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Rhys McGuckin

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia candidate for Melbourne

Why I am standing

My name is Rhys McGuckin; I'm 26 years old and have worked with the Citizens Electoral Council for six years. I have a background in science and computing, as well as a passionate interest in classical music and art. Economic incompetence, educational malfeasance and deliberate destructive tendencies have driven the world to the precipice. Active participation in the political process is necessary to change this direction. Scientific study of Gauss, Riemann and LaRouche provides the solutions. This is why I'm running as a candidate.

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Important issues in my electorate

Without the policies on which I am fighting have been implemented, everything else cannot adequately be dealt with.

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Important policy documents

Although a little difficult to fully elaborate policy details here, these are the main points on which I am fighting.

1. The establishment of a New Bretton Woods international monetary system. The present free trade system of "globalisation" is destroying the nation's agriculture and industry. The CEC will work for a "New Bretton Woods" system, as proposed by the American physical economist, Lyndon LaRouche: A return to the best features of the original Bretton Woods system including tariff protection, fixed exchange rates and government support, through banking and otherwise, for agriculture and industry.

2. The establishment of a National Bank and State Banks to provide loans at 2% or less to agriculture (family farms), industry and for infrastructure development.

3. The repeal of all Federal and State anti-union legislation passed over the past several years, beginning with the Federal 1996 Workplace Relations Act.

4. The repeal of recent fascist laws that have taken away the civil rights of Australians, including the Federal Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Act 2000, aka the "Shoot to Kill" bill, which allows the army to use "lethal force" against Australian citizens, and "racial vilification" legislation, such as the Victorian Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001, which allows the Establishment to fine or jail whomever they please, using politically correct pretexts.

5. An immediate halt to the privatisation of Commonwealth and State assets and regulatory bodies, and the reversal of those privatisations where necessary for the public good.

6. An immediate moratorium on foreclosures of family farms, given the cartel-rigged low prices for farm products and the lack of access to credit at reasonable rates.

7. The elimination of the disastrous National Competition Policy at a Federal level, and the immediate non-compliance with such policy at a state level.

8. The elimination of the Goods and Services Tax, which is a regressive tax which hits poor and working class Australians the hardest, and its replacement by a 0.1% (one tenth of one per cent) tax on speculative turnover.

9. The reassertion of National control over Australia's oil and gas and huge mineral resources, by "buying back the farm", or through other necessary government action.

10. A dramatic expansion of resources to State public health facilities, so that all who need health care will receive it promptly.

11. A dramatic upgrading of State and Federal infrastructure, in water projects, roads, railroads (emphasising high-speed trains), schools and hospitals, and other needed infrastructure to provide urgently needed facilities, new jobs and to serve as the driver for general economic recovery. These projects more than pay for themselves by the economic activity they generate.

12. A real war on drugs. The present "harm minimisation" policy is a disaster, which merely expands drug usage. The war on drugs must be fought with all the weapons of war, including dramatically expanded physical and human resources to our police and other enforcement bodies. Most importantly, the drug cartels presently launder an estimated $10 billion per year through Australia's banks, without whose cooperation the drug trade could not function; these banks, who have also financed the decriminalisation/legalisation lobby in this country, must be pursued ruthlessly.

13. The establishment of generous immigration quotas, for the same reason which the Labor Party welcomed the "new Australians" after World War II—to help build our nation. From the very beginning, Australia has been a nation of hope and opportunity for people of many nationalities and religious backgrounds. While the CEC is opposed to the pious fraud known as "multiculturalism", because it pits one group against another, we warmly welcome those coming here to make a better life for themselves and their families. They will help build Australia (which will suffer a severe labor shortage as the rest of this platform is implemented), just as other generations of immigrants have done.

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