The Australia of today has sadly lost the liberty of yesteryears. The government has not been the government of the people, consequently, the employed have become the disemployed, our industries have been moved offshore, our farmers have been forced off their land, the peoples utilities have been handed over to private investment, our wealth has been exported, the foreign debt hangs like a millstone around the neck of each Australian present and future, our very means of livelihood has been legislated away!
Decades of government by the party system has allowed this to happen to our country. The liberty and way of life that thousands of patriotic Australians fought for and gave their lives to retain, has been handed away by the enemy within our own government, we have lost the freedom to control our own destiny.
Now is the time for all of Australia to unite as one to save and rebuild our once great country!
I believe that the following set of principles can be adopted by all people, all groups, and all political parties, and that the principles will unite Australians one and all in common good and purpose for the restoration of our lost liberty.
Decades of preparation preceded the 1983 de-regulation of the Australian economy, the many changes to the economic system included; floating the dollar, de-regulating the stock exchange, and inviting 15 foreign banks to establish operations in Australia. That is but a few of the changes that were rung in from the voluminous Campbell and Martin reports.
These changes have combined with the parallel program the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Both inquiries commenced in 1979 under the hand of then treasurer John Howard. The effects of the NIEO on the deregulated economy have resulted in the recession we had to have.
The Commonwealth Bank was established by King O'Malley as the peoples bank in 1911, when it opened its' doors in 1912, William Morris Hughes stated " It stands here today as the outward and visible sign of the wealth and substance of the whole people".
It served Australia well under the direction of Denison Miller until his death in 1923, during this period the bank conferred huge financial benefit for farming and industry, public works, and the war effort.
In 1924 the private banks persuaded the government to amend the Commonwealth Bank Act, and subverted the bank from it's original purpose of being a bank for the people.
What followed was appointment of men with directorship of finance houses to the bank board, the Common Wealth Bank of the people had become the very thing it was established to oppose... a bankers bank as explained in this candid report by
Clyde Cameron on the Bank selloff!
The Australian parliament presents a token persona of serving the people, key politicians in fact carry out the wishes of rich mans clubs and societies that few Australians have even heard of.
The tyranny of parliament now approaches the ancient tyranny of Kings that our ancestors struggled against for centuries.
The Swiss system of Citizens Initiated Referenda (C.I.R.) has a proven track record over 100 years, it provides the mechanism by which the people may actually control their own government.
C.I.R. is the only way that there can be government for the people by the people.
Over the centuries, nations have departed from direct democracy because of the impossibility of gathering the whole population at the one place at the same time.
The technology now exists to restore true democracy which can only exist through the direct participation of the people!
It is a well known fact that professional politicians have little allegiance to their electorate.
Clearly, MPs serve their party and the needs of powerful corporate giants before the needs of ordinary voters.
Direct Democracy would force government to consult citizens on fundamental changes.
24 states in USA now allow their citizens to take part in democratic decision making.
The false representation of the party system has left the people of Australia with only a facade of democracy.
The 1953 International Taxation Bill has worked against the Australian economy for the past four decades. The tax revenue loss would have been sufficient to finance any and all, industry, business and farming, and capital works etc. without the need for foreign investment.
Generally known as the Double Taxation Bill, it is best summed up in the words of the Hon. Clyde R. Cameron, "A government worth its salt would repudiate the 1953 decision to allow foreign countries to repatriate their profits to their parent companies without having to pay a proper share of their tax burden".
It is also worth reading the initial criticism at the bill's inception, see Hansard, HR, 26 Nov.1953, page 601.
Australia is signatory to many hundreds of international treaties, these binding agreements have actually handed away Australian decision and law making to foreign control, and thus have ceded Australian sovereignty to a foreign power.
The most significant "treaty" is in fact a declaration called the Lima Declaration, being a declaration it does not require a signature or ratification, it did not even require to come before parliament to be approved, and yet this agreement totally controls our international trade and our domestic industry, it totally and absolutely controls Australian economic policy via a treaty nested within a treaty, the insidious Lima Declaration actually introduced the New International Economic Order or NIEO to Australia, I consider the NIEO to be the most secretive treaty to be foisted apon the unsuspecting Australian people.
These international treaties can and are introduced into Australian law without the scrutiny of parliament, the Lima Declaration was an example of this treacherous method of treaty making, Senator D.R. Willessee of the Whitlam government pledged Australian support at Lima, Peru in 1975.
It is unacceptable that as a nation, Australia is trading at a loss. The past few years have seen an annual trade deficit of $25B, that is we import or buy $25B more than we export or sell.
Tariffs are the tools for nations to build economic independence!!!
A tariff is the means to sever dependance on the mother country and establish your own viable industry.
A tariff is an essential economic adjustment that maintains balance of trade.
A tariff offers an equal choice between the local and the imported product without loss to the consumer or the nation!
Wake up, economic rationalists.
In 1979 Australian farming and manufacturing was providing full employment and paying its fair share of tax on 90% of all goods sold in this country, now, in 1997 90% of all goods are produced offshore by foreign companies who pay no tax in Australia.
We must have tariffs to equalize the trade imbalance and protect our own Australian industries that contribute to the running costs of our country.
Farming and industry are an integral mainstay of a self sufficient country. Depending on foreign countries for the basics of life is foolish, and treacherous to your own country. It is absurd to give work and wealth to companies and people in another country, while your own people go onto welfare, and business in your own country closes its doors.
It is treacherous to actually implement international agreements that ensure that this happens, it is disgraceful to arrange for this to happen without a word of explanation or apology to the people of Australia, yet this subject has not been mentioned to the people by either Gough Whitlam who initiated it, Malcom Fraser who nurtured it, John Howard who prepared the inquiry, nor Bob Hawke or Paul Keating who implemented the final stage.
By repealing the infamous Lima Declaration and the NIEO, Australia's economic slide could be reversed.
By restoring our own Common Wealth Bank, farming and industry could have their loans restructured to a fair and equitable debt, new farms and new industry could also be financed at low cost, the economic exodus could readily be reversed.
Good government should not serve two masters, it tells us so in our constitution. Past and present politicians have allowed advisors and think tanks with foreign intent to persuade them to legislate economic guidelines in favour of foreign interests.
The Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) was set up to prevent foreign ownership of Australia. This was fine in theory, in practice however, the FIRB has rubber stamped 90% of Australia into foreign hands.
A complete overhaul of company taxation and introduction of capital outflow levies is urgently required.
Immediate repudiation of the 1953 Double Taxation Bill should also be undertaken, with additional consideration being given to ways to nationalise all Australian business.
Australia should not have to take a back seat to anyone, we have some of the most innovative and capable people in the world in many fields.
Too often, the government puts Australian interests last, the number of inventions and developments that have been sent offshore for production is scandalous. Australian companies are usually overlooked when government departments buy car fleets and equipment, imagine getting coinage done offshore when we have our own mints and while we have unemployment in Australia
The hypocrisy of Australian politicians is disgraceful, to give lip service to becoming the clever country, while introducing secretive legislation that achieves the opposite, the 1979 NIEO inquiry was held under the secrecy of a "D" notice.
Australia has become a quarry of raw materials that are sent overseas for value adding processing before being sent back to us to repurchase.
The preparation of our original Constitution did not involve the whole population of Australia despite decades of Conventions, rather, it was the product of rich landholders, politicians and the British Foreign Office.
Even though we have enjoyed living in the best country in the world, the Constitution has been subverted by treacherous Politicians and the Judiciary to serve wealthy interests instead of the people.
Legally, in international terms, our Constitution became invalid by 10th January 1920
at the latest when Australia joined the League of Nations.A new Constitution is urgently required to reverse the effects of the ongoing Economic Conquest that is divesting the Nation of wealth, ownership, and the right to a decent living.
Also the matter of allowing private banks to retain a sole monopoly on money creation requires attention, as does the permission of tax evasion granted by the Government to Foreign Investment and big business.
Only a new Constitution can adequately protect the people of Australia from the despotic and deliberate abberations performed on our current Constitution to deliver the wealth of the Nation into private hands.