- Means-test Medicare
- Eliminate family tax benefits
- Abandon the paid parental leave scheme
- Abolish the Baby Bonus
- Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant
- Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food
- Repeal the alcopops tax
- Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling
- Repeal the Fair Work Act
- Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them
- Introduce a single rate of income tax
- Return income taxing powers to the states
- Cut company tax to 25 per cent
- Cease subsidising the car industry
- Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board
- Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification
- End local content requirements for Australian television stations
- Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function
- Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states
- End mandatory disclosures on political donations
- End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
- Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built
- Privatise Australia Post, Medibank and SBS
- Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16
- Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
- Slash top public servant salaries
- Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database
- Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it (if it is replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone).
- Abolish the Department of Climate Change
- Abolish the Clean Energy Fund and repeal the renewable energy target
- Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
- Repeal the mining tax
- Privatise the CSIRO and the Snowy-Hydro Scheme
- Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission
- Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
- Means test tertiary student loans
- Repeal the National Curriculum
- Introduce competing private secondary school curricula
- Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities
- Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools
- Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
- Eliminate ‘balance’ laws for radio and television broadcasters
- Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
- Eliminate media ownership restrictions
- Cease funding the Australia Network
- Rule out government-supported or mandated internet censorship
- End public funding to political parties
- Introduce voluntary voting
- End media blackout in final days of election campaigns
- Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
- Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a % of GDP
- Legislate a balanced budget amendment which limits the size of budget deficits and the period the government can be in deficit
- Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement
- Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors
- End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering
- Remove all tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
- Remove anti-dumping laws
- Deregulate the parallel importation of books
- End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace laws
- Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport
- Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games
- End all public subsidies to sport and the arts
- Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
- End all government funded ‘Nanny State’ advertising
- De-fund Harmony Day and close the Office for Youth
- Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Allow the Northern Territory to become a state
- Introduce a special economic zone for northern Australia including:
a) Lower personal income tax for residents
b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers
c) Encourage the construction of dams.
Humour in the Morning – Cissie and Ada – At The Laundrette
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2 comments:
I'm in.
Let's charter a few flights for the flood of libertarians it would draw to Oz.
Oh, I nearly forgot. For every one of these admirable goals, there is more than an offsetting one at State level.
If one looks at the original constitution of the Commonwealth, most of the things listed are unconstitutional anyway. Mainly because as with most constitutions, they get drafted by libertarians. [Not NZ though if present intentions come to fruition.]
Why does Curren not return to Australia, from whence she came, and continue the work she did with the Australian Communist Party, of which I understand she was a member.
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