# 64 Bad Gov

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#660000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>     Welcome to (Tony Pitt's) National Interest Newspaper's website</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>                                     </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><B>  </B></FONT><B> VITAL TO SAVING OUR COUNTRY FOR OUR CHILDREN.</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=5 BGCOLOR="#003366" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I># 64 Bad Gov</I><I>    </I><A HREF="index_map__3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Welcome to (Tony Pitts) National Intere"><U><I> </I></U></A><A HREF="index_map__3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Welcome to (Tony Pitts) National Intere"><U><I> </I></U></A><A HREF="index_map__3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Welcome to (Tony Pitts) National Intere"><U><U>Bad Government Summary</U></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="summary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>         <A HREF="index_map__3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Welcome to (Tony Pitts) National Intere"><U>  </U></A><A HREF="index_map__3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Welcome to (Tony Pitts) National Intere"><U><B><U>Back to Map #3</U></B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> The Bad Government of Australia</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 2120 WIDTH="598"><div> Instead of warning the Australian people that we were being pushed around by multinational corporations, swindled by international bankers, dictated to by the UN, and bought out by foreigners, the political parties that have governed Australia for the past thirty years have actually co-operated in the process. More than just bad government, that amounts to treachery ! </div> <div> Defence</div> <div> The major parties are actively working toward general and complete disarmament of Australia while Asia arms at an alarming rate. </div> <div> Finance</div> <div> The major parties have a bipartisan approach to the sellout of our assets, resources and land. They plunge us into irrational debt. As an example, we borrow to give $1.3 billion to Thailand so Thailand can buy $200 million helicopter gunships, $250 million worth of Harrier jump jets and a $300 million aircraft carrier.. </div> <div> Law</div> <div> Our laws and safeguards once hinged on the Common Law and the statutory laws written and reaffirmed in the Magna Carta 1297, Habeas Corpus 1640, and the Bill of Rights 1688. Now, the major parties no longer hold these laws as enactments to be observed and obeyed. The Queen of Australia does not even comment. </div> <div> Society</div> <div> Decisions on treatment of Aborigines sow the seeds for civil war. The major parties espouse multiculturalism, but have not even achieved a reconciliation with the original Australians ! A republic already brought in by stealth without the knowledge or approval of the people poses a similar threat to our society. </div> <div> Summary</div> <div> Australia is becoming a place where it is not nice to live. We have plunged from the highest standard of living in the world to 23rd, then 30th. </div> <div> Rampant crime, youth suicide, unemployment, inflation and poverty in one of the most richly endowed nations on earth - </div> <div> Disarmament and immigration policies bordering on national suicide - </div> <div> These are the issues this web site is about. If you don't care; don't want to know; don't want to cure the problem, then don't read on. On the other hand, if you want to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, then please arm yourself with some of the facts: </div> <div> Aged Pension Swindle</div> <div> In the seventies the Liberals took the contents of the Age Pension Trust Account to which my generation paid 7.5% of our income to give us all the Age Pension (and we all still pay it). They now take another 9% to give us "superannuation". They sold at least one super scheme to the French and spent the money. They propose to buy back the farm, pay off the national debt, and still have money to keep us in retirement. They can't even count. </div> <div> Sellout</div> <div> Politicians destroyed nearly all Australian industry by removing tariff protection. They were not smart enough to do it selectively, keeping the more essential industries that could have kept our workforce usefully employed. What was not destroyed was privatised (sold to foreign interests). Our minerals, timber, oil and fishing are foreign owned. They sell our hospitals, roads, bridges, jails, Qantas, our shipping line, Telstra, airports, the Snowy Mountain Authority, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the electricity grid, Commonwealth Bank railways, resorts, public utilities, even some water supplies, and Australia Post is next. Were you ever asked? </div> <div> According to AUSTRADE, this is how much of our enterprise has been transferred to foreign interests: </div> <div> Processed Food 95%,</div> <div> Motor Vehicles 100%, </div> <div> Pharmaceuticals 100%,</div> <div> Confectionery & Beverages 84%, </div> <div> Manufacturing 57%, </div> <div> Building Materials 88%</div> <div> Mining 97%, </div> <div> Electrical 98%,</div> <div> Banking 86%,</div> <div> Chemicals 98%, </div> <div> Insurance 82%,</div> <div> Hotels 75%, </div> <div> Oil/Gas 92%. What do you think is going to happen when it's all gone? </div> <div> To speed the sellout, our pollies let banks change existing loan contracts (in retrospect and in direct contravention of Contract Law) to push bank interest up to 20% and even 30% knowing the people would be unable to pay. They couldn't. The banks foreclosed. Bank assets went from $87 billion to $382 billion in five years (Australian Bureau of Statistics figures), $90,000 on average per income earning family. </div> <div> Now that interest rates are lower again the banks cry poor and raise charges. </div> <div> Given away !</div> <div> ALP/DEM/LIB/NAT pollies gave away our north west shelf oilfields, worth $250 billion in proven reserves, to Indonesia (AUST 7/9/88 AGE 9/9/88). The fields are all on the Australian continental shelf and there could have been no successful legal claim made against them (International Law - Forum Report 11/11/1978 ISBN 0 85847 048 9). That creamed off another $80,000 per income earning family. </div> <div> Aussie dollar slashed in value</div> <div> ALP/LIB/NAT/DEMOCRATS mismanagement of Australia's currency between 1966 to 1996, had the result that the value of our dollar was eroded by 97%, taking away 29/30ths of our savings, life assurance, and superannuation (Source: Commonwealth Year Books, Currency: Notes & Coins). One result of their stable government. </div> <div> Mineral royalties lost</div> <div> Even Australia's unmined minerals are not ours. Nearly all have been transferred to foreign owned mining conglomerates. We are not even going to get royalties. Once upon a time royalties from our minerals went to the government, and they used that money to provide services. </div> <div> In a two stage transfer, most royalties were eliminated. Step one was to transfer mineral rights to aborigines. Then came the tricky part. In exchange for a $3,000,000 binge on truck loads of lollies, soft drink, cigarettes and alcohol, the minerals rights were transferred to foreign interests ! Now, neither the aborigines nor the non-aborigines derive benefits in royalties, from what was once our mineral wealth, worth billions of dollars. The pollies then told us we needed a new tax: a GST. </div> <div> The GOLD sell-off</div> <div> The government just swapped $2,400 million in Australian gold reserves for some paper scrip that will become valueless anytime the international financiers so decide. The paper scrip came from the countries who live on our foreign aid money. The government says gold is no longer significant in international economics. Fools ! Why then were others snapping up our gold reserves? </div> <div> My generation carried real guns to keep Australia safe. Today's pollies leave the soldiers of this generation deliberately disadvantaged, armed with toys that melt down after a few rounds are fired. They will be slaughtered if ever they have to fight, leaving us as the front line. I am not afraid to fight an invader, but I object to Australian traitors and fools disarming us and leaving us defenceless, ruining our economy and preparing us for slavery. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><U>Tony Pitt</U></I></div> <bR> <div> <U>Freedom for Australia home page</U> </div> <div> Tony asks: If you find that you agree with a message presented on this site, please print it out: photocopy it until you run out of paper, then give a copy to each of your friends and neighbours not yet lucky enough to have the Internet !</div> <div> ===================================================</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><U>Self-serving Parties</U></FONT> <A NAME="parties"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><U> </U>                      <B> </B><B><U>Back to Map # 3</U></B></div> <div>                                                                      </div> <div> Self Serving Political Parties and Dills for Politicians in Australia</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 7081 WIDTH="598"><div> Pollies up to their curly tails in the trough of our tax money</div> <div> If you read the READER'S DIGEST January 1997 you may have seen "Australia's Outrageous Parliamentary Pensions" by Paul Rafaele. This article gives an insight into just how low our thieving politicians will stoop to line their own pockets, while they are in parliament and after. </div> <div> Convicted rapist Keith Wright was sprung before he was eligible for superannuation. His mates worked the law so he got his loot before he got his deserts. Wright paid $50,000 into the super scheme from 1984 to 1993 (about $5,500 per year). Keith is now eligible for an annual pension of $43,000 a year for life (fully indexed to inflation of course). If he lives another 30 years he will have raked in $1,290,000 in return for his $50,000 investment. </div> <div> Joan Kirner got $240,000 super payout and claimed another $360,000 more citing ill health. When the $360,000 was knocked back she already had a cushy government job raking in $104,000 a year in the Employment Services Authority. </div> <div> Michael Lavarch paid in $82,000 in nine years. He and his wife will reap about $2,500,000. </div> <div> These cases illustrate the cozy superannuation arrangements our parliamentarians have made for themselves. And what service does the nation get from them in return? </div> <div> Instead of warning the Australian people that we were being pushed around by multinational corporations, swindled by international bankers, dictated to by the UN, and bought out by foreigners, the political parties that have governed Australia for the past thirty years have actually co-operated in the process. </div> <div> An Independent Paliamentarian's view of travel rorts:</div> <div> In a speech that Australia's mass media largely managed to avoid reporting, a parliamentarian elected independent of the major parties had this to say: </div> <div> "Fellow Australians, </div> <div> "Too much of our country has been sold, indeed much of it has been given away. </div> <div> "You may ask what is our government doing? </div> <div> "Well for the last ten days they have tried to score points on each other by each trying to label the other as the bigger thief in the travel rorts scandal. </div> <div> "While I would be the first to acknowledge the need for accountability, that has not been the substance of the debate. Rather it has all focussed on petty political point scoring that has shown both Liberal and Labor for the distracted and self seeking traitors they are. </div> <div> : "It is worth noting one Sydney Newspaper's report which cited that while this bullying and bickering was going on, our foreign debt rose 765 million, 540 small businesses went broke, 1500 full-time jobs disappeared, 60 women died of breast cancer and 58 Australians committed suicide. </div> <div> "Ask what the Liberals and Labor are doing. </div> <div> "I can tell you they are doing nothing other than looking after themselves and their pensions. </div> <div> "The government tells us we are lucky to have so much foreign investment because of the jobs the multinationals provide, but is that the future the government approves of for our children - that they will work for the profit of foreigners - will that be all they have? </div> <div> "There is an argument for foreign investment, there is no argument for foreign control. </div> <div> "We have so much in this country, and yet our government trades away our inheritance for a place on the International Stage. </div> <div> "We have nearly a million people unemployed, probably another million under-employed and over seven hundred thousand children living in families where neither parent has a job but despite this and our rising foreign debt, our government can still find 1.4 billion dollars to give away in foreign aid just in this year alone. </div> <div> "We must put Economic Nationalism back on the agenda. </div> <div> "The so called level playing field of free trade cannot be successfully applied between countries with vastly different standards of living. </div> <div> "If the government insists on pursuing these policies of Economic Rationalism our standard of living will continue to fall and unemployment will continue to rise. </div> <div> "Australia cannot compete with cheap foreign workforces. </div> <div> "Australian workers cannot compete with countries whose workers are paid forty cents an hour or a few dollars a day. </div> <div> "Without Nationalistic policies to foster and protect Australian Industry and Manufacturing the Australian worker will be a thing of the past and any suggestion they will be retrained into high technology jobs is a nonsense; those jobs don't exist, and won't exist. </div> <div> "We must come to terms with the fact we need a diversity of industry to provide the types of jobs that will cover the varying levels of skill. </div> <div> "We must acknowledge that not every person will go to university, and if they did, there simply wouldn't be enough tertiary skills related jobs to go around. </div> <div> "The current policy of educating people into jobs doesn't work because the jobs don't exist. </div> <div> "All we are doing is making education a competitive component for jobseekers to contend with, as jobs that were once taken by high school graduates are now the property of those with university degrees. </div> <div> "Many of our unemployed simply do courses that lead to other courses, and nowhere else. </div> <div> "Unemployment is not just a single issue but in fact the issue that causes so much of the stress and strain in our society leading to substance abuse, crime, family breakdown and suicide. </div> <div> "The long term unemployed, young people in particular, are faced with such hopelessness they turn to avenues of escape secure citizens would never consider. </div> <div> "We must re-vitalise apprenticeships and make young Australians understand it is OK to be a carpenter or a mechanic or a plumber or to pursue any trade. </div> <div> "It is OK to be bank teller or a council worker or a bus driver. </div> <div> "The most important thing is to have a job because that is a start. </div> <div> "You must have a start and from there how far you go is up to you, but you must have a start. </div> <div> "The dole will lead nowhere. A job will allow you a base from which to launch your life. </div> <div> "More and more Australian companies are being sold or moving overseas because they can no longer compete. </div> <div> "This has to stop. </div> <div> "Those lost jobs cannot be replaced under current government policies - policies that have devastated our country and ruined countless Australians' lives for at least the last twenty five years. </div> <div> "We must get Australia working again, and we can only do this by re-juvinating industry, manufacturing and the rural sector. </div> <div> "We must get off the level playing field as we are the only ones on it. </div> <div> "The rest of the world is laughing at us as we sell them our land, give them our jobs, and then send them foreign aid. </div> <div> "What fools we have been; what fools we are." </div> <div> Pauline Hanson </div> <div> "Good payment is needed to attract capable people into parliament"</div> <div> Whenever remuneration for politicians is mentioned they are quick to claim the necessity for paying well to attract capable people into parliament. Well, we have been paying well for long enough, and the only <STRIKE>capable people</STRIKE> dills we have attracted to parliament have been the same ones who have destroyed our manufacturing industries, run down our defences, sold our assets, exported our jobs, and mortgaged us to foreign financiers to get enough money to maintain an illusion that we have never had it so good. </div> <div> How gullible they must think we are ! </div> <div> These people steal by holding up their hand to vote for unearned income. A tribe of blindly loyal party faithful keep preselecting an endless supply of knaves and thieves for the major parties that have monopolised both sides of parliament for too long. Are the party faithful paying any attention to the performance of their candidates in parliament or simply being fooled by their charisma and rhetoric? Until we wake these dills and show them what has happened to a once great and well governed nation they will keep doing what they have always done and we will keep on getting what we get now. </div> <div> Deserting Labor, Liberals & Nationals</div> <div> Leaving these groups is not "deserting". They left you years ago. </div> <div> Tony Pitt says: </div> <div> "The major parties have been stacking branches, rigging preselection and promoting incompetents for so long there are few left with guts or brains. The top is so rotten the parties can never become good again without a substantial period out of office during which they reflect on their mistakes. </div> <div> "The branches and members of all major parties have a lot of thinking to do. I would suggest they write to head office and say, "If the party does not stop the level playing field rubbish, multiculturalism, Aborigine guilt industry, sex-discrimination, privatisation, globalism and disarmament nonsense right now, we are leaving and we're taking the whole branch with us." </div> <div> "Be prepared to leave because the Howard, Costello, Fischer, Crean, Despoia crew cannot change direction. They just do as they are told. The policies are made overseas. Everyone involved knows that but won't admit it. </div> <div> "Those in control of the parties today are the exact opposite of the leaders they had back in the good old days not so many years ago. If you can remember back that far, you will know that was the time when the Liberal, Country, and Labor parties were building the Snowy Mountains scheme, the Commonwealth Bank, our national airlines, railways, telephone and electricity systems that the modern day vandals have been selling. </div> <div> Tony asks: If you find that you agree with a message presented on this site, please print it out: photocopy it until you run out of paper, then give a copy to each of your friends and neighbours not yet lucky enough to have the Internet !</div> <div> ==================================================</div> <div> Foreign Control of Australia by                 <B><U>  Back to Map #3</U></B></div> <div> Greedy Banks and Big Business</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 776 WIDTH="598"><div> Like self serving mainstream politicians for years before them the Howard, Fischer, Crean, Despoia crew cannot change direction. <B>They just do as they are told. The important policies are made overseas. Everyone involved knows that but won't admit it.</B> </div> <div> In parliament it is only the occasional independent who dares tell the truth.</div> <div> Free from the influence of major party minders trying to keep them toeing the party line, independents are free to represent their electorates instead of parties, and to explain why <U>the major parties govern in ways that are so clearly anti-Australian</U>. </div> <div> <B>If only the people will listen they will occasionally hear the truth.</B> It's difficult sometimes to hear a lonely voice above the character assassination propaganda of the major parties, as mouthed by their accomplices in the mainstream media. But to the truly aware, a concerted character assassination campaign can be a good pointer as to <U>who is worth listening to</U>. </div> <div> Where is the proof of foreign control?</div> <div> The perpetrators have not confessed, and there has been no court case, so you need to search around a bit to reach a convincing conclusion. </div> <div> Consider this: If you have ever worked for a boss you will understand that your boss has considerable control over you because he controls your money supply. Once you know who controls Australia's money supply you will know who has considerable control over Australia. <B>Amazingly, it is not the government, but foreign bankers !</B> </div> <div> <B>If you knew that </B><B><U>the United States of America is controlled by foreign bankers</U></B><B> would you find it easier to believe that Australia is, too?</B> </div> <div> A little website shedding light on this matter is <U>How Money is Created in Australia</U>.</div> <div> For a different account of America's problems see <U>Taxes and the Federal Reserve</U>. </div> <div> <B>As for big business:</B> (also owned by the bankers) </div> <div> "First, through lobbying and industry political contributions, the rules of the legal game are written by industry insiders, lobbyists, and political contributors in the back rooms of Congress and legislatures across the U.S. Citizen groups have little political influence because they cannot compete financially with Political Action Committees controlled by major corporations and industry associations and only have the power of public disclosure to counter-balance the significant control that business has over the legislative drafting process." writes the eminent American attorney, Richard Alexander, Esq. in <U>The Consumer Law Page</U>. </div> <div> If the situation is different in Australia in anything but scale there is no evidence of it. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> I rest my case. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Tony asks:</B> If you find that you agree with a message presented on this site, please print it out<B>:</B> photocopy it until you run out of paper, then give a copy to each of your friends and neighbours not yet lucky enough to have the Internet !</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div>          </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="602" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 3528 WIDTH="598"><bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>