The
domain of the DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND RESOURESES
(ITR) "While remaining ever alert to the lessons of history let us strive boldly toward the future." Lyn Vickery. "GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) is the natural friend of free enterprise, industry, manufacturing and businesses of all sizes." Lyn Vickery GENERAL COMMENTS Comments expressed here are intended to be brief. Like no other this massive department (Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources - ITR) regulates the engines of Australia's well being. INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND RESOURCES - THE ENGINES OR WEALTH To enrich the Australian people, it is the firm policy of GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) to vigorously encourage investment and sustainable enterprise and industry at all levels from micro business to multi national. Australia’s future enrichment is dependent on a prosperous manufacturing sector and a strong manufacturing sector is essential for employment growth. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will create the environment for full (FULL TIME) employment for all who want to work. Australia
must balance its rural industry, raw commodity production and
manufacturing.
That means vastly increasing manufacturing capacity and that
means
the opportunity for hundreds of thousands of new jobs and
careers.
 The business
of GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) is to provide the climate and
opportunities
in which the people can prosper - and that very definitely includes
business.
GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) does not seek to divide and conquer
by
supporting one sector of our nation while another is ignored or starves
- as is the case with all other political parties.
That was the politics of the past! Labor supports the workers. The Liberals support business. The Greens want to paint the whole ship green! We will create opportunities for all who want to take advantage of them. This does not include the simplistic stupidity of notions like level playing fields or equal opportunity. The fact is the playing field is never level and some people are just better suited then others to various things. The secret is to allow each individual to grow as tall as they can at whatever they excel at, and never to criticize them for being a dunce at other things. In some way or another we too are all dunces. The
policy of GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) is to allow all to tackle whatever
they have the attributes for (we open an equal opportunity to all)
- but don't blame us if you or your enterprise are not
suitable
and fail. Above all, don't try and sue the government, your employer or
anyone else - we just make the opportunities, it is up to you
to
perform! See EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
policy
section.
GLOBAL
ACTION believes that in Australia at present the micro and small
business sector is severely disadvantaged by the Industrial
Relations System, government controls and over regulation that favour
large
operators. This situation will be examined very closely with a
view
to non punitive legislative and other changes to correct the imbalance
and in the process significantly boost employment levels.
MANUFACTURING - REBIRTHING THE AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Australian manufacturers have become a rare and endangered species as a result of ECONOMIC RATIONALISM and a very great lack of suitable protection. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will legislate to dismantle this INSANE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC RATIONALISM AT ANY COST and replace it with a more balanced and sustainable approach to business, growth, and profit. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will also legislate to protect (but never feather bed) sectors of industry that need it while at the same time requiring them to adhere to world's best practice principles at all times. It is far better to pay a higher price for "Australian made" when you have a full time job, than to have no job, no money and no chance of buying anything! You are also no good to the nation, the economy or yourself if you are unemployed. Nothing improves individual self confidence more than a regular job or career and few dollars in the pocket each week. Nothing destroys self confidence and even whole families like being penniless! As stated above: GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will create the environment for full (FULL TIME) employment. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will
insist upon secret and democratic
elections and secret ballots
for
both union bosses and company board members.
GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will encourage: a. Innovation in research and design, patents and licensing. b. Vigorously fight to have Australian ideas (of at the very least the profits from them) stay in Australia c. The label AUSTRALIAN MADE will become mandatory on all products wholly manufactured in Australia. RESOURCES The prudent, sustainable, environmentally friendly management of Australia's vast natural resources must continue and grow apace and GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will STRONGLY ENCOURAGE this. See: Mining and Resources Of particular interest to GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will be the principle of maximising the profits retained in Australian, for Australians. TOURISM Tourism is still seen by many as a "new kid on the block" industry and as such requires both careful nurturing and added growth incentives. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will encourage: a. Additional investment in tourism infrastructure and schemes that increase tourism. b. Greater expenditure in targeted overseas and local advertising in key markets. c. Improved service delivery to tourists to encourage re-visits. NOTE: # GLOBAL ACTION opposes mindless globalization. SNAPSHOT ON TAXATION REFORMS (UPTS) GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) offers a proposal to abolish all government taxes, levies, stamp duties, council rates, speeding camera fines and will replace all of these with a single tax to be known as UPTS (USER PAYS TAX SYSTEM) - to be gathered by the Australian Taxation Office and disbursed through a reorganised and beefed up Treasury and Government Audit Office with new powers to inquire about and audit how tax all dollars are spent. For more see belowHOW DOES UPTS WORK? In the UPS model expenditure (what people or businesses spend their money on) is taxed at one indexed, nationally regulated, and transparent percentage A UPTS would eliminate all taxes, both state and federal (including GST, payroll, all stamp duties, land rates - even motor vehicle licenses) and will replace them all with a single automatic electronic funds transfer tax that will be levied at the indexed (published) percentage each time a person or business withdraws funds from their bank. At the same time, it would completely stop taxing payroll (wages), capital (savings) or profit as at present. This new tax would be the only government tax, rating, levy fee or charge you ever see or know . Such a system was never before possible due to the lack of an efficient electronic funds transfer (EFT) technology. Such a tax would be linked to a modernised version of the CPI. It would in fact reflect the health of the nation. Low index = healthy nation, running fit. If the index climbs that means the government of the day is spending too much money - unhealthy nation. In that case the government would have to find better efficiencies or cut services. In practical terms, Government would ether provide a service for free or it won't provide it at all and that will be determined by what services the people tell government they want. The more services, the greater will be the tax index percentage (tax burden). In other words the community will determine the amount of tax we all pay by deciding how much government can spend. The more efficiently the community runs, the less tax all members of the community will pay. Government, acting for the people, on their input, as their umpire would decide. If the government fails - the people would dismiss it at election time. In nuts and bolts terms, the first step in the process of doing anything new with your money is to withdraw it from the bank. The wealthier you are, the more you withdraw and spend and so the more tax you in effect would pay (but still at the same indexed percentage that everyone else pays). A genuine user pays tax system. If you earn or use little you pay little, if you use lots you pay accordingly - but only for what you or your business purchases or uses. SEE: TAXATION "The entity that makes and controls the rules must win the game. That is why 'the people' must make the rules and those rules must never allow either owners, investors, management, unions or workers a monopoly on winning the game. The fact is - we are collectively the people. We have equal rights and therefore should share just rewards according to our input to the grand system we call democracy. Balance and sharing under the auspices of an unbiased just and powerful umpire is vital for wealth creation and the long term good of all. That umpire, as the champion and representative of the interests of all people, is the government alone (with its eyes open). GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will directly defend the fair and democratic rights and entitlements of workers, owners, investors, management and other legitimate stake holders in every workplace on the Australian Industrial scene by centering the pendulum of exertion and reward fairly for all parties. As a strong, unbiased, umpire GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will go a long way to doing this by legislating for total transparency from all parties including owners, management, union bosses and workers, by removing 'rent extraction' * privileges and by eliminating the Al Capone practices of all parties that so damage the wider community. This includes major reforms to Industrial Relations Legislation to eliminate the privileged position of Unions that at present locks in corrosive, corrupt 'rent seeking and rent extraction' practices, community punishing strikes, picket lines, lock outs and cost free legal privilege. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will also introduce new legislation to halt the 'merciless divide and conquer' mentality of owners and investors that (in the name of economic rationalism and in some cases sheer greed) often brought over zealous cost cutting and down sizing - resulting in insecurity of work tenure and hours, falling real workers incomes and misery for tens of thousands of Australians. GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) will legislate to create an industrial and workplace environment that allows everyone to get on with the job by creating clear, present and tangible productivity incentives for all. The 'closed shop', 'no ticket, no start', 'roping in' regime of industrial blackmail and extortion that has lined the pockets of unions, bedeviled the industrial scene and ripped off owners, tenants, workers, investors and in fact the entire community with inflated costs will become history under Global Action (Australia). Finally, the cost to the community of strikes will in future by born by the opposing parties (owners/management/unions/workers), thus providing a massive incentive to reach agreement in or out of the legal process in record time and with minimal disruption and financial disadvantage anyone. OUTLINE OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND RESOURCES (ITR) Who is ITR and what is their business?
" ITR's (formerly ISR’s) primary role is to foster economic advances
and
scientific achievements
With a fundamental role in increasing national prosperity, the
Department
develops and
There are a number of Government agencies that, while independent from
a budget
ISR is part of the broader Industry, Science and Resources portfolio
for
which our Ministers
The Policies of the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (ITR) can be view under the following headings on their own website: Area of Interest:
Australia's Domestic Climate Change Response Of concern to GLOBAL ACTION (AUSTRALIA) are the following: a. Can such a huge department really do justice to all of its responsibilities. b. Can a public service motivated bureaucracy best oversee such vital resources. Also See: SMALL BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TAXATION UNIONS Useful Link http://www.industry.gov.au
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