ENVIRONMENT                             G

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 and wildlife. We will implement the development of advanced efficient cleaner energy technologies, encourage the use and conversion to Ethanol, bio-diesels, auto gas and remove deadly aromatics from conventional petrol, of which should remain available to the public. We would not have ratified the Kyoto Accord and would withdraw from Agenda 21 along with other treaties and conventions such as Copenhagen, which are essentially, negative, counter-productive, and a disaster of international pseudo-science.

A CLEAN SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS

ü  One Nation will withdraw from all treaties, which threaten our land usage and environment.

ü  Oppose the flawed Kyoto Accord and imposing harmful carbon taxes on Australians.

ü  Believes water is a valuable resource, therefore it is essential to conserve it.

ü  Opposes the discharge of sewerage to bay and ocean outlets. We propose treatment and recycling of waste-water wherever possible and its use in irrigation of parklands, etc.  But not as drinking water.

ü  Proposes the eradication of feral animals in our national parks, i.e. pigs, foxes, cats etc, by certified shooters’ on controlled shoots; this is a proven method.  Animals such as horses and Camels etc, it is preferable to capture.

ü  Encourages conservation in the practical and realistic sense.

ü  Pro-energy, but is critical of projects that masquerade as significant energy sources for base load.

ü  We oppose “The Green’s Party”, who are funded by foreign interests with hidden agendas.

ü  Proposes realistic environmental policies to protect and improve our environment for all current and future generations of Australians.

ü  Will ensure our national parks are kept for the enjoyment of the people and protection of habitat.  Park rangers will be mainly sourced from voluntary organisations and provided with adequate funding to ensure parks are maintained to acceptable standards. We will ensure they remain for Australians now and in the future and not fall into foreign hands such as World Heritage or sold off as debt for equity.

ü  One Nation will implement the Coastal Protection Act nationwide with buffer zones to protect the habitat and access to our beaches, coastline, bays and waterways, bringing the numerous and mostly ineffective organisations under one umbrella. 

The Federal Government has set up the greenhouse office. Already it is costing you more for liquid fuels and the price of electricity will continually increase.  When you can no longer afford to pay, they will simply disconnect you.

The Federal Government Department of Environment and Heritage: This department (Environment Australia) is the Commonwealth Government's major environmental agency and is responsible for achieving the Government's environmental objectives, domestically and internationally. They claim their policy is to a natural and cultural environment, valued, enhanced and protected in harmony with the nation's social and economic goals and 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 U.N. treaties resulting in the destroying of our economy, imposing high energy prices, debt for equity of our National Parks, wildlife, mineral, energy, water resources and restricting farmers on use of their land.  Most of their policies are based on the flawed Kyoto Accord and Agenda 21.

In June 2000, it was revealed that the federal government planned 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 tropical Daintree Rainforest and 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 Luneta National Park from the Philippines to reduce their national debt. The Chairman of the Wet Tropics Management Authority, Tor Hundloe, has now officially valued Australia’s northern World Heritage areas 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 and minerals, coal, oil and 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, and various other areas of value, especially those with mineral resources, have since been designated World Heritage.

                               DEFENCE FORCE                H

“Rights and entitlements would not exist without duty, service and loyalty.”

Our leaders must create a defence posture that shows the world a national determination that, if required would mobilize the whole country to the cause of defence. Our leaders must resist attempts by politically motivated lobby groups to create divisions within the country and so undermine our patriotism, national spirit and our perception of the correctness of our views and democratic way of life. Globalization and subservience to United Nation treaties and directives have weakened our defence forces. These policies and treaties must be repealed; we must be our own masters. 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 and well-trained reserve forces backed by a strong sound competitive manufacturing capacity.  Why our industries, especially our defence industries, have been wound down so as to be virtually non-existent is paramount to treason. We must give priority to again becoming a manufacturing country, especially regarding our defence needs at all levels. History reinforces the logic that the only country that any nation can depend upon in time of security crises is itself.

Since the election of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1972, that followed the withdrawal of our troops from Vietnam. Government policies since then initiated a deliberate wind-down of our defence forces and defence capability, orchestrated from Canberra. Personnel numbers have been restricted and the ability of our defence industries to produce our defence needs has been drastically reduced. Our small arms factory has ceased production after producing a token amount of replacement weapons and our aircraft industry is virtually non-existent. Stockpiles of essential and still-useable equipment has been sold or destroyed instead of being stored as by other countries. This has included Sky hawk and Mirage jet fighters, Pilatus Porter light support STOL aircraft, 104 Centurion tanks (still used by Israelis for training) and our reserves of small arms weapons. To maintain an appearance of defence capability, the defence budget (unchanged for many years) has led to the purchase of a few items of high profile and expense - equipment such as Hornet and Super Hornet fighters, frigates and Collins submarines, while neglecting many of the most basic and essential components of the defence force. There must be Ready Reaction Forces up to strength for operations and ready at short notice. The debacle of preparing units for deployment to Timor by “cannibalising” other units and building up unit strength by 25% using Reservists on a 15-month contract must never happen again.

To have a successful defence force, a country must;

1.      Have a united, motivated and patriotic population, not divided by internal dissension created by politically motivated, minority lobby groups.

2.      Have a basic, well-trained defence force with high morale and motivation to duty.

3.      Have a defence industry capable of producing all defence needs, in quantities adequate for training and operations and manufactured in Australia.

Our Government must be prepared to initiate and support all three points in the national interest without allowing interference from overseas sources.

Women in the services: In Anglo-Saxon culture, women have a long and proud history of service in the armed forces and the war industry. Our culture has never before conscripted women to serve in combat as recent legislation has tried to enact. ONE NATION is resolute that women shall not be conscripted to engage in combat on or near front lines.  We are opposed to the conscription of women for combat for a host of reasons; suffice to say here that those that do support it are largely ignorant of the reality and brutality of war and inconsiderate of our servicemen and women.

Approximately 22% of the ADF and 25% of Reserves are former Cadets. Future policy should be to encourage growth of new Cadet Units at high schools and Army Reserve depots and to encourage active links with the community such as participation in ANZAC Day, Australia Day, annual shows and local festivals. Like all Reserve Forces, they are part of the community and our patriotic military tradition of loyalty and service. Cadet training should cover drill, discipline and pride in uniform and tradition, character building, adventure training and bush walking, canoeing and rock-climbing, Firearms safety training and marksmanship. Cadet sub calibre rifles and air rifles should be developed. Visits to Army establishments to experience service equipment and service life are essential. We recognize the growing concern among Australians with regard to our increasing vulnerability. Australians have the right to defend themselves, their families, their homes and their businesses. We acknowledge their legitimate right to gun ownership under the proviso that adequate training, licensing and storage form part of the equation. One Nation will continue to honour our brave men and women which served in armed conflicts around the world on our behalf. We will never forget those who gave their life for an independent, free and democratic Australia.

                                   IMMIGRATION                                                                                   I

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

This does NOT mean zero immigration, as the program would admit in the order of 30,000 migrants per annum.   

The justification for our policy of not exceeding zero net immigration is that environmentally, Australia is near her carrying capacity.  Economically, immigration is unsustainable and socially, if continued as is, will lead to a further ethnically divided Australia. Current policy is encouraging large numbers of illegal migrants and it is time Australia, while recognising the contribution made by migrants in the past, sends to the world the message that mass immigration has passed its “use by date.” It is now critical to develop a population policy for Australia in order to decide immigration numbers rationally and in the best interest of Australians. The immigration policies of the major political parties to this day have proven disastrous, proceeding as if there were no balance of payments problem, no foreign debt and no geographical or environmental constraints to population growth.  If continued, such an immigration policy will irreversibly alter the natural and urban environment, economic viability as well as undermining the maintenance and further development of a unique and valuable Australian identity and culture.    

Ø One Nation notes that immigration throughout the last century has been of great benefit to Australia; however it must be recognised that inappropriately high levels of immigration can be detrimental to employment, to national infrastructure, services and environment.

Ø An immediate hold on immigration is necessary until the economy has recovered, then the balance needs to be brought back to the 1960 percentages to protect our culture and heritage and promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being Australian. (The real cost of immigration adds at least $15 billion p.a. to our foreign debt).

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

Ø Australian "citizenship" is a valued privilege. To qualify, it should be necessary to study the Australian Constitution and laws and after five years, pass a test in English and swear allegiance to the commonwealth and flag. This will eliminate the expense of printing material in foreign languages and ensure assimilation and employment of those genuinely wanting to become good citizens in their adopted country. A minimum of five years waiting period on social security benefits for new migrants. Migrants passing a complete and thorough health check before acceptance being granted, including AIDS, Hepatitis, TB.

Multiculturalism has failed everywhere. It is negative and divisive, a weight that is drowning our once safe and cohesive society. One Nation will abolish multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act and promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being an Australian. (One Nation would eliminate the Department of Multiculturalism).

1.  As a government policy, multi racialism encompassed measures to destroy the Australian culture. It played a large part in migrant selection in an attempt to prevent them from assimilating into Australian society.  Exactly what was done and admitted to in England.

2.  ONE NATION intends to abolish multi racialism and the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 based on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as it is unconstitutional.  We would replace it with a policy of assimilation in which it will be made clear to all those applying to migrate to Australia that coming to Australia is a privilege that gives them an overriding, unifying commitment to Australia, to its past, current interests and future first and foremost.

3.  They must accept the basic structures and principles of Australian heritage, society and culture, the constitution and the rule of law, tolerance and equality, parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, and English as the national language.  Whilst they may come from other countries and cultures, loyalty to Australia and Australian Nationalism must come first.

4.  DISCRETION: This means freedom of judgement or choice, to choose wisely. With the current terrorist problems this is essential.  It is not intended to stereotype any group. Our policy in this regard has nothing to do with race; it is all about protecting our country from a real threat. One Nation will withdraw from UN treaties on migration and refugees that conflict with our sovereign rights and laws. One Nation proposes that Immigration should become the Department of Customs and Immigration, responsible for protection of our coastline from illegal invaders, goods (drugs, firearms) and terrorists, control and monitoring of entry and leaving of people and goods, issue of passports, visas and other documentation.

                                     FIREARMS                                   J

One Nation supports responsible gun ownership for the protection of our vast coastline from foreign and terrorist invasion, and our homes and property from criminal invasion. Our governments’ attempts to disarm law-abiding Australians resulted in a huge increase in crime; especially drug related crime and invasion of home and property. Today no one is safe in their homes, especially our seniors. They need to be protected from the increase in invasion and mindless bashings.

Ø One Nation would support a register of people prohibited from owning firearms due to violent and firearm related crime. This to be available on Crim-Track.

Ø The escalating crime rate has had the same effect on insurance costs. To defray this, we suggest discounts to responsible home/gun owners.

Ø One Nation will withdraw from all illegally signed treaties that threaten the defence and security of Australia.

Ø The right to use firearms to defend home and property against home invasion.

Ø Firearm legislation shall provide for a safe and responsible ownership and use of firearms. Whilst it is paramount that all Australians be protected from the illegal use and abuse of firearms, measures to control and apprehend those who illegally or irresponsibly use firearms, and not to be used as a tool to obstruct, harass or penalise legitimate law-abiding firearm owners.

Ø 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. The problem is all legislation to date treats the gun owner as a criminal whilst criminals face little, if any restrictions.

ONE NATION’S FIREARM POLICY IS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:

1.  Shooting is a legitimate profession, sport and pastime and participants should be treated accordingly.

2.  Australians have the right to defend themselves and their families in their own home.

3.  Disarming law-abiding Australians is not in the national interest and will do nothing to reduce crime.

ONE NATION members, many who are responsible gun owners, object to being treated as irresponsible and criminal.  Therefore we take a more positive and realistic approach with policy. Responsible gun owners are those who have been taught to appreciate the finer points of engineering in their guns and their safe use. This is usually handed down from father to son or through responsible clubs and military training etc.

Accidental death or injuries from guns of responsible owners are minimal, virtually non-existent. 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 the real reason for the problem is abrogation of Governments responsibility to the Australian people, ignoring the Australian Constitution and illegally signing foreign treaties; i.e. our current gun laws originate from the "Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women" in which the Government committed itself to "general and complete disarmament".

Since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australian taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first years results were: Australia-wide, homicides up 3.2 percent; Australia-wide, assaults up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies up 44 percent! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms went up 300 percent!  (Note the obvious, that while the law-abiding citizens turned their guns in, the criminals did not! Surprise - surprise. All who campaign to disarm the Australian law-abiding citizen are guilty of treason, along with those who legislate. How much proof do you need before the penny drops?

National governments are required to disarm their own citizens so there can be no armed resistance to the world government at any level. Despite denials by bureaucrats, plans to disarm Australians were well under way before the 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 the above states: “Affirming that…general and complete disarmament… will contribute to the attainment of full equality between men and women.” That meant civilian disarmament. To implement that Convention in Australia, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 was passed and the preamble to the Anti-discrimination Convention appended to it as a Schedule. Ref: ‘22 Steps to Global Tyranny’ by Graham Strachan.

                               MANUFACTURING                          K

One Nation opposes Globalism and will withdraw from international treaties that harm our manufacturing industry. Our policy is import replacement; we would restructure tax, banking, finance and training and reduce energy costs to allow our industry to compete on a true level playing field.

Ø   One Nation is strongly opposed to the "free trade" economic policies which, over the years, have led to the gradual destruction of the Australian manufacturing industry. With the resulting loss of hundreds of thousands of Australian jobs, there is an increasing dependence on the import of foreign goods to satisfy basic local demands and a deteriorating trade balance creating a massive and rapidly growing foreign debt problem that is reflected in the declining value of our dollar.

Ø   The demise of our manufacturing industry has accentuated serious unemployment and financial problems, greatly due to the pursuance of Globalization and as of 13/3/09 as never before in our history 5000 Australians every day are losing their jobs. We once manufactured 90% of our daily requirements and exported world wide our acclaimed products. Now we have unbelievably sunk as of March 2009 to a criminal annual GDP of 0.2 %. All caused by misguided policies implemented by successive treasonous governments since 1973. The mad continuation of these "globalist" policies has now driven us to the brink of financial, economic, Social and moral disaster. Our nation has been subdued from a wealthy and self sufficient one, to that of a "third world" state, depending on the International Monetary Fund and loans to pay our debts, thereby losing our economic and political freedoms.

HOW CAN AUSTRALIA START REBUILDING MANUFACTURING?

Ø   To ever be able to fix this mess One Nation would foremost, change our tax system, ridding ourselves of the iniquitous GST and introducing the 21st Century Electronic Tax.  Secondly, we must regain control of our energy resources to ensure we have the use of our abundant supplies at prices not inflated with taxes and profiteering (prices are currently inflated by as much as 500%).  One Nation Debit tax will raise enough revenue to buy back our electricity from the foreigners it was sold to without our permission. Low taxes and energy costs and cheap finance provides the opportunity for our manufacturing industry to prosper once more, and with it, job opportunities, export replacement and reduction in our trade imbalance and debt.

Ø   One Nation believes that the federal governments entering into various trade agreements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the LIMA Agreement which force local Australian industries and farmers to compete with imports from cheaper manufacturing and producing countries should be abandoned. Since Australia’s living standards, wage rates and other production costs are comparatively high, Australians must prepare to take either a cut in those things or get rid of the government.

Ø   This can only have one effect, to wipe out the Australian manufacturing and farming industry. That is precisely what their policies have achieved. “Globalisation”. This loss of our manufacturing industry is reducing us to a third world economy, resulting in loss of jobs and opportunities for our youth.  In February 2009, as One Nation has warned since 1999, these fears have sadly been realised with the announcement by the Foreign owned PACIFIC BRANDS who were allowed by blind and inept Government policy to acquire 18 of Australia’s most iconic manufacturing brands, as follows and all without any Government opposition: They are; Berlei, Bonds, Clarks (children's), Dunlop, Everlast, Grosby, Holeproof, Hush Puppies, King Gee, Mooks, Mossimo, Sheridan, Slazenger, Sleepmaker, Tontine and Yakka.  Now all to be made in Asia by slave labour at the loss of Australian jobs. Therefore One Nation is committed to reversing the situation, for it must under One Nation policy never ever happen again.

Ø   Strategic plans for the manufacturing industry aims to consult business, unions, trade experts and the regions that identify future opportunities and the best means of industry meeting those opportunities.  Every attempt must be made to promote agricultural based or related industries that besides arresting rural exodus and stimulating food production activities provide an incentive for the establishment of further natural resource-based industry. Development and strengthening of public, financial and other institutions in order to protect and stimulate industrial development, in particular, the basic rural, small, medium-scale and labour-intensive manufacturing industries'. Fair trade and 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. Our decline will not stop until Australians make a stand and force politicians to stop selling out our country by replacing them.

                               SMALL BUSINESS                           L

One Nation acknowledges that small business is a major employer in Australia and therefore policies affecting small business have a direct impact on employment levels. One Nation believes laws and procedures affecting small business should not compensate for incompetence, rather they should be structured to encourage new business, to support existing business, to facilitate small business expansion, to ensure fair competition and to provide as much protection as practical from the unscrupulous. The abolition of the GST and its replacement with E-Tax (refer to Policy E, Taxation and Finance.)

SMALL BUSINESS

Definition: Enterprises with less than 20 employees in all industries except manufacturing where they have less than 100 employees and agriculture where they have an estimated value of agricultural operations of between $22,500 and $400,000.

1. Small Business is a major employer in Australia and is the cornerstone of Australian communities and the economy, particularly in rural and regional areas. Governments have a responsibility to encourage and protect Australian owned and operated small business while recognising the need for competition and free enterprise. But never at their expense or peril of them being devoured by overseas interests, or even by large Australian conglomerates intent on market domination, where once acquired, as with most of our small and even large iconic Industries, have now vanished. The latest, as seen by the acquisition by the foreign owned “PACIFIC BRANDS” which one by one aggressively acquired 18 iconic Australian Brand Companies without any Government opposition!

2.  Australian small businesses will be favoured by government through policy over multinational and foreign     owned business.

3. Small business employers and employees have rights and responsibilities. Neither the exploitation of workers by employers nor the use of restrictive work practices favouring employees are in the interests of either group.

4. Small businesses are an integral part of the lives of their owners and generally include family involvement. The common practice of using the family home to finance small business and the treatment of the business as a basis for planning retirement income are factors which must be acknowledged when determining legislation and regulations affecting small business.

TAX REFORM

The E-Tax (Debit Tax) will replace the GST, Fringe Benefits Tax and Wholesale Sales Tax. It will also provide sufficient revenue to remove the Capital Gains Tax. The E-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 E-Tax only operates on expenditure and does not apply to savings, it allows small business to provide for their own expansion without having to depend on foreign owned banks and financial institutions (refer to Finance and Taxation Policy E for full details of benefits).

  GOVERNMENT RED TAPE

One Nation’s 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 and its affects on manufacturing and small business as most Australian owned companies are taken over by the multinationals, with help from our foreign owned banks and weak dollar. The Government is hell-bent on selling off all our assets, which will mean increased charges for just about all the necessities of life. The Coalition Liberal/Labor Governments call this good management. One Nation does not, and their high cost policies have failed. One Nation policies are the opposite.  We plan to reduce taxation, finance and fuel costs, putting this country back on a truly level playing field so that Australian industry and business is sustainable and competitive.

TARIFFS

Tariffs or quotas on imports will be re-introduced to enable Australian industry and 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 (refer to Manufacturing Policy K).  Industrial Relations (refer to W, Employment and Industrial Relations).

                                      ENERGY                                   M

Australia has been blessed with huge energy resources, One Nation would have this equate to useable and reusable forms of energy to provide our people and industry with this essential commodity at the lowest possible price. The aim is to phase out coal fired plants only where feasible, with new, clean and efficient technologies.   

Ø One Nation is committed to ensuring that Australians have access to our abundant supplies of energy without price impacts of the Kyoto and Copenhagen Accords, excise taxes and deregulation. Pricing of Australian produced energy for local consumption should be based on realistic wholesale pricing covering cost and fair profit margins for producers, refiners, distributors and retailers with a small road funding tax.  Excise and other taxes will be removed. One Nation will encourage the use and development of new technologies for cleaner, more efficient fuels and conversion to energy.

Ø One Nation will ensure large-scale electricity generation remains in public control; we oppose privatisation of this important and essential industry. One Nation proposes reinstating the National Energy Research and Development Corporation to undertake research, exploration, development and marketing of all our energy resources. Our proposed National Super Fund would be an ideal means of capital for energy resource development with foreign investment limited to 25%.

Ø One Nation believes all mineral and energy resources belong to the Commonwealth of Australia. (Australian people, with the exception to those who possess mineral rights to their property).

Ø One Nation believes Australia could become a major exporter of energy and bio-fuels. In such a case we suggest that export prices be set at world market (OPEC) prices in Australian dollars. The value of energy exports would be in the vicinity of trillions of dollars. 

Ø One Nation believes in true renewable energy. We oppose the Green party funded by wealthy foreign interests with hidden agendas who promote the “Climate Alarmist, Catastrophic Warming Fallacy”.

WHY AUSTRALIA NEEDS AN ENERGY POLICY

Self Sufficiency: In 2000-2001, Australia produced 42,753 million litres of liquid petroleum (crude oil, condensate and liquid petroleum gas) which is 95% of the demand for liquid petroleum products or 44671 million litres.  Australia has eight major oil refineries that are capable of producing enough petroleum products to easily supply the domestic market and export as well. However our government has no energy policy because we no longer own or control our industry, in turn these refineries source only about 40% of their crude oil requirements from Australian fields. Petroleum and 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 currently have three choices, “Hydro”, “HOT DRY ROCK” or the “power of the atom”, supplementary power generation include Solar and tidal flow. One Nation does not support wind turbines and would replace them with more appropriate and less intrusive forms of power supplementation.

Our Energy Policy has a number of key objectives, namely; Diversify Australia's energy mix towards the greater use of high technologically efficient and environmentally friendly sustainable sources such as Bio-fuels. Although we support Ethanol blended fuels, we do not support the discontinuing of Standard fuel that is necessary for some cars. What we do desire is to remove the deadly brew of aromatics, MTBE, (methyl tertiary butyl ether) that replaced lead, which consist of Dim ethyl Benzene, Mesitylene, Toluene, Xylene, Benzene; all declared carcinogens that will cause asthma, leukaemia and other cancer related illnesses. A recent AMA report revealed that over 1,800 of us die every year directly from car and truck exhaust fumes. One Nation finds this un-acceptable as it kill tens of thousands more of us than asbestos. Clearly lead had dangers, but in this case the cure was three times worse than the problem.

The Commonwealth Government’s Natural Resources portfolio covers Mining and Energy. These two items are of such importance to Australia that One Nation believes that there should be separate policies for each. Currently Government and Coalition have no Energy Policy other than to use it as a means of exploiting Australians with high pricing and taxation. One Nation would control and 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 and profiteering, we propose reinstating the National Energy Research and Development Corporation to undertake research, exploration, development and marketing of all our energy resources. All mineral and energy resources will be retained or retrieved as the property of the Commonwealth of Australia. Foreign investment will be still welcome, but not more than 25%. ONE NATION is committed to promoting energy development within Australia to provide the people of Australia the competitive and 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 and in the future in a way that conserves and enhances the community's resources on which life depends.

                                      TOURISM                                                                                      N

One Nation believes that our policies of Australians Touring Australia will provide an enormous boost to the tourist industry and help reverse the current situation which is vulnerable.

Ø A clear understanding of the attraction of the target region to visitor types and the capacity of visitor’s to

    access and satisfactorily experience the target region.

Ø A comprehensive estimate of international impact of tourism in terms of regional, social, economic and  

    environmental factors.

Ø A commitment to industry quality control which is consumer-driven and not industry-driven.

Ø Knowledge of marketing techniques that will successfully and economically communicate with selected

    potential visitors.

Ø Reduction or elimination of taxes and charges that hinder the industry e.g. Airport taxes and landing

    charges, accommodation taxes, payroll taxes (our Electronic Debit Tax and Energy Policy would enable

    the Australian industry to compete on a level playing field).

BACKGROUND

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:

Ø increase the number of visitors to Australia from overseas;

Ø Maximise the benefits to Australia from overseas visitors.

Ø The Commission is governed by a 10-member board, which reports to the Federal Minister for Sport and Tourism. The board forecasts: Visitor arrivals were to grow at an average annual rate of 7.8% between 1999 and 2010. Inbound Tourism's economic impacts is claimed to account for 12.2% of all export earnings, however these claims are somewhat optimistic as little of the claimed economic gain remains in Australia. The majority 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 and using their own money. Tourism offers few real job opportunities. Being dependent on it is unwise, especially in the current global financial situation. Tourism is the least profitable and most vulnerable enterprise in a shaky world economy. Only $13 billion comes from business travel and 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 who are displaced from our manufacturing industry.

DEFINING TOURISM

Our first regional management role should be to identify the primary market attractions, tourism icons and sub-icons, which ultimately define the industry. Second, we should identify essential servicing industries: tours, tour guides, agents, icon managers, and on-site accommodation and transport services. Then we should look at the extent of the next tier of service, providing complementary support and backup to the group; the food providers, liquor, music and entertainment providers, photo shops, souvenir outlets and the myriad other services and retail outlets. Finally, at the end of this line, should be the airlines, coach companies and hotel chains associated with the icon-to-icon transit phase and international arrival and departure. Quite clearly, the primary service providers and on-site managers are closest to the action. They are at the industry interface and are the best positioned to monitor tourist's motivations and their ever-changing tastes. The industry should be guided by their reports as to the nature and extent of current market demand. Hotel and airline managers, developers, coach companies, retailers, government and council bureaucracies, all usurp this all-important role purely because they are bigger; they carry more weight. 

With the erosion of democratic process, the primary service providers and the wider community have no input, either to correct industry lurches in the wrong direction, or to contain developments which harm the tourist attractions or the hosting community or both. Over-development certainly attracts some tourists, but it drives away many times more. Lost to sight and 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 and which then filters through the local economy, benefiting the entire community. From a business perspective, not to mention a patriotic one, we do not desire foreign-owned enterprises siphoning off our tourism-generated wealth, nor do we want them to intrude negatively on our tourism attractions and icons, nor on our social or natural environments. We certainly do not want them to take control of our industry. It needs to be recognised that the hospitality and transport industries are essentially incidental and complementary to the experiential journey of the tourist in Australia. Nobody travels twelve thousand kilometres to experience a hotel or an interstate flight.

                               POSTAL SERVICES                         O

One Nation proposes retaining the existing concept of community service obligations, structure and government ownership of Australia Post, with equality in employment, and sensible re-numeration for staff, management and directors.

POSTAL SERVICES

Ø  One Nation will retain Government ownership of Australia Post, as the current dividend stream (60% of after tax profits) is reliable.

Ø  Equality in employment, no apartheid and no interference from GATS.

Ø  Remuneration for board executives is excessive e.g.: Managing director $1million in 1999-2000, this will be reduced to levels in keeping with performance, responsibility, and overall wage structures. Appointment only of directors who have an understanding of postal services.

Ø  Retention of the existing two monopolies (letters less than 250 grams and inwards international mail.)

Ø  Retention of concept of community service obligations as required under the A.P.C. Act.

Ø  One Nation opposes any proposed legislation, by APS to bill e-mail users out of "alternative postage fees" Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5-cent surcharge on every E-mail.  This is another tax by stealth.

Ø  One Nation opposes deregulation and privatisation of Australia Post.

The Australia Post organization was set up by the Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 and the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997; it consists of The Board. The board sets the corporation's objectives, strategies and policies. 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 and policies put to the board for its endorsement.

Group managers are responsible for state administrations. These are consistent with state government areas, with the exception of Victoria and Tasmania, which are combined into a single operating area, and South Australia and the Northern Territory, which are similarly combined. This structure was changed in 2000-2001, with a new Mail and Networks division assuming responsibility for national transport and delivery co-ordination and the appointment of commercial managers in NSW and Victoria.

National Corporate Accounts. Established in January, this new group is responsible for managing all major accounts, working closely with state-based general managers and sales teams.

Highlights of 1999-2000:

Ø  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.

Ø  Achieving rises in profit, productivity and return on assets.

Ø  Recording the highest mail volume growth in nine years.

Ø  For eight years a 45. Cent standard letter rate was maintained by the G.P.O.  At that time this rate was the fourth lowest in the Western world.

Ø  Paying more than 170 million bills for 390 companies through Bill-pay.

Ø  Piloting major new initiatives including business banking, electronic Bill pay and an Internet fulfilment service.

AUSTRALIA POST; PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH.

23 March 2003: The first steps towards Privatisation of Australia Post were 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 and 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 W.T.O’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). We know that in 2002, the E.U. was pushing a trade deal to liberalise mail services, throwing them open to overseas companies. Under GATS, mail services are on the bargaining table.”

                              PRIMARY INDUSTRY                         P

One Nation will protect our primary industries from deregulation; native title claims and withdraw from international treaties which put us at any disadvantage.

Our aims include:

 1)    Stringent Quarantine and Custom requirements.

 2)   Tariff protection in line with reciprocal trading partners, to offset foreign subsidised competition.

 3)    Re-regulate, to create efficient marketing agencies to maximise returns.

 4)    Encourage farm forestry.

 5)    Research into by-products utilization and value adding.

 6)    Australian products promotion and content identification of all products.

 7)    Urgent measures and financial support to reverse salinity.

 8)    Better infrastructure.

 9)    Environmental conservation - instead of preservation.

10)   Population decentralisation.

11)   Government Bank with local branches.

12)   No privatisation of water.

13)   No majority foreign ownership of Australian land or resources.

14)   Curb investment speculations which drive up the price of land.

15)   Public Assets are not for sale.

16)   Regulated and uniform fuel prices to reduce costs.

17)   Promote tourism.

18)  No Genetically Modified Organism - (GMO). We would only allow the traditionally genetically modified.

Australia’s rural and regional communities are key contributors to our economy. We cannot afford losing their input and their skills. Without them, we would not stand a chance in times of crisis. One Nation firmly believes that a thriving rural and regional sector is vital for Australia’s economy and future.

Ø  One Nation will re-establish marketing boards to ensure a fair price for rural commodities! Importation of food products will be restricted by “Tariffs” to protect local industry.

Ø  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 U.S.A, E.E.C and 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 and prevent over fishing.

Ø  One Nation will ensure stringent quarantine inspection and treatment procedures to prevent the import of pests, diseases, noxious weeds and contaminated foods. All produce from contaminated countries shall be prohibited entry. Under a One Nation Government, if a country’s produce has contamination or disease, it simply won’t be permitted into Australia. No matter how safe it is claimed to be.

Ø  One Nation supports the Australian farmers who have worked hard over many years to develop their properties and improve farming practices, becoming the most efficient producers in the world. We will encourage them to continue and improve these long-term sustainable productive levels and will oppose any U.N. treaties aimed at destroying them.

Ø  One Nation supports the Australian farmers. Many true Australians, tracing back to our early settlers, have worked hard over generations to establish and develop their properties and improve farming practices and despite the odds, have become the most efficient producers in the world.

One Nation knows that our primary industries are a national asset and critical to our security. One Nation will support continued growth in our primary industries, encouraging environment-friendly economical, sustainable production and ethical resource use. In their pursuit of Globalism, they have managed to destroy our rural industries to the extent that we now have to import food that we once produced here. We will reverse this. There is only One Nation left to oppose them, a party that is not funded by and subservient to the multinationals; but instead represents the farmers and the hopes of the Australian people.

                          SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY                      Q

One Nation proposes the upgrading of Australian scientific research, with direction on research for the future benefit of Australia. Our proposed tax reforms will not impose any penalties on investment in research and development. One Nation opposes the pseudo science that is promoted by the Labor / liberal governments of Australia. With funds being granted mainly for research into politically correct topics. This has forced many of our brightest minds to leave Australia to pursue scientific research. The Copenhagen, Kyoto and Rio accords are identical in policy contexts that are supposedly scientific in their basis. They are enthusiastically applauded by scientists who don't understand what they are preaching and roundly condemned by the ones who do. We desire a return to where Australia is foremost in scientific research. The Australian Commonwealth Government is involved in Science, Industry and Technology through the following departments: Engineering, Geosciences, Grants, Industry, Life Science, Meteorology, Physical Science, Space Science and Technology. Recent past and current government have taken a soft option in this field. Once we led the world in science, The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the CSIRO were once foremost in vital areas of research, but now have been reduced to politically trendy research into pseudo science, such as the dangers of carbon and global warming.  One Nation proposes real scientific research.

What is “Greenhouse Effect”?

Our Planet retains around 30 % warmth from its “greenhouse” Atmosphere at night and it is just enough to keep the planet in the temperate range that it’s in.  World temperature fluctuations in the past have been common, also sudden and dramatic variations that occurred without the assistance of Man. Greenhouse is thus an essential part of life on earth and not a demon. The “greenhouse effect” is nature’s way of keeping the earth warm and in a small way offsetting the ice age that we may be potentially entering into. Greenhouse gases consist of 97 % water vapour. Of all the harmful gases known to man, carbon dioxide is not one; it is essential to plant and animal life and only contributes 2% of the greenhouse gas total. Scientific evidence shows that the Copenhagen and Kyoto accords are fraudulent and a disaster of international pseudo science. Past documentation presented by world leading environmental scientists to Australian Governments query the Kyoto accord. They concluded, “The observed data on climate and recent emission trends clearly indicate that the concept of “dangerous interference” in the climate system is outmoded within any reasonable horizon”. This makes the Copenhagen and Kyoto Protocols useless and irrelevant treaties. Some U.S. scientists predict temperatures may only raise 0.04 ºC by 2100.” That is of course, if where not at the time in an ice age. In addition the hysteria over carbon dioxide (CO2) is unfounded. The expected increase in CO2 levels due to the burning of fossil fuels could create a plant heaven. CO2 acts as a fertiliser for plants. More than a thousand experiments with food crops in 29 countries show that doubling the world's carbon dioxide would raise crop yields by half. However remember that those who perpetuate the dangers of global warming have the most to gain from it and it will be Australians who will loose the most. Our farmers will be forced to pay hefty carbon taxes due to emissions from their crops and livestock, when they plough their land. You will pay it too. Sun Spots: These dark spots on the sun’s surface are visible because the surface temperature is some 2000 Degrees less than that of its surrounds. In June of 1903 George Ellery Hale built a spectrograph observatory on Mt Wilson in the San Gabriele Mountains above Pasadena, U.S.A. There in June 1908 he discovered that sunspots were magnetic disturbances. These are caused when a magnetic field line bulge’s out and loops or twists above the surface of the sun. As a Rule, but not always adhered to, Sol has an 11 / 22 year cycle in which its Polls change over (with intense turmoil, each 11 or 22 years) and the star either enters a period of intense activity, usually accompanied by higher global temperature and drought; or becomes relatively sombre and we experience cooler temperatures, more snow, more rain and flooding.

WHY GLOBAL WARMING CAN’T STAND THE HEAT!

When Melbourne University geologist Ian Plimer examined "4000 million years of geological data" for evidence of global warming, he stumbled upon an astonishing discovery. Plimer believes; 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 and cooling do exist, the long-term trend has been cooling. We will be entering into in the next hundred years or so "a big freeze."  We know Vikings settled Greenland, grew crops there in the 10th century but had left by 1450 as the Localised Ice Age returned. Earth's climate isn't fixed but dynamic. 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. The slight increases in temperature since 1976 is due to other factors than increased CO2 levels”: Extraterrestrial factors include supernovas; sunspot flaring, comets and meteorites the main causes of climate change, i.e. 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 and ash; changes in sea level; continental drift; earthquakes and wobbles in the earth's orbit. In consequence the resulting hard times bringing crop failure and disease. He says we also have reason to fear the drift away from agridiversity to monoculture. If the earth experiences a significant climate shifts in the colder times ahead due to something like a volcanic explosion, we might not survive.

                           COMMUNICATIONS                          R

Communications play an important role in today’s world. The Australian Broadcasting Authority in this respect 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-sided view in the reporting of news and political comment.

Ø   One Nation opposes the Digital and Data-casting Act 2000 on the following grounds: Proposed dropping of the analogue TV signal. Costs are excessive for many Australians. Data-casting restrictions would impede Australian industry. Digital policy is pandering to commercial broadcasters. Australia has an excellent Analogue TV broadcasting system. We assert that analogue NOT be turned off until such time as digital signal is fully available and is strong enough to make digital TV viewable in all areas with poor reception.

Ø   One Nation opposed the privatisation and sale of Telstra. As covered in the Constitution, Government is compelled to put it before the people in a referendum. No such referendum has been undertaken. Far too much of the communications industry is already foreign controlled. Telstra's profits should be invested into improving services and reducing pricing with the phasing-out of zone charges. One Nation was one of the only political parties that opposed the sale of Telstra. However Australians were either unaware of this, or just plain apathetic, not realising the ramifications.

Ø   One Nation opposes the transferring of Telstra and Tele-marketing services offshore in the pursuit of Globalism and at the expense of Australian Jobs.

Ø   One Nation believes in freedom of the press and we will work to take it out of the control of UN treaties and the few with fixed agendas.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

Few have experienced more than One Nation 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 and guidelines has been the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO which as far back as 1970, set out to control all the world media with a campaign called the New World Information Order, or 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 and opinion, especially by a UN Committee of Soviet block interest groups. The push to codify and regulate continued to be advanced and 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 it has vast importance for Australia now as for other western nations being swallowed up by the New World Order. 1978 adopted an UNESCO Declaration outlining standards for the international media 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" and showed a biased and "sensationalist" view of those nations. Strong language like "cultural aggression" and "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 and recipient of both the Nobel and 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 numbers of "like-minded" western countries which have "adopted" the NWIO principals have now become a flood. The next step of course is to control the newest and latest "media"; the internet.

To address this invasion on our freedoms, it is One Nation’s policy to withdraw from all UN treaties that impose such restrictions.

After all, if you don't hear about it from the mainstream media, it didn't happen, right?

                                        SENIORS                                   S

SECURITY IN RETIREMENT

Australians of mature age should be classified as seniors and should be entitled to receive appropriate benefits. They should not suffer demeaning categorisation 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 with free health and medical benefits and without an assets test. They should also be encouraged, not hindered, in developing any supplementary secure and independent source of income for their retirement.

SENIORS

Ø  One Nation proposes all Australians over the age of 60 be classified as seniors.

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

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

Ø  Free Health and Medical care for all seniors during retirement.

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

Ø  One Nation will encourage all commercial interests to provide discounts to senior card-holders including major retail groups and fuel retail outlets.

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

Ø  Replace the war widow’s pension with the Veteran’s Widow/Widower’s Pension, which would be tax   

      exempt while retaining the Widow/Widower’s normal aged pension entitlements.

Ø  With regard to GST and unfair taxes on the extra services those seniors require in advancing years of retirement, our proposed tax reform will replace these and also protect savings for retirement.

Ø  Senior Card discount concessions to be provided on all public services e.g. transport, phones, licences, registration fees, rates, passports, etc.

Ø  One Nation will cap the value of seniors’ family homes and investment properties at the 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 divest of their assets or being forced into the hands of the banks.

ONE NATION PROPOSED RETIREMENT SCHEME

We propose returning to section 51 (xxiii) of the Commonwealth Constitution and “The Old Age Pension Bill of 1908” and amendments. This will ensure a basic federal scheme that is fully funded over one’s 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. There will be no assets test for the basic pension. Tax-exempt superannuation, either national or private, will be available for the provision of a little extra during retirement. We would provide equality for all retired seniors, providing them with all the federal and state benefits and concessions they have earned and are entitled to. 

A recent survey by the Salvation Army found poverty levels in Australia amongst the highest in the developed world.

The Australian Government currently categorises seniors as aged under the portfolios of Benefits and Payments (Social Security) and Health. 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 and health care. One Nation desires to lower the retirement age to 60 for all. One Nation aims to provide our seniors with the dignity and security that they have earned and are entitled to during their retirement.

                                    TRANSPORT                  T

To actively promote and encourage the planning and development of more efficient transport systems including improved roads and a national upgrading of highways, Australian shipping, suburban and country railways, including a standardised national rail gauge. Reduction of fuel prices, encouraged use of environmental friendly fuels, sensible national speed limits and Australian owned aviation (Airlines).

Ø   One Nation will promote and encourage the planning and development of efficient, safe, transport systems.

Ø   Improved roads and toll-free main and national highways, especially six-lane freeways and bridges. Continental east/west road links e.g. Winton via Boulia to Kimberleys and Bourke to Karratha, funded by fuel and the Debit Tax.

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

Ø   Road rules to be upgraded to international standards including sensible speed limits on all national highways.

Ø   Transport owner/operators to receive fair freight rates, working hours and lower operating costs.

Ø   We will re-regulate fuel prices and remove all excise tax on Australian produced liquid fuels (refer to Energy Policy for details).

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

Ø   We would encourage greater efficiency of our ports and Australian ownership of them.

Ø   We support an Australian owned and operated maritime fleet.

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

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 WW I and II, when our vulnerability was exposed due to reliance on foreign shipping. This led to the formation of the Australian Shipping Board (ASB) which in 1957 became ANL and for the next 41 years, until it was sold off in 1998, transported freight for Australian industry. Furthermore, it did so very profitably.

THE MISSING LINK, MELBOURNE-DARWIN, VIA NSW AND QUEENSLAND RAILWAY.

This ambitious rail project supported by One Nation involves a 4500km link between Melbourne and 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 McIntyre River separates Boggabilla from Carrington, a tiny spot on the Queensland Rail link between Inglewood and Goondiwindi. Construction of this bridge over the McIntyre 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 and Hughenden and west from Mount Isa to Tennant Creek, where the Express would link with the Alice Springs Darwin Line. This will provide a corridor that cuts through the productive heartland of Victoria, NSW and Queensland.

Total cost of the scheme is about $10 billion of which the $350 million funding needed to upgrade track in Victoria and NSW and build the Boggabilla-Carrington link has been arranged and assessment of a project to include spurs to the ports of Townsville and Gladstone and from Toowoomba to Brisbane. Three trains a day could be running between Melbourne and Darwin and 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 and should greatly increase the return to Australia’s producers, which in turn ensures the viability of the project. It also passes through areas of great mineral wealth in Queensland and the Northern Territory assuring it of increased revenue in both directions. 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 and exporters. Strict quarantine procedures will be in place to prevent any products coming into our country that could harm our rural industries.

                                     EDUCATION                  U

One Nation is committed to a fundamental level of education that 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 and ensure Christian values, patriotism and morality. Aptitude tests will be conducted to ensure students are directed towards an education in line with their capabilities.

SCHOOLS

Ø  Compulsory attendance at schools for all Australian children (where appropriate).

Ø  Placing male teachers back into the occupation so that numbers equal those of female teachers.

Ø  Curriculum: The school system should seek to provide literacy, numeracy, a generalised knowledge and 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 and social responsibilities, a driver education programme, Christian values in place of "moral autonomy". Education in the Australian constitution, its rights, responsibilities and history. Magna Charta, the Court, jury system and their histories. The role of state governors and the governor general, the political system and their histories. The Australian Electoral commission, referendum and voting, and their histories; would begin with basics in primary education, and finish at university level. All other traditional and contemporary electives shall continue in high schools.

Ø  Discipline: Re-introduce discipline at school and measures to prevent any abuse. (Students assaulting teachers removed and charged, not being allowed back until deemed no longer a danger to either their peers or their teachers).

Ø  School fees: As all state primary and secondary education has already been funded out of taxpayer contributions, further fees should not exist, (with the exception of private education). Funding to state and private schools will continue on an equitable value, based on student numbers.

Ø  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 and needs, but to qualify, all schools must return to a syllabus system and improve their standards. Private schools will be closely monitored to prevent funds from going to those involved in subversive cults and terrorist activities.

Ø  Universities and 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 emphasis and funding will be put into the return of indentured apprentice and TAFE training. This not only provides them with the necessary skills, but it provides a background to continue on to further education if and when required.

Ø  One Nation would provide a bursary system to pay for training and education where skills are desperately needed, e.g. doctors and nurses in public hospitals.

Ø  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 and resources, reducing costs and bringing further education within the reach of those who desire it.

Ø  One Nation suggests that a national youth civil service program would be beneficial for training, self-discipline, self-respect and self-esteem. The program would of course cover the three Armed Services, however also shall include hospital, emergency services, National Parks, Fisheries and Forestry.

Ø  We believe in second chance boot camps for wayward youth, that will teach them the error of their ways, respect for others, self-respect, discipline and responsibility. These programs have been on trial successfully and the participants’ re-offending rates are encouragingly very low. Juvenile justice, for those who qualify, involves giving our youth who front the courts a last chance before prison. Mixing black and white males and females together in a skills training program on an isolated property near Tingha in NSW was a huge success but the government pulled the funding when the program trainers found that a mere $200,000 was not enough when it went over budget, only needing $350,000 or so to work. Most of the training programs and equipment are provided by local industries i.e. panel beaters, mechanics, retail stores, light industry manufacturing and rural, etc. One Nation would get it going again under a new program.  

Programmes identical to this have been implemented Australia wide. They all achieved an identical success and they all had the pin pulled by state Labor governments.   

                                     FAMILY LAW                               V

One Nation believes in restoring the authority of the family and that responsible parents should not have their authority eroded by frivolous legislation or U.N. treaties. We recognise that the best support we can give to any family is support that keeps the marriage and family unit intact.

FAMILY LAW

Ø One Nation believes that safe, secure and happy societies require as a guiding principle, strong functional family units. We consider governments should recognise this basic principle and 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.

Ø Fair treatment for parents and their children will be pursued and realistic outcomes from the tribunals expected. Grandparents' and extended families' access needs shall be considered as a priority for the children in ensuring that their environments remain stable.

Ø The perception that the female is the "best" primary care giver and decision-maker must be challenged. Men are also good parents and subject to circumstances, should be afforded equal opportunity in gaining at least half custody of their offspring.

Ø The Family Law Court should be abolished and replaced with a Family Tribunal. A Family Tribunal would exclude legal interference and 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.

Ø Compulsory counselling reinforces societies' values and commitments to the sanctity of marriage and the individual's commitment to work strongly to retain the marriage vows.

Ø Custody and Access: Whilst joint custody is theoretically the ideal for all parties concerned, in practice, it can present many problems, which are not in the best interest of the upbringing of the children. Individual circumstances need to be assessed, making it difficult to set rules. It is paramount that both parties are able to re-establish their lives and therefore create the environment that is best for their children. Access and Child support should reflect this, at this point in time it does not. In general it must be seen in the child’s best interest to have regular contact with both parents.

Ø Settlements: This is also a major controversial area, causing as much argument as 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.

Ø 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.

Ø Statistics: Generally, they show that children of single parent families have a very poor future, for this reason alone all effort should be made to keep the family unit in place.

Ø 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 and any law contrary must be repealed.

One Nation will restore the authority of the family to discipline their children. Responsibility for the children must ultimately rest with the parents and not the State. The union of a man and a woman in marriage is a social institution and the cornerstone of a healthy society.

WE DESIRE TO:

1)  Implement tax relief for families with children (split income of single income families).

2)  Introduce a parent homemaker allowance for a parent to stay at home with children.

3)  Place emphasis on the values of the traditional family and on moral behaviour.

4)  Discourage divorces (counselling and tightening of laws).

5)  Give better legal access to children by non-custodial parent and a fairer separation settlement for  

     divorcees.

6)  Return to parent’s responsibility and authority for the upbringing of their children.

7)  Remove the secrecy and review the Family Law Court.

8)  Recognize the needs of second families when determining maintenance.

9)  Place emphasis on the concept of joint custody.

10)  Ensure consideration of access for grandparents and extended family.

                                   EMPLOYMENT                             W

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 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 a truly level playing field. One Nation will make creating employment and the reducing of unemployment and all its associated social ills our prime objective. One Nation's Industrial Relations Policy is based on fairness and equality for all parties concerned. The important role unions have played in Australia is recognised and the continuing need for workers to have access to union assistance to protect them from unscrupulous employers or negotiate their wages and conditions is acknowledged. Though encouraged, membership of unions will continue to be voluntary.

EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS

If a country has an agricultural base from which to feed its people, industrial infrastructure, a skilled manufacturing base, abundant energy and mineral resources and a healthy united and 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 and finance from foreigners and unemployment among its workforce is rife; the problem is political ineptitude and economic mismanagement. One Nation policy covers the following fields;

Ø Status of Unions and Enterprise Bargaining.

Ø Compulsory Unionism.

Ø Australian Work Place Agreements

Ø Australian Industrial Relations Commission

Ø Industrial Action

Ø Accountability of Unions and Audits

Ø Minimum Wage

Ø Sick Leave

Ø Workers' Compensation

Ø Employment Advertising

Ø Unfair Dismissal Laws

Ø Employee Participation and Incentives

Ø Federal and State Awards 

Ø Employee Protection - Business Bankruptcy

Ø Independent Contractors (Security of Payment)

Ø Role of Government in relation to Employment and Unions.

Ø In reforming the tax system by introducing the National Debit Tax to make it more attractive to employ workers, unemployment will subside.

Ø Training programs based on the needs of industry and business providing indentured apprenticeships to further skills and higher education. We need to return to indentured apprenticeship-based training which recent governments have discouraged. 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.

Ø The ideal age for apprenticeship is after third year at high school, at the age of 15-16 years, an age receptive to discipline and learning. The majority are now forced to stay another two years at school, at which time it is usually too late for them to successfully enter a trade.

Ø Nursing is a typical example. Many, 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 and drop in standards of care in hospitals.

Ø Engineering trades have suffered the same problem and we are fast losing all our skills as the older generations retire and there is no one 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.

One Nation recognizes that long-term employment must come from the private sector. We desire a return to Australian ownership of land, resources, public utilities and businesses. The assets and resources of Australia must be the property of the Australian people. One Nation believes that, combined with a strong primary industry and a vigorous resource sector, the stimulation of a broad-based manufacturing sector is vital to Australia’s future well being.  We would not force industry and employment to go offshore.

                           CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE                       X

One Nation desires to tackle crime. We wish to have truth in sentencing and equality in justice. We want to ensure it’s the criminal that suffers and not the victim. People have the right to defend their property and to be safe in their homes or on the street, especially our seniors and children.

POLICING

Ø Police Officers to have discretionary powers to remove unescorted, under aged children from the streets and return them to their homes or other suitable establishments.

Ø Policing to encourage road safety, rather than revenue collection.

Ø Strengthening of Community policing initiatives by increasing the use of foot patrols in appropriate areas.

Ø HSC educational standards for entry into the Police Force and advancement in careers to be reviewed, taking into account life and work experience, relevant to policing duties.

Ø Re-name the Police Service to Police Force.

Ø Increase number of Police Officers.

Ø Introduce a Workers Compensation Fund in line with general industry guidelines for Police. Rescind international agreements which stifle or override Australian law.

LAW AND ORDER

Ø One Nation believes that zero tolerance with discretion should be the guiding principal of dealing with crime.

Ø The right of citizens to use all reasonable means to protect their property, themselves and others against criminal acts.

Ø Truth in Sentencing.

Ø Mandatory imprisonment for offenders involved in violent crime, organised crime or hard drug trafficking.

Ø 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 offender’s release from custody.

Ø Legislation should be introduced that puts the rights and protection of law-abiding citizens above the rights of criminals.

Ø Boot camps set up for first time Juvenile offenders, to ensure they receive training and discipline about their role and responsibility to society.

Ø Vandalism: to be treated as crime, as it has now grown to such a level that it is costing councils, rate and 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, and courts.

Ø Courts need to impose heavier penalties on Juvenile repeat offenders.

Ø Compensation: Compulsory standards must be set for courts to award compensation to victims of crime.

Ø Naming of young criminals who are serial offenders to ensure accountability.

Ø Car theft to be treated as a serious crime.

Ø One Nation will correct the Coalition and Labor failed and costly firearm policies and replace them with effective laws that overcome the use of firearms by criminals.

Ø Lie detector and DNA testing to be accepted as evidence in solving crime. They both are useful tools and help eliminate any doubt and time wasting incurring excessive costs as caused by the current system.  To defend a charge in court today can cost up to and above $150,000.00.  Very few can afford justice at this price.

Ø Selection and direction of Judges and magistrates to be taken out of the political arena.

Ø Desecration of the Australian Flag to be a criminal offence.

Ø Parents given back the authority to be responsible for their children – until the age of 18.

Ø Sentencing provisions consistent with the seriousness of the offence.

Ø Vexatious litigation must not be entertained.

Australians have the right to expect a safe environment in their own country and respect for the law and its administrators are essential to this. Every citizen though, is ultimately responsible for his or her own actions. One Nation wants to see to a major decrease in crime. Accelerating crime rates, mounting drug abuse, plummeting moral values and the undermining of traditional families are destroying our society. We advocate a Justice System that protects the law-abiding and not the criminal. Law and Order, Crime and Punishment, are community issues and public funded institutions and must not be privatized.

                    GOVERNMENT / PARLIAMENT          Y

One Nation understands that under the Australian Constitution sovereignty ultimately rests in the hands of the Australian people. Supreme authority or power is thus vested in the people and the machinery of government merely an instrument whose duty it is to carry out that will. Any changes to the constitution or adoption of international laws can therefore only be authorised by the people through referendum. Ultimate authority hence resides with the people and not government. Australia must remain a sovereign and democratic Nation devoted to this principle.

ONE NATION proposes:

ü  Provision for CITIZEN INITIATED REFERENDA.

ü  Politicians are public servants. Perks of retired MP’s to cease. Superannuation brought in line with industry.

ü  Changing the Electoral Act to eliminate the ultimate Bias to the major parties.

ü  Parliamentarians to serve full term or be financially penalised.

ü  Disclosure of all donations over $500 to political parties to provide for accountability.

ü  End international treaty agreements which disadvantage Australia.

ü  Media ownership reduced to a maximum 20% for more independent and non-biased reporting.

ü  Strict Separation of Powers as set out in the Constitution.

ü  Increase the number of High Court judges to 9; judgment by a 2/3 majority.

ü  High, Federal, Supreme Court judges to be appointed and dismissed by a joint sitting of the respective    

      Parliaments by a 2/3 majority.

ü  A return of Public Services and Utilities to the people.

ü  Establish a Federal Bank, owned by the people.

ü  Supporting the Australian Constitution’s form of government.

We are over regulated and controlled. One Nation desires to repeal much of the regulation forced upon us by aloof bureaucrats and parliamentarians. We need solutions and not band-aid practices or pacifying rhetoric.

AUSTRALIA’S FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

The Australian Constitution was designed primarily as a set of rules to govern the relationship between the Federal and State Government; it was hoped that these rules would in no way infringe on the traditional rights and freedoms of the individual. Our Constitution owes its origin from British constitutional development and Australians are fortunate that our fore-fathers had this as a model on which to shape the high ideals contained in our constitution. It is a remarkable development of Anglo-Saxon constitutionalism going back to Magna Carta in 1215 and beyond.

The most sinister aspect of the continuing campaign to subvert the Federal Constitution has been the misuse of the External Powers by Federal Government in order to enter into international agreement and convention on a wide array of subjects, many of which have traditionally been under State jurisdiction. Then to argue that because of the external agreement the Federal Government had constitutional right to legislate for the whole of Australia even if it conflicted with State and Territory policy. By this procedure Federal Government has without consulting the people by referendum progressively increased their power over all aspects of Australian Life.

Australians were jolted into a realisation of how their Constitution had been subverted when the High Court began handing down decisions that allow International Law to overrule our sovereignty. Justice today is only for the wealthy and is no longer affordable for most Australians. Accountability and selection of the judiciary needs to be reviewed as often their decisions do not reflect the real world expectations of the people. One Nation will not recognise any treaty or trade agreement signed in breach of our Constitution; we will withdraw from them and take the appropriate Constitutional action.

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 us all. 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 that is actually the will of the people.

                           OATH OF ALLEGIENCE                       Z

Candidates Oath

  Spoken with a firm and projected voice.

“I,      (full name)      , pledge this allegiance to One Nation and the people of Australia. That I shall conduct myself with decorum and at all times uphold our party’s integrity, for the welfare, security and prosperity of the people of Australia. For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our honesty and loyalty, our unwavering support and our honour. This, I swear, before almighty God, the Federation of Australia and its Commonwealth. So help me God.”

TOAST

Spoken together as with the Oath.

“We toast to One Nation, Our Nation, Australia!”

THE ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY

1)     To bring about the necessary changes for fair and equal treatment of all Australians, within a system of government recognising and acting upon a need for Australia to be truly One Nation.

2)     To ensure the rights of individual citizens to freely express themselves and participate fully in all aspects of our democracy.

3)     To protect and nurture our sovereignty and national pride.

4)     To protect and preserve our flag, history and way of life and improve our standard of living.

5)     To encourage, enthuse, protect, nurture and educate our young so they have equal opportunity to achieve all they can and take their rightful place in a decent society.

6)     To actively pursue and promote treaties, investment and development as deemed appropriate and in the national interest.

7)     To ensure the honour and memory of those who gave their lives in defence of our country.

8)     To appropriately honour and reward those who risk their lives in defence or our country, in particular those who sustained wounds in the process or now suffer aliments as a consequence.

9)     To ensure those accused of crimes are dealt with justly and those convicted of crimes endure appropriate penalties.

10)   To ensure law abiding Australians, with legitimate purpose, will always have access to firearms to undertake various activities including the defence of themselves and their families in their own homes.

11)   To ensure our society remains benevolent in its approach to our fellow citizens in genuine need.

12)   To treat all Australians equally and justly and with government assistance based on need not race.

13)   To support and advocate traditional family values and uphold the institution of the family in its fight against the many who aim to breakdown this important unit of any decent society.

14)   To re-vitalise and support our defence forces and personnel and ensure Australia builds and maintains an appropriate level of national security and defence.

15)   To restrict immigration, except that related to investment; and for this to continue at least until Australia’s unemployment resolved, our infrastructure sufficient and our health system able to cope.

16)   To amend the native title legislation and reverse the effect of the Wik Legislation upon farmland.

17)   To restrict foreign ownership of Australia, end the sale of public assets and repeal United Nations treaties that are detrimental or of no benefit to Australia.

18)   To restore tariff protection, revitalise Australian industry and manufacturing and initiate financial support for small business and the rural sector, in particular in the interest of creating national wealth and employment.

19)   To take positive action on such matters as taxation reform, education, health, unemployment, crime, the environment and the discrimination created by political correctness.

20)   To re-establish and maintain a genuine publicly-owned national bank like the Commonwealth Bank used to be, to develop our country for the benefit of all Australians.

21)   To abolish divisive and discriminatory policies, such as those related to Aboriginal and multicultural affairs.

22)   To secure the election to public office of members committed to the objectives of the party.

YOUR ESSENTIAL SERVICES

State utilities were created and intended to provide a service and compliment towards the betterment of society. The very purpose of a public utility is that it is not there to make a profit for a few; it is there to provide an essential service to the multitude. It was conceived for the people by the people, as all other means either did not exist or could not be entrusted to provide a fair and equitable service to all. It never can. Privatisation of Essential State Assets must not only be stoped, but reversed.

The current failings and those to come are not the fault of the services being public utilities. The blame lies solely at the feet of Government which has contemptuously and deliberately perverted our utilities to become unaffordable, inadequately maintained, nor given the ability to sufficiently keep pace with population growth. Our political leaders, their subordinates and masters are intentionally dismantling our nation’s infrastructure to satisfy the greed and power of a few, with total disregard and utter contempt for our constitution, sovereignty and people.

This will not stop. This will never change. Not until the majority of Australians become politically active in supporting a political party dedicated to confronting the most vial acts of treason ever inflicted upon the Australian people. This is why One Nation exists. 

   ONE NATION

  FIGHTING

BACK!

Join with One Nation and help build a brighter future for our country

(Authorised by Andrew Webber, Policy Co-Ordinator, One Nation (NSW Division) PO Box 4213, Lugarno, NSW 2210 and Mrs Pat Loy, National Communications Officer for One Nation and State Secretary One Nation (Victoria Division) (The work of the Late Colin Law is acknowledged in the contribution he has made as Queensland Policy coordinator and National Policy coordinator to this document)

Updated 27th March 2011

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