WHITE PAPER - AUSTRALIAʼS CORE VALUES

Equality for All - Rights to education, health, worship
The individual right to choose career, partner, course of study
Commitment to respect and protect Citizens
Commitment to a democratic society
Belief in a free enterprise, laissez faire economy
Commitment to the rule of law and undertaking to act lawfully
Acknowledgement of marriage as two adult people of any gender in a relationship of
equality
Responsibility not to incite hatred or violence
Belief in society providing care for the Genuinely Disadvantaged
Belief in the direct correlation between contribution and entitlements, for all but the
Genuinely Disadvantaged
Acknowledgment of both rights and responsibilities
Employers and employees to demonstrate mutual care
Rejection of any individual, organisation or religion which promotes a restriction of the
rights of Citizens

CITIZENS AND THE GENUINELY DISADVANTAGED
Citizenship bestows benefits which are unavailable to non-citizens;
Citizenship is bestowed at birth;
Citizenship may be suspended or cancelled;
Temporary or Probationary Citizenship may be bestowed on refugees and immigrants who
otherwise meet the requirements of Citizenship;
A Citizen who is Genuinely Disadvantaged becomes a Protected Citizen, either temporarily
or permanently depending on the nature of the Disadvantage, subject to otherwise
meeting the reasonable requirements of Citizenship;
The Genuinely Disadvantaged may include the young, the elderly, and the physically or
mentally disabled.

Rules of Citizenship:
A Citizen who is convicted of a criminal offence will have their Citizenship suspended;
A Citizen who is convicted of treason, a major criminal offence, or a series of criminal
offences, will have their Citizenship revoked;
A Temporary or Probationary Citizen who is charged with a criminal offence will have their
Citizenship suspended;
A Temporary or Probationary Citizen who is convicted of a criminal offence will have their
Citizenship revoked, and will be repatriated to their country of origin;

Definition of a Citizen:
A Citizen is one who seeks to exhibit good character, and consideration for all other
Citizens; who acknowledges the direct correlation between contribution and entitlements;
who recognises the need to care for the Genuinely Disadvantaged; who declares and
practices respect for other Citizens; who respects and honours the rule of law and the
tenets of justice; who promotes and practices equality amongst genders and races; who
understand that the role as Citizen exceeds personal religious convictions;

Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities
I hereby commit:
To be a Citizen;
To honour the Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities;
To live with honour and decency;
To contribute positively to society to the best of my ability;
To the pursuit of justice;
To the pursuit of peaceful resolution;
To government elected by the majority of adult Citizens of sound mind;
To the right of every adult Citizen of sound mind to vote by secret ballot;
To the right of every adult Citizen of sound mind to worship;
To equality between all races and genders of Citizens;
To the elimination of poverty amongst all Citizens;
To the protection of all Citizens from persecution;
To the protection of young, weak, sick, infirm, and elderly Citizens;
To the right of every Citizen to education, health care, employment and physical protection;
To the right of every Citizen to have freedom of speech without persecution;
To actively support and welcome the success of all Citizens who commit to and honour
The Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities.
The Rights of a Citizen
The right to reside in the Country
The right to live freely
The right to be employed or self employed
The right to personal choice in the pursuit of career, partner, religion, or course of study
The right to be protected by a democratic system of government, supported by the
doctrine of the separation of powers
The right to participate in the nomination and selection of candidates for members of
parliament
The right to vote at public elections and referenda by secret ballot
The right to receive a public education
The right to choose, at cost, private education
The right to receive high quality public medical care
The right to choose, at cost, private medical care
The right to live in safety and free of oppression

Justin is doing the rounds in his bid for election in Lyons, presenting his views to the folks of New Norfolk and central Tasmania. We had a brief but interesting discussion on politics, health, education, and his passion to serve his community.

For those interested in learning more about Justin, you might select this link: https://tas.liberal.org.au/our-team/justin-derksen

The following is a personal opinion piece from Michael Reid, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of ClubMaster.

Our modern democratic political systems have been structured based on almost ancient principles and assumptions.

The representation system has been essential in previous centuries, caused by limitations primarily in education and communication.

By their nature, or more accurately by human nature, the representation system has become bloated, inefficient, and non-representative of the communities they claim to represent.

I have argued for decades that the Australian political structure is more bloated than most, given these three fat and expensive tiers of government are representing less than 28 million people. 

As someone with a habit of bloating my own corporate structures in establishing and developing business ventures, it pains me to acknowledge that our current political structure is clearly a nonsense.

Fast forward to 2022, and we now enjoy, in almost every democratic society of the World, extremely high levels of education, and almost unlimited access to communication. To my great dismay, I have witnessed in recent decades the deliberate deterioration of education, invariably for political gain.

Now is the time to cease shuffling the deck chairs, and to embrace a fundamental change in the way decisions are made by and on behalf of the citizens.

Setting aside the risks posed by influence with ignorance, and the dangers posed by knee-jerk responses to social and other media bias, most citizens are genuinely community-minded.

The majority of the population are across many of the issues, and more than ever before are educated and intelligent.

Had political representatives remained truly representative of their community, and not been so prone to influence, corruption, and power-focus, the status quo may have been retained.

Instead, many now acknowledge that it’s time for truly structural reform, for a redefinition of community decision-making. Technology is the vehicle which enables this reform, alongside education and communication.

Whilst we’re at it, massive political structural reform needs to be accompanied by fundamental reforms of financial, taxation, and expenditure application.

My fervent wish for the future for Australia includes the following:

1. The reduction to two tiers of government, with expanded super-councils providing state representation, and with one mayor appointed by all mayors as Premier or Chief Minister in each respective State and Territory;
2. An increase in the term of governments to fixed four year terms;
3. The clear delineation between the roles of national and local government;
4. The establishment of national policies in areas of health, education, domestic security, licensing, national-state laws, defence, infrastructure, natural resource management, and international relations;
5. A significantly improved national identity, national culture, and definition of the Australian Citizen;
6. A world-leading Citizen identification and communication system;
7. The expansion of community decision-making across all aspects from portfolio policy to the priorities of public financial management;
8. The elimination of taxation returns, income tax, GST and BAS, and FBT, in return for an automatic debits tax (ADT);
9. The elimination of cash in order to facilitate the above new taxation regime;
10. The development of a Sovereign Wealth Fund with a view to ultimately eliminating the ADT within this century.

Democracies need to return to a focus on community, and to the value-add proposition. Non-democracies need to focus on becoming democracies.

Technology enables efficiency; efficiency eliminates waste of financial and other resources; reduced waste results in the redirection of resources, including human resources, into value adding; a direct debits tax and the redirection into adding value will help to eliminate parasite activities at all levels, being individual, commercial, and bureaucratic. A social order will ensure those who deserve protection are afforded protection with dignity.

At a personal level, I want to become more proud of my country. I want to feel safe, not just from “threats foreign and domestic” (to borrow from others), but also from undue interference foreign and domestic; I want my country to know every person who occupies the country; I want the country’s key assets to be owned by the Citizens of the Country; I want every Good Citizen to be protected and valued, and to be committed to their local, regional and National communities; and I want Australia to encourage and support all other nations to adopt and embrace similar strategies and philosophies.