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 One Nation 
Political Party 
South Australian Division

This Policy Document contains an insight to some of the policies and principles of One Nation. It is by no means conclusive. This document does however, identify the more salient issues facing the people of South Australia. One Nation is committed to these principles and policies as being indicative of the purposes for which our organisation exists. These are the very foundations of our organisation and an expression of our commitment to the people of South Australia.

Authorised by Stan Batten, State President  South Australia,
PO Box 10277, Adelaide Business Centre, Adelaide, SA 5000             Phone : (08) 8263 3504

Policy Co-Ordinator : Doug Giddings : Phone : (08) 8294 2767

 OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES

The One Nation political party was launched on the 11th April 1997 at Ipswich by its founder, Pauline Hanson. At that time, after thirteen years of Labor rule, politicians from all major parties had been reduced to a state of abject silence. Political correctness reigned supreme and few would dare to speak out on controversial issues for fear of being abused and attacked by hostile media.

One woman, Pauline Hanson, dared to challenge the entrenched bureaucracy and the vested interests of the political ruling elite by stating the truth as she saw it. Over one million Australians agreed with her, a sufficient number to send the political establishment and their media cohorts into panic mode.

After several years of expensive court battles, internal strife within the Party, and imprisonment, Pauline's enemies finally succeeded in hounding her from the political scene. However, the Party she established, adhering to the principles for which she fought, remains to carry on the battle.

WHAT DOES ONE NATION STAND FOR?

One Nation supports the maintenance of a democratic system of government based on restricting its size and levels of taxation to the minimum required to achieve efficient administration and the least possible intrusion into the lives of individuals, industry and commerce.

One Nation supports a society based on Christian ethics, maintenance of liberty, incentive, individual enterprise and the pursuit of excellence. One Nation is committed to the defence of Australia and to supporting Australia's allies where national security is threatened. One Nation stands for the improvement and well being of all Australians, for the retention of traditional Australian values, the Constitution, the flag and loyalty to our country.

One Nation is strongly nationalistic in its world-view, seeking to put Australia's interests first and setting our own house in order before pursuing an international agenda.


POLICIES

ONE NATION in South Australia, as part of the national body in the past believes that the majority of Australians still support the commonsense policies that originally captured so much endorsement.

There is no doubt that the major political parties have lost touch with the realities of being an employer or an employee.

The Public Service, Federal and State, continues to grow as governments create new departments and agencies, fed by a tax system, the revenue of which is so huge that it is regularly under-estimated.

The core of ONE NATION still exists in South Australia and we believe that what we stand for is supported by the majority of mature-aged voters.

The following basic policies outline what ONE NATION believes needs to be done in many areas of public administration and so your interest and support are invited.

Preamble:

The theory of democratic government is that politicians are elected by a majority of voters in their electorates as individual Members of Parliament who shall represent the views of the majority of their electors.

In theory, democratic government in Australia should be based on a number of fundamental and Christian principles, viz that:

  • All Australians are equal in law.
  • All laws are comprehensible to a person of reasonable education.
  • Individuals are responsible for their own foolish actions.
  • Government shall not discriminate, to the detriment of its electors, in favour of skin colour, nationality or race.
  • Immigration should be based on national interest and need.
  • Immigrants should be required to acknowledge Australian standards, customs and traditions.
  • Immigrants, whether naturalised or not, should be deported after conviction of any criminal offence.
  • Corporal punishment should be restored for all crimes of violence.
  • Capital punishment should be restored for premeditated murder and crime causing death, where doubt does not exist.
  • Law and order issues should incorporate the concept of the punishment fitting the crime.
  • Every person has a right to defend himself or herself, by any available means appropriate to the victim's perception of the threat to personal safety.
  • Every person has a right to pursue personal interests and activities where there is no harm to others.
  • Every person has a right to follow a religious belief where there is no harm to others.
  • Australian commercial interests shall not be disadvantaged in trade with other countries.
  • Australia shall not agree to, or be bound by, international treaties that seek to control the interests or behaviour of Australians.
  • Government, it its various forms, should support and maintain Australia as a Christian country that owes allegiance to the Crown as a Constitutional Monarchy.
  • A Government-sponsored education system should support Christian attitudes.
  • A Government education system should seek to fit children to be able to understand and cope with contemporary complexities.
  • Taxation should be fair, simple, easily understandable and based on the genuine needs of the individual and the essential needs of the nation.

Government

The role of Government and its three tiers needs to be reviewed with a view to reducing its size, while improving its efficiency. The Federal Government is patently excessive, bearing in mind Australia's population of some 20,000,000.

There are too many departments whose work frequently overlaps and there are too many ministerial portfolios.

There are also departments doing work best performed by private enterprise, such as agencies concerned with employment.

There are also too many services performed by Government which also are best performed by private enterprise.

In conjunction with realistic employment policies, all areas of the three tiers of Government need to be reviewed, with the objective or eliminating those that are unnecessary in order to relieve taxpayers of astronomical funding-burdens.

CITIZENS INITIATED REFERENDA

 One Nation supports CIR 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.

HEALTH

Health care is one of the primary responsibilities of Government and needs to be available to and administered to those in genuine need.

Those who cannot care for themselves need to have somewhere to live.

At the same time, Government should not foster blatant physical and mental abuse that results in useless individuals who become dependants of the taxpayer.

Government needs to accept that it is not the role of politicians to decide what is good or bad for individuals and that individuals should take responsibility for their own foolish behaviour.

LAW AND ORDER

ONE NATION believes that law and order issues begin in the home and continue through schooling to adulthood and the norms of decent behaviour in our society.

Our policing, judicial and penal systems need to be drastically modified to accord with the wishes of the majority of the electorate.

There has been a general failure in what used to be accepted and decent standards of our society, partly caused by unwise Government policies resulting in inadequate education, tacit encouragement of crime, accompanied by insufficient training and employment.

Respect and respectful behaviour by children and teachers need to be restored to Government schools.

The curriculum in Government schools needs to be changed to restore the concept of 'an education'.

The Police need to be relieved of time-wasting and unnecessary paperwork in order to be able to protect the public more efficiently.

Criminal law and procedures need to be revised to make prosecution processes faster and more efficient.

The penal system needs to be changed to provide effective punishment for criminals at lower cost.

Offenders with no criminal history should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals.

Victims of crime should be given the option of proposing punishment that fits the crime.

A referendum is needed to allow the public to decide whether corporal and capital punishment should be restored.

The right of self-defence, by whatever means are available, should be restored.

A sense of proportion needs to be created with penalties so that non-criminal breaches of the law are treated accordingly and not equated with some of the lesser penalties for real crime.

Fines for misdemeanours should be just that and not a major source of Government revenue.

EMPLOYMENT

ONE NATION believes that what used to be the simple business of getting a job has become so confused, costly and difficult, with occupational health laws, State and Federal industrial law, tax law and affirmative-action policies that many small and medium-sized employers avoid employing people wherever they can.

Misguided Government policies have also discouraged apprenticeships in the trades and produced the skilled labour-shortage crisis that now exists.

Affirmative-action processes need to be abolished, with appointments within the Public Service based on merit.

Industrial and tax laws that actively discourage employment need to be abolished.

Occupational health and safety requirements that are additional to existing laws dealing with exposure to industrial danger need to be abolished.

While repealing numerous laws that actively discourage employment, new legislation is needed to restore the concept of people being responsible for their own foolish behaviour.

The concept of a man being paid sufficient to support a wife and family is as relevant today as it has ever been and needs to be restored in the national interest.

EDUCATION AND TAXATION

ONE NATION believes that the Goods and Services Tax adds a totally unnecessary burden on all people because of its application to almost all goods and services. The massive additional revenue raised by it encourages Government to expand the public sector far beyond what is warranted by a nation of 20 million people.

The Federal and State taxation systems need to support the community in a way that encourages personal and business advancement, with sufficient revenue to fund essential components of the Public Service.

As a fundamental concept, all tax laws should be comprehensible to any person of reasonable education.

EDUCATION

ONE NATION  believes that successive government policies have resulted in an increasingly semi-literate community without the basic knowledge or ability to comprehend the increasingly complex nature of our society.

Curricula need to be based on what future generations need to know, including an overview of the world and activities therein (eg history, science and economics).

The excessive use of computers within Government schools defeats the education of minds and is a direct cause of the semi-literacy that we see today.

Educating and training the mind is what education is supposed to be all about. This is not happening and the consequences are already apparent in legislation that has unintended and disastrous side-effects, the crisis-management that is rampant and taken as normal, and the misguided and counter-productive obsession with technology. Inefficiency, incompetence and mistakes are not accepted as normal and satisfactory instead of being seen as unacceptable.

The simple act of respect by students towards teachers needs to be restored in Government schools.

RURAL

ONE NATION supports the fundamental concept that Australia must always be able to feed itself and believes that Australians need to recognize that the country can live without cities, but that cities cannot live without country.

To this end. ONE NATION believes that Government needs to decentralize its activities to foster development of rural communities, while discouraging urban sprawl.

The value of all food-producers to the nation needs to be properly recognised and supported, while those who export their produce should not be placed at a disadvantage in international trade.

Free-trade can only be fair on a level playing-field, not at the expense of Australian producers.

Water-use is a major requirement for produce and primary producers need to be assured that they can maintain their industries at a profit.

ENVIRONMENT

ONE NATION believes that the rate of pollution of our planet is so serious that Government needs to involve itself in a meaningful way to help overcome the problem.

The most serious problem continues to be the use of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal.

A variety of inventive individuals have produced alternative sources of energy for generating electricity and for other uses based on renewable sources.

Some car-makers have begun to manufacture vehicles that have less damaging emissions.

While there are huge financial investments in oil, coal and gas, the companies involved are aware that a cleaner environment is now a necessity.

Government, ever at a State level, needs to think big and do whatever is necessary to ensure that the best of the known alternative sources of energy are developed for the mass market and implemented.

UTILITIES

ONE NATION believes that the essential services of water, sewerage, electricity, roads and communications are public utilities.

A public utility is a service that the public has a right to expect at cost, not as a profit-making venture by private enterprise.

In all cities and major towns public utilities already exist, having been established by public authorities.

A public utility is meant to provide the degree of service required efficiently and not be subject to providing minimum service at maximum cost, subject to competitive influences.

The obvious constraints of Government, that to unload public responsibility onto private enterprise is acceptable, needs to be reviewed in order to assess whether this is the best way to serve the public.

JOIN ONE NATION NOW

In the past, support for ONE NATION has been strong. Where any candidates have been elected to parliament, they have successfully checked the excesses of both Liberal and Labor Governments.

ONE NATION can now clearly define its constituency: disillusioned Liberal, Labor and National supporters who believe that these parties no longer support traditional values; small business which has been abandoned by all major parties; the elderly who despair at the loss of the Australian ethos and heritage, to which they devoted their working lives; disenfranchised sectors of the community, such as rural communities, sporting and recreational shooters and fisherman. Their voices have been ignored by politicians on both major parties.

If you value Australia's independence and freedom, if you are a patriotic Australian citizen and if you are prepared to stand for the truth, then we urge you join us now.

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