ERA OF AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY?
Ask your grandparents if this first paragraph is true
THE TIME OF REAL AUSSIE PROSPERITY
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s every Australian had a full time job. Every family was prosperous and education was free. Owning our own home was the achievable dream of every Aussie, and food was healthy. Asthma and all the behaviour difficulties suffered by our children today were virtually unknown. Australia was a very happy place.
Then things began to change.
Family farms went broke as cheap foods invaded Australia, and cheap subsidised Chinese goods drove our manufacturers out of business. At first, people thought cheap was good, but in only 25 years Australia lost 3 million full time jobs. Increasingly, ground into poverty and homelessness, Australians can't afford any goods, cheap or otherwise
Our politicians lied to us. John Howard, and later Kevin Rudd, would have us believe this is the ‘Age of Prosperity’; that unemployment is the lowest in 30 years. Julia Gillard claims it is 5.9%.*
Recorded door-to-door through a pre-identified and well-proved demographic corridor, our conservative independent surveys** show that real unemployment is 14%, . However, these three-yearly surveys no longer record unemployment accurately because variously 7% to 13% of Australians are now homeless. Nevertheless, 54% of our survey participants believe unemployment is between 15% and 30%, revealing that government has little credibility. We believe Australia's real unemployment is the same as Spain's, Ireland's, Portugal's, Italy's, Greece's, UK's, and America's... around 23%. Our readers are invited to conduct your own surveys through any middle to working class suburb, but we make two suggstions: First, offer a choice of favoured definitions of employment, including that in use globally since 1893, which is having a job that pays a liveable wage. Second, design your main survey employing the most popular definition chosen by your first survey participants. The Australian Government definition is: you are employed if you work, train or study for one hour per week. If that is just and fair then Juliar Gillard will surely go to heaven alongside Mother Theresa.
Unemployment has caused widespread dislocation. Since the mid 70s one million Aussies were forced to leave rural and regional Australia and move to cities. This, plus unwise refugee and migrant intake placed enormous strain on coastal city water supplies and housing.
What caused this slow motion disaster?
There were many specific driving factors: privatisation, deregulation, economic rationalism, closure of 150 abattoirs (240,000 jobs from abattoirs and feeder/service industries) through live export of cattle and sheep; but most of all it was caused by the reduction and removal of tariffs, required by the globalist political cult of free trade. Free trade really means the big devour the small, and how this makes Australia "more competitive" has yet to be explained. Obviously, it cannot be explained because it is destroying Australian manufacturing, our food security, our disease quarantine, our jobs, our standard of living, our national sovereignty, and our ownership of our own resources... natural, infrastructural, and human resources.
What are tariffs?
Tariffs are taxes placed on foreign imported goods and services that protect Australian industries, workers and families from unfair foreign competition. Removal of these protections destroyed three quarters of our family farms and almost 90% of our manufacturing sector. It is now beginning to destroy our IT and service industries.
Incredibly, Australia is the only country in the world whose government went to these advanced lengths (although the US is not far behind). Currently, and alone in the workd, it has imposed a crazy carbon tax that will exacerbate the damage and impoverish those not already pauperised, whilst having no positive environmental effect.
Currently, as a result of tariff removal, our imports have a 30% higher value than our exports. Technically, Australia is bankrupt and Government borrows $100 million per day to keep administration afloat.. When the US dollar finally crashes, global depression will be sucked into the vacuum of Australian insolvency. This will end forever Australia as we know it. The likelihood of the Euro going the same way will mean Australia can only save itself unilaterally.
What can be done to save our country?
One single move will create a firewall to keep imported global recession at bay and create two million full time jobs within three years; approximately three million jobs within five. What is this silver bullet?
Tariff restoration
Unfortunately, the big international bankers and corporations do not want this because our loss is their profit, and they contribute heavily to politicians’ election campaigns. So, all Australians are going to have to make their views known to politicians.
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To understand the full story on Tariff Restoration, click on the link at the top of this page... Restoring Prosperity - Details. To appreciate all seventeen elements of the globalisation of Australia read How Australia was Globalised. Click on the word more... on the page titles line for a drop-down menu of articles that provide details of how the global banker elite has imposed this monsterous colonisation of Australia. There are even articles pointing to realistic and practical options available to all Australians to help us take back our freedom and prosperity.
BRING BACK TARIFFS
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*From well before the Australian Recession of the 1890s, through the Great Depression, and up until the late 1970s, employment was defined as having a job that paid a liveable wage. To have valid historical and therefore statistical significance, any time-weighted measure must have definitive consistency. Commensurate with this principle, unemployment was defined as not having a job that paid a liveable wage. During the Keating/Howard era, employment (and therefore unemployment) was redefined as having experienced one hour’s work, training or study during the past week. This effectively removed about 70% of unemployed from official statistics; more in some states. eg In the NT, where CDEP removed about 95% of Aborigines from statistics, 37% unemployed was neatly reduced to 7%. We regard the historical definition of unemployment as the only valid measure.
**These figures were derived from the 2010 interactive questionnaire surveys of a pre-measured and proven (2001 & 2006) archetypal Australian demographic corridor in South East Queensland (Buderim/ Kuluin/ Maroochydore outer CBD/ Maroochy Waters); a purportedly tourism-wealthy region, in which any conceivable bias should lean heavily towards prosperity and low unemployment, relative to mainstream Australia. The survey was undertaken by the Ryan Institute for Evidential Demographics, adapting direct contact techniques successfully developed by the author for Commonwealth and NT Governments to finally accurately measure urban drift, camp populations and transgeographic motivation of traditional Northern Territory Aborigines. Prior to this, standard social science research models produced up to five hundred percent margins of error. Previous survey results were published in the hardcopy Australian Independent, but since that paper's demise all Australian media have refused to publish our results.
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