I’m not that keen on how their leader promotes himself, but he might be an MP soon. My thoughts in red.
1. A new 21st Century political system where voters get to vote directly on major policies instead of politicians. YES
2. Government spending removed from the hands of politicians and placed in the hands of an independent board, similar to how interest rate settings are set by the independent Reserve Bank of Australia. YES, as long as we vote on board members
3. A new modern day 21st century education curriculum to replace our current 19th century industrialisation era education system. One that is based on practical real life education with financial education as a necessity. Achieve a world leading education model without needing one extra cent of revenue and ensure the quality and pay of teachers is increased due to their significant importance in society from efficiency gains
4. The establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund to create an economic buffer. We already have the Future Fund…
5. Eliminate state governments so we have only two levels of government and not three. Therefore, critical areas such as health, education, transport and infrastructure will be under one national system. States could have state appointed ministers to look after the interest of the states. This will potentially save billions per month. It will eliminate gross inefficiencies of various state bodies overlapping and duplicating several layers of government bodies. Moreover, it will also ensure fewer elections. Keep the states, but hand over everything that has no need for being regional – like hospitals.
6. Review of the carbon tax and an environment policy whereby 100% of proceeds go direct to renewable energy funds. We support a healthy economy and a healthy environment.
7. Mining tax replaced with a simple Federal Royalty Tax that isn’t a significant burden with all proceeds going to a Sovereign Wealth Fund or Infrastructure Fund. Trees too!
8. Turn Australia Post into a bank to add competition to the big four banks and provide discounted home loans to Australians. YES! I have been saying this for a long time. Other countries have this, it can’t be hard to do.
9. Changes made to revise the power of corrupt unions and to reduce their abilities to abuse their power and cause further damage to national interests. Move unions to be under the ASIC and treated the same as corporate Australia plus ensuring unions pay tax. Laws should prevent them from interfering with Australian democratic system along with the limiting of funds by unions to support any political party and prevent the exploitation of workers.
10. The introduction of a fee for immigration visas to raise potentially $15 billion per annum and to reduce people smugglers business by removing the financial incentives by desperate people to pay people smugglers. There’s already fees…
11. Removal or reduction of payroll tax for companies with less than 200 employees, which accounts for almost 70% of the businesses in Australia. This will also stimulate job creation. Yes
12. Ban cigarette sales for those born in the year 2000 onwards to reduce the huge health liabilities smoking causes and ensure health education is a priority in the school curriculum to deal with obesity and other diet related issues. Totally agree, have been saying the same myself
13. Run a smart efficient productive government so as to create savings to reinvest into better services .By lowering certain taxes to stimulate growth we can actually increase total tax revenue. How?
14. Increase the tax free threshold to $22,500 p.a. We think it’s critical to give a boost to low income earners in Australia, a more productive way then creating welfare dependency via wealth distribution. Yes.
15. Remove contribution tax on superannuation for low income workers from 15% to nil. Helping all Australians become self-sufficient in retirement should be a priority and combined with proper financial education this can be achieved. Yes. Super should be optional, with incentives.
16. Look at ways to increase tax revenue to provide better services from taxes that don’t affect or penalise Australians. One example is a Visa tax, by offering a paid Visa to all qualifying immigrants including boat people. Boat people don’t have money…
17. Lower the company tax rate by creating a tiered tax rate starting at 15% for small business under $250,000 profit and up to 28.5% for profits over $100 million. Yes.
18. Provide Australia with a value for money National Broadband Network (NBN) that can be installed sooner and save $15 – $20 billion. I’m happy with the current one.
19. More water storage. In Australia drought in many areas is a perennial problem, so why not set a short- to long-term target of 100 new dams for Australia in the most environmentally friendly way.
20. Build a high speed rail system to take congestion off the roads, which are expensive to build and maintain. Initially starting from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, Newcastle to Canberra via Sydney and Geelong to Melbourne to Bendigo via Ballarat. This could also help Australia move into the 21st Century. Been in the works for a long time, now is the time to get started.
21. Turn Northern Australia into a special economic zone. Northern Australia is a perfect spot for an economic zone to boost Australia’s wealth. This would see lower taxes for workers and companies to move and live in these regions and start businesses. Stamp Duty relief also for home buyers in these regions to help solve the high cost of housing and to provide much needed workers. Yes. And send all boat people there. Give them work. Let them prove they are worthy of citizenship by working and learning English.
22. A dramatic overhaul of the health industry to squeeze dramatic health service gains via innovation and technology without needing one extra cent of revenue to deliver. How? I propose a wellness model – doctors get paid (in part) based on how healthy they are keeping us.
23. To overhaul dole payments that after 90 days recipients must attend specialised career upskilling courses to receive further funding and improve their skills to help solve Australia’s skilled worker shortage and increase productivity so everyone feels they can contribute to the nations success.
24. Equip every student with new technology for learning such as iPads or tablets at school and access to leading edge learning apps to ensure we use technology to deliver better quality education for less cost to leave our 19th century education system behind.
25. Make the government transparent and declare all government taxes in sales of products and services. So as an example when you purchase fuel that taxes charged are shown clearly for consumers to see. Yes. We are paying it, we should know.
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