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.
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.
Our conservative independent surveys show that real unemployment * is 19% ¹; that 54% ² of Aussies barely survive on under $15,000 per year; and that 68% ³ have incomes under $29,000. 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 driving factors: privatisation, deregulation, economic rationalism; but most of all it was caused by reduction and removal of tariffs.
What are tariffs?
Tariffs are taxes placed on foreign imported goods and services that protect Australian industries, workers and families from unfair competition. Removal of these protections destroyed two thirds of our family farms and almost half 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 lengths. The US actually increased tariffs during the same period.
Currently, as a result of tariff removal, our imports have a 30% higher value than our exports. Technically, Australia is bankrupt. When the US dollar finally crashes, global depression will be sucked in to the vacuum of Australian insolvency. This will end forever Australia as we know it.
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.
Become a member of the tariff restoration campaign by registering your support at our temporary registry at tonyryan43@gmail.com
This will make you a recorded supporter of the Tariff Restoration Bloc
And history will record you as a ripper Aussie hero.
One day, you will be able to point to your name on this list and prove you were among the first to defend Australia in the greatest crisis of our history. Imagine how proud this will make your grandchildren.
To understand the full story on Tariff Restoration, click on the link at the top of this page... 'Restoring Prosperity - Details'.
SOURCES:
*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.
¹, ², & ³ These figures were derived from the 2006 interactive questionnaire surveys of a pre-measured and proven (2001) 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 Australian Independent’s Alliance, adapting techniques successfully developed by the 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. The results of the SEQ sample demographic survey were published in the micro tabloid Australian Independent, which is available for critical perusal in hardcopy or PDF.
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