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One Nation has endorsed Mathew Keizer of Lobethal to contest the Mayo By-Election on the 6th September 2008.

Mathew is aged 36, born in Adelaide and moved to the Adelaide Hills in 2001. Mathew is a family man, with partner Charmaine and three children. Mathew is employed as a Domestic Community support worker helping South Australian Veterans that live in their own homes in the Adelaide Hills.

Mathew is concerned about the high cost of fuel and how this is having a heavy financial burden on all Australians.

When elected Mathew will pursue all issues that effect families. He will work to restore the manufacturing industry in Australia and stop the import of food so our own primary producers can survive.

The current water crises is a real concern, and Mathew will vigorously pursue the Murray - Darling (Rivers) issue to ensure that South Australia receives its share of the water flow.

I am well aware of our many pensioners who are struggling to make ends meet - I will be a strong voice in parliament to restore the pensions in line with the current cost of living.

I support Citizens Initiated Referenda as a system that allows all members of society to have a direct say in Government decision making. Representative Democracy only allows individuals or parties the right to decide for the rest of us.

One Nation believes in not only upholding the right but the need for all Australians to effectively raise debate on issues of concern and have the mechanism to democratically pursue those issues to produce an outcome of legislative change.

The current thinking by the Federal Government about how to reduce pollution of our atmosphere seems to be based on creating more costs for industry and the public instead of developing new ways to generate energy, according to One Nation’s State President in South Australia, Stan Batten.

It seemed as though the government believed that oil and coal were the only viable fuels that should be considered, both of which were fossils and substantially responsible for the pollution of our planet.

"The government’s solution to the problem, at this stage, seems to be to tell a foundry, for example, that it will be fined, in effect, for the amount of pollution it causes and that this penalty can be reduced by planting trees to absorb carbon in the atmosphere," Mr Batten said. "There is even talk of emissions trading where industry that causes pollution can buy credits from someone who has planted trees". "All this is artificial cost creation and presumably may also apply to farmers who have sheep and cattle which constantly release methane gas into the atmosphere, apart from the continuing effect of the world’s active volcanoes".

Mr Batten said the public was already being told that the cost of electricity and water would be rising as part of emissions trading to offset pollution. "There are numerous ways to create clean fuel for transport and for generating electricity such as bio fuels, solar heat, wind power, tidal movement, hot rock activity, nuclear power, atomic piles, recycled vegetable oil, gases like oxygen and hydrogen, methane and carbine gas and chemical techniques".

Mr Batten said the current political debate about reducing pollution seemed to be missing the point of how to stop it while increasing the cost of living for everyone, which was something to be avoided, especially if there was no benefit.

"Underlying this apparent misdirection and futility is the question of what government intends to do with all the pollution fines it seems to be thinking about, which have been estimated at around $20 billion annually".

Australia is locked into policies, strategies and laws that are sending the country backwards and there’s an increasingly desperate need for a political party of people able to understand what is happening and know what to do about it, according to One Nation’s South Australian State President, Stan Batten.

The cost of living continued to rise for various reasons and one consequence was that industry continued to relocate overseas for cheaper labour and this, in turn, reduced the number of jobs in Australia.

On the social side, Australia was producing an increasing number of dysfunctional families, which supplied a growing number of dysfunctional people with limited education, often on drugs and unemployable.

"This is part of the background to what is happening in Australia but the two major political parties, Liberal and Labor, seem unaware of what is happening and obviously don’t know what to do about it," Mr Batten said.

"Most people can see what is happening and I believe there are many people, either retired or running successful businesses, who could be united to form a political force big enough to win government and start repairing the damage to our society."

"I urge concerned people whose circumstances would allow them to become members of parliament to establish political contacts so they can be united to save Australia from increasing chaos."

Mr Batten said that almost every area of public administration created problems for our society, such as taxes on taxes, government education systems that did not teach children what they needed to know, no control over dysfunctional parents and families and ever rising living costs.

Government needed to stop wasting money on unnecessary projects and, instead, reduce taxes and charges to create areas of deflation instead of inflation, Mr Batten said.

Australia may be heading for a showdown with China, there is a strong possibility of Chinese state owned enterprises seeking a strategic stake in various mining companies operating in Australia, one such is Chinalco, who want to buy a $14 billion stake in Rio Tinto, this would run contrary to our national interest.

This would mean these Chinese state owned enterprises would effectively control the price of the resource or the resources exported to China or elsewhere, this would be to the detriment of Australia and the mining industry, it would mean they, China, would control the price of the mined product, and as a result would bring chaos to the mining industry in general.

Australia’s mining industry and its companies should be owned by an Australian majority of shares etc. otherwise our mineral resources will be exploited and raped, we will be left with empty holes and very little financial reward, it could also mean the importation of their own work force, at best we could expect royalties. Mt. Morgan in Queensland is a typical case where gold was mined and nothing returned to the community, all the monetary benefits went to England. Just ask any one in the town of Mount Morgan, Queensland, the monies were used to create British Petroleum and the oil fields in the Middle East in the early part of the twentieth century, I think it was Iraq.

Australia is pursuing a free trade agreement with China, could this be the thin edge of the wedge? We in One Nation need to monitor these events in the coming months and voice our disapproval in the strongest means available, we must make sure our mining industry benefits Australia and not some foreign country, its our future here at stake.

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