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Gillard: Austerity by Any Other Name
by baz Monday, Apr 29 2013, 9:22am
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The reviled and extraordinarily INCOMPETENT Oz PM, Juliar Gillard, recently hinted at European style austerity measures for Australia in her latest press release, which is an extremely unusual/revealing turn of events considering her previous promises and the status of Australia as an extremely wealthy nation.
Corporate lackeys, Gillard and Treasurer, Swan
Austerity is understandable for bludging Greeks, Poms, Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Irish and a host of other European non-substantial economy nations, but Oz remains one of the largest suppliers of resources in the world and the Transnationals exploiting OUR mineral wealth have never seen higher profits BUT Gillard, a known Washington and CORPORATE LACKEY, is about to SLUG the PUBLIC with severe cutbacks (austerity) for HER economic FAILURES/shortfalls -- put simply she FAILED to adequately TAX the Transnationals that have been raping the nation of its FINITE resource wealth.
Now here’s a priceless statement from the mouth of that reprehensible sell-out bitch herself, ‘everyone has to cover their share of the burden,’ which simply means the people, not the corporations will be slugged, remember how EASILY the corporations avoided the “burden" of the mining tax! Readers will also note that the people are now required to foot the shortfall bill when they didn’t ‘share’ in the profits and other benefits of the resource boom -- which continued for almost 20 years!
In view of the historical fact that big business, the Banks and Corporations, have never seen it so good in Australia it would seem entirely inappropriate to introduce AUSTERITY measures but that is exactly what Gillard has been instructed to do and what we know about her is that she unreservedly obeys unrepresentative minority elites rather than serve the best interests of the people -- I still wonder how it is she hasn’t been shot by an equal opportunity, non-sexist assassin; she is unquestionably the most reviled woman in Australian history!
Now recall former PM Rudd’s monumental gaffe, to paraphrase, ‘after we win office we won’t have to do anything;’ meaning non-representative Plutocrats and Big Business will dictate policy and make all the decisions -- well, NOTHING has changed regardless of whether it’s Rudd, Gillard or Abbott (more on him later) in office.
Gillard is simply implementing what mega-wealthy Plutocrats dictate, she has nothing to lose as the election is ALREADY LOST. Now to Abbott who will win the next election by default and by the assurance of Oz Plutocrats, Murdoch and iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart -- here’s the policies (courtesy of GetUp) the Plutocrats have planned for Abbott:
Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
Abolish the Department of Climate Change
Abolish the Clean Energy Fund
Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
Abandon Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council
Repeal the renewable energy target
Return income taxing powers to the states
Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission
Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
Repeal the National Curriculum
Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums
Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be ‘balanced’
Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
End local content requirements for Australian television stations
Eliminate family tax benefits
Abandon the paid parental leave scheme
Means-test Medicare
End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
Introduce voluntary voting
End mandatory disclosures on political donations
End media blackout in final days of election campaigns
End public funding to political parties
Remove anti-dumping laws
Eliminate media ownership restrictions
Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board
Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
Cease subsidising the car industry
Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games
Deregulate the parallel importation of books
End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws
Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP
Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit
Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database
Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food
Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities
Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools
Repeal the alcopops tax
Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:
a) Lower personal income tax for residents
b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers
c) Encourage the construction of dams
Repeal the mining tax
Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states
Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold
Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent
Cease funding the Australia Network
Privatise Australia Post
Privatise Medibank
Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function
Privatise SBS
Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
Repeal the Fair Work Act
Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them
Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors
Abolish the Baby Bonus
Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant
Allow the Northern Territory to become a state
Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16
Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States
End all public subsidies to sport and the arts
Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport
End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering
Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification
Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship
Means test tertiary student loans
Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement
Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built
End all government funded Nanny State advertising
Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling
Privatise the CSIRO
Defund Harmony Day
Close the Office for Youth
Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme
How does it feel now Oz, does it hurt when you sit down?
Of course the SOLUTION is CLEAR; boycott the major bought parties and VOTE REPRESENTATIVE INDEPENDENTS into office at every election Federal and State.
Return Australia to its rightful owners, THE PEOPLE; restore democracy and share all national wealth and burdens equitably throughout society -- and while we’re at it, are there any equal opportunity assassins out there?
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/embrace-the-pain-20130429-2ip0g.html
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