AUSSIE JOB SECURITY
AUSSIE JOB SECURITY
Our prospects at a glance
Tariffs are financial penalties imposed on foreign goods and services, and these protect Aussies from unfair subsidised and third world products and services; and hence, jobs.
Australia is the only country in the world to substantially reduce its own tariffs; others, including the United States, have actually raised many of theirs considerably.
Why our major party politicians chose to remove these protection mechanisms is something they have yet to explain to Aussie voter’s satisfaction. Yet the impact on Australia has been the collapse of two thirds of family farms, and almost half of our manufacturing industries.
A catastrophic effect has been the destruction of the rural and regional economy, forcing a million Aussies to move to the major cities for jobs. This urban drift has, in turn, caused a crisis of over-population in state capital cities, the water catchments of which have always been inadequate for other than modest density administrative and commercial centres. This has been exacerbated by imprudently high intake of migrants and refugees.
Meanwhile, shrinking rural finance has precipitated insolvency of regional local councils, enabling increasingly dictatorial state premiers to commence incremental elimination of the third tier of democratic government, forming unaccountable giant corporations in place of local government.
The deep erosion of manufacturing has led to massive unemployment and under-employment affecting the lives of 3 million workers and their families, with a dramatic decline in Australian prosperity, which was at its world-renowned peak during the 1950s and 1960s; ironically and very significantly, also the period of peak trade union activity and influence. The unions were worker's only protection.
Is this disaster reversible? Yes it is. Through one simple measure. The Australian people can require the Federal Government to restore tariff protection and, hence, a return to prosperity. However, before we help launch the tariff restoration strategy, we need to glance at the misrepresentations presented by the media and by government, and appreciate the devastating impact of tariff removal.
Unemployment: If we are foolish enough to believe Australia’s two major political parties, national unemployment is 4%. Few Australians believe this and independent studies reveal the more obvious reality; that unemployment is currently verging on 21%. Independent studies use the historical standard definition of employment, which is a job that pays a liveable wage. Both Nelson and Rudd employ the spurious and immoral definition that we are employed if we study, train or work for one hour per week; hence their absurdly distorted statistics.
As for Government’s much vaunted Era of Prosperity, independent studies (AIA) show 54% of Aussies are suffering declining health on incomes of under $15,000 per year. Lack of medical and dental care is killing them in slow motion. 68% of Aussies earn less than $29,000. The Government’s “average income” figures are driven upwards more than 100% by CEOs luxuriating on $million incomes.
Tariff restoration will re-establish farming within three years, and manufacturing in two. Together, these will absorb all unemployment inside four years. Moreover, the environmentally damaging and water wasting foreign-owned giant agri-business sector (cotton and rice) would be forced to become accountable. Clearly, tariffs are Green.
Coastal city water crisis:Australia, as a continent, cannot continue to slavishly copy the European model of settlement; with 90% of our national population residing in cities. Our rainfall simply cannot sustain it, and our city water catchments are inadequate. Tariffs will encourage widespread population redistribution to rural and regional centres and thereby eliminate the urban water crisis. Tariffs are Green and Clean.
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