACT

Under the Prices Surveillance Act the Commission has three pricing functions:

to vet the proposed price rises of any business organization placed under prices surveillance;

to hold inquiries into pricing practices & related matters & to report the findings to the responsible Commonwealth Minister; & to monitor prices, costs & profits of an industry or business & to report the results to the minister.

 

Wk20/2001 The need for overhaul of ACCC & associated regulatory bodies is born out by the HIH Insurance debacle, The fact that this could happen is proof of their in-effectiveness. The dual role of HIH directors with the Auditors (Arthur Anderson & Price Waterhouse) points to a need for investigation & responsibilities of Auditors.

The fact that around $800,000 was contributed by the companies in question to Liberal party funds, may have something to do with the governments reluctance to act & have a full public enquiry.

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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT #17 TRANSPORT

To actively promote & encourage the planning & development of more efficient transport systems, including improved roads, national upgrading of highways & traffic rules to international standards.

Australian shipping lines, suburban & country electric railways, standard national rail gauge. Reduction of fuel prices, encouragement of use of environmentally friendly Autogas & Australian owned aviation (Airlines).

Sensible national speed limits, provision of incentives rather than penalties to encourage road safety, & work toward removing tolls.

 

POLICY # 17: TRANSPORT

One Nation will promote & encourage the planning & development of Efficient, safe, transport systems.

Improved roads, & toll free main & national highways, especially 6 lane freeways, & bridges. Continental east/west road links eg: Winton via Bullia to Kimberly’s & Bourke to Karratha, funded by fuel & Debit-tax.

 

Standardisation of transport systems with adoption of standard rail gauge in all states, & the Melbourne-Darwin via NSW & Queensland rail link.

 

Road rules to be upgraded to international standards, including sensible speed limits on all National Highways.

Transport owner operators to receive fair freight rates, working hours, & lower operating costs.

 

We will re-regulate fuel prices & remove all excise tax on Australian produced liquid fuels. (refer to energy policy for details)

Aviation air service costs have risen in recent times, & have & are contributing to the demise of the aviation industry. We will make all efforts to reduce these & cut red tape that restricts our air services. We oppose the sale of our airports to private mainly foreign interests & we will work to reverse this.

 

We will encourage Australian owned aviation industry.

 

We encourage greater efficiency of our ports & Australian ownership of them.

 

We support an Australian owned & operated Maritime fleet.

 

We oppose the corporisation & sale of our national & state railways, as they could go to foreign companies. Although efficiency will improve & direct jobs are secure; others could be lost, along with skills, if locomotives & rolling stock are imported. Profits could also be repatriated overseas under current tax arrangements.

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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: TRANSPORT

Australia is heavily reliant on transport due to its large area & distances between major cities & towns. The Federal Government's involvement in transport covers:

• ·         Airports
• ·         Australian Transport Council (ATC)
• ·         Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
• ·         Aviation
• ·         Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE)
• ·         Department of Transport & Regional Services
• ·         Marine & Shipping
• ·         Rail
• ·         Regional Australia Summit
• ·         Road
• ·         Australian Road Rules
• ·         Commonwealth Road funding Since 1990
• ·         Diesel Fuel Rebate Scheme
• ·         Fuel Consumption Guide 1986-98
• ·         Land Transport
• ·         National Road Rules, Vehicle Standards, Driving Hours.
• ·         National Road Transport Commission (NRTC)
• ·         Pacific Highway Upgrade
• ·         Petrol, Diesel, LPG & Oil; Price & Excise (refer #15 Energy)
• ·         Roads to Recovery Programme
• ·         Vehicle Transport Homepage
• ·         Transport of Dangerous Goods

The question is how effective are all these departments, how much is wasted on them & how much finds it way to roads etc?

The convenience of using a car will never be surpassed by public transport, the hypocrites in government, who never use it themselves, should admit that only a minority of people need public transport.

Instead of wasting vast sums on uneconomical public transport schemes, maybe it would be better to take a different political approach & channel these into building better roads. Reduce fuel prices & motoring costs to enable retired seniors & those on low incomes to run their vehicles, thus reducing the demand for public transport.

Coalition governments in their desperate embrace of globalism, have sold off the ANL, giving foreign shipping companies $10 billion per year for our freight. They have not heeded the lessons from WW1 & WW11 when our vulnerability was exposed due to reliance on foreign shipping, this lead to the formation of the Australian Shipping Board (ASB) which in 1957 became ANL & for the next 41 years, until it was sold off in 1998, transported freight for Australian industry. Furthermore, it did so very profitably.

Australia leads the world in high-speed shipping in the development of high-speed freight & passenger catamarans. Ocean freight catamarans are 1100 tonne vessels that could make the Singapore trip in 53 hours at an average rate of 36 knots. Currently the 350 tonnes of fuel required for the trip restricts their payload & speed, however with atom power eventually replacing diesel power in shipping, speeds & payloads will

increase, without the necessity to refuel during the life of the vessel.

Mag-lev Rail Systems offer similar possibilities for inland freight.

 

On 31 January 2002 the Commonwealth, NSW & Victorian Governments announced that National Rail Corp. Ltd (NRC) & Freight Corp would be sold to National Rail Consortium P/L for a total transaction value of $1.172 billion. National Rail Consortium is jointly owned by Toll Holdings Ltd. & Lang Corporation Ltd. (now Patrick Corp Ltd), two publicly listed Australian Transport Companies with multinational connections.

 

THE MISSING LINK, MELBOURNE-DARWIN, VIA QUEENSLAND RAILWAY

This ambitious rail project supported by One Nation involves a 4500km link between Melbourne & Darwin via inland Queensland with spurs to major ports.

Hundreds of kilometres of standard track will be laid in Queensland, with sections of the state’s narrow gauge light rail system to be widened

The Australian inland Rail Express will run on existing standard gauge through Victoria to the NSW town of Boggabilla, just south of the Queensland border. Only the Macintyre River separates Boggabilla from Carrington a tiny spot on the Queensland Rail link between Inglewood & Goondiwindi.

 Construction of this bridge over the Macintyre should now be completed. From Carrington the express will run on widened QR track to Inglewood, where it will be linked to Millmerran by a new line running to Charlton, just west of Toowoomba. New track will be laid between Wandoan & Hughenden & west from Mount Isa to Tennant Creek, were the express would link with the Alice Springs Darwin Line.

This will provide a corridor that cuts through the productive heartland of Victoria, NSW & Queensland

Total cost of the scheme is about $10 billion of which the $350 million funding needed to upgrade track in Victoria & NSW & build the Boggabilla-Carrington link has been arranged, & assessment of a project to include spurs to the ports of Townsville & Gladstone & from Toowoomba to Brisbane

Three trains a day could be running between Melbourne & Darwin & then with high speed ferries products could be in key Asian ports in another day or two. This rail project passes through some of Australia’s most productive agriculture areas & should greatly increase the return to Australia’s producers, which in turn ensure the viability of the project. It also passes through areas of great mineral wealth in Queensland & the Northern Territory assuring it of increased revenue in both directions.

 

There would be some initial competition with the estimated 2000 trucks that daily use our highways between Melbourne & Brisbane, however they will eventually be profitably employed feeding the various freight yards along the rail link from other areas. Fuel costs play a large factor in long distance rail & road transport such as we are faced with in Australia, One Nation proposes an energy policy to take care of this as we propose to remove OPEC pricing & excise taxes on all liquid fuels produced & sold in Australia.

 

One Nation believes in fair trade, not free trade, so we will ensure that this proposed rail system is used to the benefit of Australian producers, manufacturers & exporters, strict quarantine procedures will be in place to prevent any products coming into our country that could harm our rural industries.

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ONE NATION POLICY STATEMENT:#18 WATER

Water is the only resource that Australia lacks; therefore it is essential to conserve this valuable commodity.

We propose an integrated catchment management plan to be developed & implemented Australia-wide, to ensure adequate storage & supply of water & prevent its degradation.

Water management practices to eliminate salination. The discharge of sewerage to bay or ocean outlets, to be phased out, & the reuse of treated grey water & wherever possible the piping of it inland for irrigation & improving flow of river systems.

We do not believe in the commercialisation of a God given resource for the exploitation of Australians & for the profit of a few.

 

POLICY: #18 WATER

Water: One nation believes that water is so important that it should have its own portfolio. As the world's driest continent (after Antarica), Australia must use its limited water resources wisely. The main problem is more one of unequal distribution & storage rather than shortage.

We propose water management practices to provide adequate storage, eliminate salination & the discharge of sewerage to bay or ocean outlets. Reuse of suitably treated waste grey water, & wherever possible the piping of it inland for irrigation & improving the flow of inland river systems.

 

We do not believe in the commercialisation of a God given resource for the exploitation of Australian's for the profit of a few. Environmental fundamentalism is driving policies that are eroding our property rights through variously increasing the regulatory burden. (Water charges & COAG).

 

We oppose Agenda 21 & other Illegal UN treaties including COAG & UN World Bank Water Resources Management agreements that involve the charging of farmers for rainwater that falls & is stored on their properties.

 

Section 100 of The Constitution: The Commonwealth shall not, by any law or regulation of trade or commerce, abridge the right of a state or of the residents therein to the reasonable use of the waters of rivers for conservation or irrigation.

 

We oppose COAG management of water resources, as the focus is not on improving water supplies. To the uninitiated it means they are going to corporatise the catchment areas, then privatise them, then foreignise them.

 

GREAT WATER PROJECTS (Supported by One Nation)

 

1. Fitzroy River: The Fitzroy's catchment area is larger than the state of Victoria; in flood the Fitzroy's volume of water is second only to the Amazon. It has an annual runoff of 8 million mega litres; by comparison, the Sydney metropolitan area has around 4 million people & uses one-half million mega litres a year.

 

2. Ord, Victoria, Daly Rivers: The Ord-Victoria Project could be one of the greatest irrigation projects in the world, right on the doorstep of Asia's huge & growing population centres. Water expert Prof. Lance Enderbee recommends that the Ord & Victoria be developed in combination, on a vast scale; the Daly River has potential, as well.

 

3. Roper River: has significant development potential.

 

4. Flinders Nicholson & Leichhardt Rivers: would be a key river in the revised Bradfield Scheme, as the Nicholson & Leichhardt Rivers would likely be as well.

5. The Reid Scheme & the Mitchell, Staaten Gilbert & Norman Rivers: In a project on the scale of the Snowy Scheme, Brisbane engineer L.B.S. Reid in the 1940s proposed a series of dams, canals & tunnels to channel the floodwaters of the Walsh, Tate, Lynd, Einasleigh & Gilbert Rivers into the Diamantina. The Mitchell, Staaten, Gilbert & Norman Rivers, which now flow unused into the Gulf of Carpentaria, all have development potential.

 

6. The Bradfield Scheme: John Bradfield the renowned Engineer & designer of that work of art the Sydney Harbour Bridge, conceived an idea back in 1929, to develop Australia's fertile but arid hinterland into a vegetable garden of Eden by the miracle of water conservation & irrigation. The Bradfield Scheme proposed diverting water from the Tully, Burdekin & Herbert Rivers in North Queensland, in land to the Flinders & Thompson Rivers, with residual flowing into Lake Eyre.

 

7. The Dawson Scheme: First proposed in the 1920s, a dam on the Dawson could be the centrepiece of a $3 billion development project.

 

8. The Burnett River Scheme & Fraser Island: A dam & a series of weirs on the Burnett River would alleviate the chronic water shortages in the Bundaberg/Hervey bay region. Fraser Island is only 200km from the headwaters of the Murray/Darling system. The island has a high annual rainfall, giving it a water catchment equal to the low rainfall of the larger Darling catchment. Groundwater on Fraser Island is stored in massive reserves (estimated to be around 10-20 million mega litres) within the sand mass, of which almost 6 million mega litres is above sea level. A further 400,000 mega litres may be retained in the perched aquifers. The water from Fraser Island currently flows into the sea-just wasted. The water is so pure that it is exported as pure spring water; a scheme that is worthy of consideration has been put forward to divert this water inland, & also supply Hervey Bay & Maryborough. However according to a recent program on ABC TV, the rights to this water has been sold to Indonesia under World Heritage debt for equity.

 

8a. Brisbane & Gold Coast: Construction of  Wivenhoe dam, did not drought proof Brisbane, the solution for top quality potable water is Fraser Island. For the Gold Coast raising the wall the Hinze dam is flawed best solution construction of a new dam in Canungra gorge & installation of rain water tanks. With the rapid increase in population on the Gold Coast sewerage is also a problem with 82% of out falls going to waterways & oceans. Brisbane sewerage water after suitable treatment could simply be piped to the Lockyer valley for irrigation by running an additional pipe along the oil & gas pipeline way. Gold Coast water could be piped west to Beaudesert & Boonah shires the onto the Condamine river through the Heads.

 

9. The Clarence Scheme: Diverting the upper Clarence & Nymboida (& also the Macleay River) with a flow comparable to the Snowy Mountain diversions, over the Dividing Range into the Murray-Darling Basin would open up great new irrigation projects.

 

 10.The Murray-Darling Basin: Completely new system of irrigation for the Murray-Darling Basin, which produces40% of Australia's agriculture acreage, could double its existing $16 billion output, much of which could be delivered by the Melbourne via Queensland proposed rail line.

 

11.The Franklin Dam & the Summer Rains Project: It should still be built. In 1998, Bosch Engineering P/L. proposed the Summer Rains Project, a series of 48 projects across the state, which would more than double Tasmania's irrigated acreage.

 

12.Melbourne's chronic water shortages: could easily be resolved in the short term by using stormwater & treating & reusing wastewater, or in the long term, by nuclear desalination of seawater.

 

13.Melbourne wastewater diversion: As an alternative use of Melbourne's waste & stormwater, prof. Endersbee proposes to pump it over the Great Dividing Range into the Murray Darling Basin, to open up new irrigated agricultural areas.

14. Northwest Victoria; Dozens of dams need urgent maintenance or upgrading; the Wimmera Mallee's open channel irrigation system should be converted to pipes to prevent water wastage; & the Victorian government in 1988 proposed to double the size of the irrigation system in the north-west, to help boost the state's food export from $4 billion pa. to $20 billion by 2010.

 

15. Adelaide; like those of Melbourne & Perth, Adelaide's chronic water problems could be easily solved through nuclear desalination.

 

16. The Finke river; in addition to his "Bradfield", Dr Bradfield also proposed a Central Australian scheme, based upon a series of dams at gaps in the Mcdonnell-Musgrave Ranges, to store the flood waters of the Finke & its tributaries, the channels of which flow toward Lake Eyre.

 

17. Esperance to Kalgoorlie: United Utilities Australia has proposed to desalinate seawater off Esperance & pipe it to Kalgoorlie-Boulder, to solve the region's water shortage, a proposal most effectively done by nuclear desalination.

 

18. Perth' Wheat belt: In the short term, if desalinated seawater were pumped from Esperance to Kalgoorlie, this would enable the water now pumped to Kalgoorlie in the Mundaring-Kalgoorlie pipeline to stay in the Perth area. Ultimately, Perth should expand its supplies through nuclear desalination of seawater.

 

These schemes would provide a huge benefit to our inland, but the pressures of globalism, & native title are now there to obstruct any project of benefit to Australia.

 

WATER POLLUTION

Pollution & deterioration of water quality will adversely affect aquatic life. For anglers the main outcome of pollution is the fouling of fresh or salt water by industrial & agricultural effluent & sewerage outflank to an extent that it attacks or kills fish, destroys their food or ruins their normal habitat. But pollution has serious effects on the entire community: jeopardizing health, reducing food production, increasing the cost of manufactured goods, menacing aquatic flora & destroying tourist attractions. We oppose it

 

SOLVING OUR SALINATION PROBLEM

If one were to listen to the greenies, or too much to the mass media, one would think that the problem was mainly caused by farmers out there drowning every field in sight.

However of the two kinds of salinity, 1. dry land & 2. wetland or irrigation salinity, the latter comprises only 152,000 hectares, versus 2,180,000 hectares for dry land salinity. Dry land salinity results from excess water draining into an underlying water table bringing salt with it, while irrigation salinity is caused by over-irrigation of farmland.

There are two approaches to solving the problem, first is that of the Rockefeller funded Australia Conservation Foundation, WWF & some of our persuado so called "scientists" at CSIRO, to shut down or radically cut back Australia's rural sector.

The second approach is an engineering one to actually solve the problem, by re-design, rebuilding, & changed land-management practices, together with the application of new technologies (eg deep drainage see report from Paul Ensor). By redesigning irrigation systems we can double the area of irrigation using the same volume of water. Most present systems of irrigation use open channels & open ditches in the farms-all of that is simply feeding water into the groundwater. In parts like the Mallee, in the porous red soils, the irrigation channels & ditches just virtually pour all water into the ground. New systems would include sealed channels, piping, & drip-irrigation etc.

Australia's salinity problems can be turned to advantage, helping to create regional industries, jobs, & an improved environment. An opportunity exists to tackle salinity by extracting valuable minerals & chemicals for industry from saline ground waters & so reduce their impact on the landscape & agriculture. Substances dissolved in our salty ground waters can be used in the making of fertilisers, light metals, plastics, industrial chemicals, oil refining, pesticides, glass, fibre glass, ceramics, bleach, soaps, detergents, dyes, inks, sewerage treatment, sugar refining, alcohol brewing etc.  Ordinary salt can be crystallised out of groundwater by evaporation, then used to make chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium metal, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate & table salt. Among these are substances that can be used in the processing of titanium & zirconia. Once the salt is removed the water known as "bittern: still contains Magnesium, potassium, sulphates, boron, strontium, bromine, iodine & other useful compounds, the mineral sands also contain titanium.

Salination is a valuable asset, the Murray-Darling salt could be worth $200 million a year, also the basin may become the site of literally a titanic mineral development, the basin's ancient sediments are yielding mineral sands already worth $13 billion, & the value is rising steadily.   With all this at stake it’s easy to understand why our coalition governments & other with vested interests push salination in an attempt to shut down these valuable industries.

 

The Murray River has long suffered due to siltation at its mouth restricting its flow to the sea. We suggest a complete engineering feasibility study of the best way to resolve this, so improving the flow & allowing the river to cleanse itself. This proposal has been around for many years as far back as prior WW11., & the following report now proves it is the answer to the problem.

Prediction of deteriorating water quality in the Murray has not been realized, as according to Murray Darling Basin Commission data over the last 20 years, it is clear that the trend of reducing salinity levels has continued. Water quality is improving at Morgan.

 

* 10/10/01 Report from Paul Ensor of Albany WA. That Narembeen WA farmer John Hall has experimented & overcome the salination problems, & rejuvenating his property. He has recovered 130 acres of prior saline land with deep drainage & last year it produced a barley crop of 10 bags per acre. It also solved the problem of the flooding the near by Narembeen Hotel had with its cellar. This channel, which carries 17,000 kilo/litres of water daily with no rainfall to speak of, flows to a salt lake that has now recovered to a point that it now has fish in it.

All this is due to one man's private effort, proving that deep drainage is the answer to salination. Forget all the other theories, the prime rule for any agriculture; wet or dry land is to have adequate drainage, above & below ground. Water if it remains static goes sour & trouble will result sooner or later, this is the cause of the salination problem in many of our coastal & inland river systems.

The problem in most cases is a simple mechanical engineering one that with modern earth moving equipment is easily rectified.

 

BACKGROUND BRIEFING: #18 WATER

After comes under the control of the Commonwealth Governments department of Natural Resources. One Nation believes that along with Energy these items are so important that they should each be given a portfolio.

 

Australians consume more than 14,600 million cubic metres of water a year - equivalent to over 30 times the capacity of Sydney Harbour. Over 70% of this is used for irrigation. A further 21% goes to urban & industrial uses & the remaining 9% to other rural activities.

 

Water is crucial to Australia's natural & economic wealth. It is the basis of one of our largest industries, accounting for about $90 billion of infrastructure investment & contributing some $6 billion in annual revenues through irrigated agriculture production. This about 25% of all Australia's agriculture production.

 

Many of Australia's rivers have highly variable flows. Droughts & floods are common if not frequent phenomena. The high variability of flows has led us to extensively develop our rivers & groundwater resources for irrigated agriculture & domestic water supplies.

Indeed, our rivers & groundwater resources played a major role in the early settlement & development of Australia, often determining the location & viability of population centres & areas of agriculture production.

 

After World War 11, in an attempt to further ensure the reliable water supply for domestic & irrigation purposes, & to "drought-proof" Australia, a massive nationwide program of dam building took place. We now have more than 300 large dams. Use of groundwater has also grown significantly since World War 11 & we now have more than 500,000 wells & a groundwater asset base valued at $6.5 billion. In recent years the interdependence between groundwater & the broader natural resource base has been increasingly recognised. Disturbingly the emphases of government policy is moving away from further development.

 

By adopting UN treaties they have found that water resources can be managed, not only to prevent degradation but as a means of revenue & exploitation.

A typical example was the Franklin Dam & the Summer Rains Project in Tasmania, which was halted by the pro-greenie Rochefeller funded Hawke & Garth Evans. This destroyed the Tasmanian economy at an estimated ongoing cost to every Australian of $500 pa.

Under Australia's Federal system of government, responsibility for natural resource management rests with the States & Territories. However all governments including the Commonwealth recognised that with coordinated action they could manage our water resources. As a result, in 1994, through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), they developed a national policy to manage & exploit our water resources to be implemented by the year 2001.

The key elements of the package are: All water pricing is to be based on the principal of full cost recovery & transparency of cross subsidies;

 

Any future new investment in irrigation schemes, or extensions to existing schemes, are to be undertaken only after appraisal indicates it is economically viable & ecologically sustainable;

 

States & Territory Governments, through relevant agencies, are to implement comprehensive systems of water allocations or entitlements, which are to be backed by the separation of water property rights from land & include clear specifications of entitlements in terms of ownership, volume, reliability, transferability &, if appropriate quality;

The formal determination of water allocations or entitlements, including allocations for the environment as a legitimate user of water

 

Trading, including cross border sales, of water allocations & entitlements within the social or physical & ecological constraints of catchments;

 

An integrated catchment management approach to water resource management be adopted.

 

The separation, as far as possible, of resource management & regulatory roles of government from water service provision;

 

Greater responsibility at the local level for the management of water resources;

 

Greater public education about water use & consultation in the implementation of water reforms;

 

Appropriate research into water use efficiency technologies & related areas. Sounds like big brother again, to enforce it they have even launched a new spy satellite. The London Stock Exchange has begun to trade water as a commodity on the futures market. This means that the rain that falls on your property is no longer free. In fact you are limited to 10% of what falls on your land. One raindrop in ten is yours; the rest belongs to the UN. Yes the UN legally controls God's rain, & the multinationals will take control, already they are charging 6 cents a litre for rainwater. Like fuel they will increase prices, & when you can no longer afford to pay they will resume your property. Don't expect the current government to come to your assistance, as they are already party to the deal.

 

United Nations approved document agenda 21, shows clearly the origins of the recent laws enacted by state & Federal Governments. New controls have been long in the planning & now governments are enforcing the provisions of these agreements, even though many have not been ratified or approved by parliament. Primary producers are urged to reject plans by the Department of Environment to fence off waterways, rivers & creeks under a guise of conservation. Primary producers were not being told the truth by the State Labor Government, nor were primary produce organizations assisting membership in any way by simply trading away inalienable riparian rights for compensation.

The state government wants to control all surface & underground water across the state so it can levy charges against landholders for using their own water.

Already the destruction of Queensland primary industry has begun with the Premier attempting to take over Cubbie Station, the excuse is a flawed environmental plan to control salination & increase the flow of the Darling.

 

Under Australia's Federal system of government, responsibility for natural resource management rests with the States & Territories. However all governments including the Commonwealth recognised that with coordinated action they could manage our water resources. As a result, in 1994, through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), they developed a national policy to manage & exploit our water resources to be implemented by the year 2001.

 

The Queensland State Government has 12 Water Allocation & Management Plans (WAMPs) The Wamp for Dirranbandi-St George will have a huge impact, due to the region's dependency on irrigated agriculture. The farmers were issued with water licenses by the State Government 10 years ago & were compelled to adhere to license conditions in which clauses 1.001 required installation of infrastructure within two years from the date of issue. Clause 1002 requires them to beneficially use the water or risk loosing the license. They are now being told they will lose up to 60% of their formally approved water allocation, due to agenda 21 and based on Inaccurate Science & Methodologies from the UN & their green groups.

Over thirty years ago, licenses to take Government dam water were granted to growers, in what's called the St George Irrigation Area. Resulting in more recent licenses to store excess river water in times of flood.

The Balonne River runs into the Beadmore dam just near St George. Water allocation is the first 750 megalitres is for stock & domestic, between that level & the dam being full is for the St George Irrigation Area. Once the dam is full & overflowing the top to over 1200 megalitres a day, the irrigation licenses for storing the water kick in. The farmers depend on this storage to get them through the dry years, & have invested heavily to ensure it. As well as cotton, St George boasts the largest table grape operation in Queensland; it too would be hard hit, as all development has made the area a target for eco nuts.

Below this area the Balonne discharges into the Cato & the Narran Lakes, only reaching the Darling in major floods. Reports at the time of Australia's Centenary, described this area has having great possibilities, but at that time enterprise had only been primitively pastorial. The waters run to waste in floods, the plains bake & burn in times of drought; a few tanks have been excavated, a few dams made on the creeks, but nothing adequately to meet the terrible exigencies of a climate whose fat & lean years come almost as regular as those foretold by Joseph in Egypt.

 

Over one hundred years later the farmers have invested heavily & harvested this water & proven the possibilities of the area. Now the Premier is willing to destroy all this & the future of thousands of Queenslanders, to pacify flawed eco-nut theories, in an attempt to retain their vote. This will not solve the salination problems, it will however destroy the Dirranbandi-St George area & cost many jobs, this is what the Premier excels in. Water & carbon are already being traded as commodities on the futures markets & London Stock Exchange, so look out for corporate & government controls that will soon drag in billions of dollars from landowners & residents of Queensland.

                           

WATER POLLUTION

Queensland has some striking example of the pollution problem, right on our doorstep in Moreton Bay, a direct result of government neglect. Aquaculture, can be a profitable business, unfortunately like all industries there are those who do not obey the rules, this applies to a few at Rocky Point, resulting in contamination of Moreton Bay.

As an expedient solution to disposal of northern Gold Coast sewerage waste water, & to pursue the fraudulent agenda 21 policy, the Queensland state government decided to construct a biomass power plant at the Rocky Point sugar mill. However due to blind political correctness important factors were over looked:

Cost recovery & running costs: Cost recovery is nil, as this is the most inefficient method to generate electricity, costs are many times more than any other method & consumption of green material is great posing serious demands on our scarce green forest resources.

The agreement did not cover the use of sewerage water to cool the plant, as when heated to steam & condensed it turns to brine & cannot be reused, farmers do not want or need it to water their cane fields. The overflow & leeching from the containment pond, is very toxic with huge amounts of nutrients, especially nitrogen & phosphorous, which enter & pollute our waterways & sensitive marine   environments of Moreton Bay, & also endanger public health.

There is no excuse for this neglect as today’s environmental tracers can be applied to a range of pollution problems including, sulphur dioxide contamination of the atmosphere, sewerage & other contaminant dispersal to river, bays & ocean outfalls.

Sunfish has figures indicating that there are over three hundred thousand recreational fishermen who fish in Moreton Bay. It is estimated that they spend in the vicinity of between $260 & $360 million per year in the area. They also generate over nine thousand

jobs, also there is significant commercial fishing. Tourist activity should also be considered, people who boat for pleasure, or visit the islands, to swim & dive or just enjoy the beauty of the area.

Sadly this is all at risk due to pollution, siltation & neglect, fish & other marine life have become scarce, once deep waterways are now silted & stagnate, as tidal flow is restricted.

 

One Nation has real environmental policies, we believe in protection of our environment for Australian's & not selling out to foreign dictates. We will ensure the protection of Moreton Bay & all other Queensland waterways, we will eliminate sewerage outflows to them, ensuring that wherever possible treated waste water is directed inland for reuse in

irrigation etc., where it is needed. e.g.; Water from Gold Coast could be piped westward to the Condamine River, this will increase the Balonne river flow & assist irrigation in the St George-Dirranbandi area. The suggested route would basically follow up the Albert River valley to Beaudesert, then the Teviot Brook to Wilson’s Peak, & The Heads. This is the point on the Great Dividing Range that separates east & west flow of the waters, the west flows to the Condamine River. Gradients to this point are acceptable & there is a gap in the range at the heads, which should be suitable to pump the water over.

Cost of a pipeline would be less than that so far wasted on the Rocky Point Project.

Our water & air is also under threat of poisoning from additives being added to petrol to replace harmless lead. These are the deadly aromatics, Dimethylbenzine, Mesitylene, Toluene, Xylene, Benzene & Ethanol, which is Methyl Tertiary Butyl (MTBE). The later has now been banned as a fuel additive in California & 11 other states in the USA, & a bill is before the senate for a complete ban in all states.

 

DESALINATION

With established Australian weather & drought patterns, it may be worthwhile considering a cogeneration plant on North Stradbroke Island to pump supply fresh water from the island, & also to desalinate seawater. This would ensure fresh water supplies to the rapidly growing Gold Coast, as desalination requires large amounts of power, the only cheap, & clean way to do this is by using high technology renewable energy sources powered by the atom. Many countries are now involved in this for an assured supply clean potable water e.g.; Kazakhstan, India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, South Korea, Argentina, Iran, & Japan.

 

WATER SUPPLY PROPOSAL. PROJECT 3723

This proposal comes from Len McEntee, Dip. MECH. Eng., M.I.E. Aust.

"I have observed the national concern of widespread drought throughout Australia, shortage of water, artesian water, lowering of ground water levels. Rationing & taxing existing water, restricting use of farming & bores are clearly negative political measures."

Mr. McEntee plan is as follows: The building of 5 atomic safe power stations on the west coast approx. 500 Km apart on the Indian Ocean. The idea is to provide a clean electric power grid for Western Australia together with a desalination plant at each station using the Indian Ocean, power generated would also provide a pumping station & water pipeline eastward for 500km. The power generated could be used to process the great mineral belt in Western Australia, together with industrial centres to process the largest mineral belt in the world. The water desalinated could be used for reafforestation, fruit & vegetables, farming irrigation, turning the Western Australian desert into paradise.

 

Not only Western Australia would benefit. The induration of cloud vapour by forest & agriculture, plus natural evaporation would precipitate clouds carried by the west winds across Australia, to the Great Dividing Range in the Eastern States. The additional rain would form rivers which would flow westerly to Lake Eyre. This project would change the climate across Australia thus increasing the environment, ecology, & population of Australia

 

Safety Atomic power stations are clean power, as against fossil fuels. We have plentiful supplies of uranium to fuel these stations. There is no such thing as waste in modern reactors that recycle their by-products.

Today there are over 440 nuclear power stations operating in 31 countries, with a combined capacity of 353 GWe. In 2000 these provided 2447 billion kWh, over 16% of the world's electricity. Some 31 new power reactors are currently being constructed in 11 countries, 16 with a total net capacity of over 11,000 MWe are expected to be in operation before the end of 2004. In the longer term over 44 power reactors with a total net capacity of about 41,000 MWe are planned. Australia is now well behind in the technology & clean power race, which means that the flawed Kyoto accords if adopted would be the final nail in the coffin of our economy.

The aim of this project should result in:

1. saving on our natural water resources

2.increase the water supply to the West Australian western & central deserts

3.increase rural activity & prosperity

4. process enormous mineral sites & industries, mining-plus processing

5. enormous development of rich farmland, forests, grazing, agriculture, fruit & vegetables.

6. provide continuous supplies of fresh water

7.increase rainfall & environment  across Australia.

8. capacity to a population of say 400% of  today’s 20,000,000.

 

 DESERT INTO PARADISE

Mr. McEntee goes on to say, "The cost would be minimal considering the climate improvement & wealth creation throughout Australia & billion dollar losses due to drought. Water will turn desert into paradise enriching the environment instead of ravaging & depleting Australia as at present.

Statesmanship is required to achieve this national Australian project. Do not allow wealthy interests, corrupt politicians, greedy oil & insurance interests to enforce their power & influence for negative purposes."

PS: There is much merit in the above proposal.

 

Waste Water Quality; concern has been expressed about this, with Australian developed systems it is possible to treat water to any required level or standard e.g.: Memcor CMF systems remove particles greater than 0.2 micrometers in size, these can be discrete particles, colloidal particles, heavy metals, faecal bacteria, algae & viruses (attached to particulates).  Numerous smaller contaminates are also reduced such as insoluble BOD & COD; phosphorus & large organic molecules. The CMF Membrane has demonstrated a remarkable ability to remove 99.9% of viruses.

 

Ref: www.memcor.com, Mining & Natural Resources & Water.

Dirranbandi Irrigators Association & St George Water Harvesters.

 "Hydro Dollars The Privatisation of Water" by Susan Bryce

 "Australia's Water Problems" & "Solving our Salinity Problem"

 By The New Citizen & Paul Ensor. Water Supply project proposal 3723. by LJ McEntee.  "Property Rights & Water" by Dr Jennifer Marohasy

 

Briefing data is for background briefing only, coming from various recognised sources & authors, with all attempts to avoid political correctness. It is not necessarily One Nation Policy, for any disputes please contact the authors.

 

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