Early and evasive action: The ABC

As Ross Cameron was a bike-riding friend of Tony Abbott, I rang him just before the 2013 election pleading with Ross to pass one piece of advice from me when Tony was elected as Prime Minister.

‘You must get Tony, immediately after he is elected, to sell 51 per cent of the ABC! If he doesn’t, those biased, venomous pests will bring him down.’

Maybe it was the Lycra and the static that prevented that key message from hitting home, but Abbott failed to capitalise on his electoral honeymoon period by leaving the ABC untouched.

Sure enough, they contributed greatly to his demise.

For any political party to garnish the support of a $1.3 billion dollar marketing machine, is a huge advantage. The ABC is blatantly pro-Labor, pro-greens, and openly anti-mining, anti-farming, anti-Australian and is well overdue to be cut loose from the public purse. I calculated that $44.50 of my annual personal tax went to the ABC, and after 25 years of abysmal performance from this organisation, this $1,113 could have been better spent on charity donations.

So, Jacinta, please get rid of this waste of money as a priority…

Repeal 75 per cent of the EPA regulation

Anyone in small or medium businesses in regional Australia will tell you, that Green tape is the biggest handbrake on our existing and potential economy.

Don’t believe me? Just scan a map of the nation that highlights the areas under national parks, sensitive habitats, restricted fisheries, wetlands, etc. in other words, ‘DEVELOPMENT NO GO’ areas, and you will likely have close to a full map of the country.

The EPA restrictions on dredging, for example, repeatedly exacerbate flooding during storm events, killing residents, and destroying towns annually. The ban on dredging has halted navigability of our river systems that was common 100 years ago, and still is the cheapest form of transport by a country mile.

Now that we have uncovered the fact that the Greens were never interested in the environment and more interested in bringing our nation down, the trail of obstructive EPA regulations left behind, should be repealed.

Lift the bans on nuclear, coal, and gas

By now, most Australians, including alien life forms from other galaxies, would have woken up to the fact that Chris Bowen is a goose. Not just an ordinary goose, but a dangerous goose who is single-handedly destroying our economy by subsidising Chinese renewables, resuming our limited arable farmland while bulldozing EPA standards, and ignoring the disastrous consequences that have already hit Europe and UK by their blind following of the Pied Piper renewable policies.

Every other country on the planet would consider themselves extremely lucky if they were blessed with the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of uranium, thorium, coal, and gas that Australia has. Bowen considers these huge assets as liabilities and thinks that other nations dropping renewables from their energy grid is ‘their loss’. This confirms my suspicion that somebody dropped this poor fellow on his head at some point during his life.

These bans should be lifted immediately, Nuclear Engineering University courses should be restarted, and we should catch up with the production of MMRs and SMRS as most other nuclear nations are doing. Every house and business in our Nation needs cheap and reliable energy.

Revitalise coastal shipping and install mini-ports

This should be implemented immediately and run concurrently after the repealing of EPA regulations around our whole coastline.

Allowing 1,300 Australians to die and seriously injuring 18,000 per annum in coastal road accidents is not clever. Adding the huge cost of road maintenance, road congestion, and road maintenance totals around $50 billion a year according to ABSTATS. Replicating Europe’s ‘Motorways of the Seas’ program would see 60 per cent of trucks come off coastal roads within two years, and a proportional reduction in road cost issues. So, we could easily save a lot of lives and at least $25bn per annum.

Mini ports should be placed every 75 kms along the coast north of Brisbane right around to Geraldton. At the moment, our port spacing is every 700 kms (for context Gujarat ports are every 53 kms and UK every 65 kms). This will encourage regional commercial activity and provide berths for the expected increase in the number of defence vessels.

Eliminate employment disincentives

Payroll tax, together with the latest round of union-based industrial laws, are a massive deterrent against the growth of businesses small and large. The socialist playbook is to penalise effort and reward laziness. These disincentives should be eliminated immediately and people who want to work hard should be rewarded and encouraged.

Adopt visionary projects

We have had a single lack of vision over the Albanese leadership and we know that where there is no vision, the people perish. Just look at our soaring mental health issues and costs.

The Bradfield Scheme, inland waterways and new regional cities, are amongst many projects that have been shelved by small-thinking, bean-counter scrooge attitudes within the burgeoning bureaucracies.

I came to Queensland to start my business when a visionary Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen abolished death duties and boosted development throughout the State. This action, together with business commencement grants and project grants, encouraged investment and innovation particularly from the powerhouse of ideas, small business. For three years now under this ALP leadership, we never heard, ‘Oh that’s a good idea!’ Once, not once!

National Service

Compulsory National Service should be implemented within our 18-20 age group, together with skills training. For sure they need to learn some discipline, respect, and values. Look at the countries with National Service, you will see that their people are of a high calibre.

Immigration

Revert to an assimilation policy system, as Australia used to have in the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, migrants had to assimilate or they weren’t accepted. We are currently witnessing the failure of multiculturalism worldwide, and people are bringing their hatreds and prejudices to their new chosen land. It doesn’t work, as we’re seeing these days in our own country.

Legal system

Implement much tougher legal penalties like Singapore and China. Hate speech should attract five years jail minimum mandatory sentence and the death penalty should be re-introduced. We need deterrents that assist law and order.

Donald Trump could help Australia achieve the above within 2-3 days. Despite his shortcomings, I totally admire his passion, loyalty, and pride in his country and his energy to achieve as much as he can in the limited remaining years of his life. Too many of our politicians lack both energy and passion, enjoying perks while just warming a seat.

Greatness can only be achieved with passion.