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Coolum: Saturday 16 April


United Australia Party unveils plan to defend Australia’s freedom


ENACTING a Bill of Rights outlawing lockdowns, protecting the right of all Australians to choose

medical treatment and preserving freedom of speech will be the United Australia Party’s first task

when elected to government, party leader Craig Kelly said today.


“The Australian Constitution has no greater purpose than to protect and defend our freedom and the

nation’s security,’’ Mr Kelly said at the United Australia Party’s official campaign launch at Palmer

Coolum Resort.


“The Constitution must become the hallmark of freedom and the United Australia Party will propose

changes to the Constitution to ensure freedom forever for all Australians.


“Our country is in crisis. The Liberals and Labor are keeping Australians in the dark. The Liberals and

Labor are just waiting until after the election to lock us all down and destroy Australia’s economic

prosperity.”


Mr Kelly said the trillion dollars of debt Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg had run up would destroy

the lives of all Australians unless urgent steps were taken to stop it.


“The Liberals and Labor’s trillion dollars of debt ensures that home loan interest rates will rise to

above 6% pa and in doing so 80% of Australians will default on their mortgages and lose their homes.


“They will be out on the street dependent of government handouts and government control to survive.


“Only the United Australia Party team can save Australian’s homes. We will pass a law limiting all

home loan interest rates to be below 3% interest rate for the next five years to save Australians’

homes and their way of life.


“For Australians who own their own home we will preserve the value of their property by avoiding the

great bargain sell off that awaits all Australians if we allow the trillion dollars of Liberal and Labor debt

to destroy Australia’s economy.”


Mr Kelly said the United Australia Party had a clear plan to repay the debt and free Australia and

future generations from burden.


“There is over fifty trillion dollars invested in Asian manufacturing which dominates world trade.

Australia is the biggest supplier of iron ore to Asia and allows Asia to dominate the manufacturing

export market because they have access to Australian iron ore. Asia has no alternative,’’ Mr Kelly

said.


The United Australia Party will introduce a 15% export licence payable on the export of all iron ore

from Australia and those funds will be quarantined for the sole purpose of repaying the trillion dollars

of debt that the Liberals and Labor caused.


“The United Australia Party will save Australia’s triple A credit rating. We will save the homes of

Australians and increase all Australians’ living standards and wages.


“Our regional communities are the backbone of the nation and the United Australia Party is committed

to stimulating economic growth in rural areas.


“Our cities are bursting at the seams. We are faced with heavy congestion, serious housing

affordability issues and mounting cost of living pressures in our cities.


“By providing a 20% tax concession incentive to people living more than 200km from a capital city, we

can decentralise Australia and encourage people to move to or settle in regional areas. This will

provide Australians with a lower cost of living and housing affordability, and ensure our existing

infrastructure in the regions and competitive industrial land is fully utilised.


“The movement of our citizens from the cities to the regions will reduce the pressure on infrastructure

in the cities and bring prosperity to Australia.


“Regional Australia is the forgotten Australia by all political parties, as are Tasmania and the Northern

Territory.


“We need to support regional Australia by reintroducing a zonal taxation system. This will provide an

incentive to decentralise Australia and maximise the delivery of services to regional Australia.


“It will provide the incentive regional areas need to ensure that regional hospitals have doctors, and

that regional industries develop for the benefit of their communities and all of Australia.


“We have to end the discrimination against rural industries and give them the means to compete

internationally,’’ he said.


Mr Kelly said Japan had become the world’s third largest economy by processing Australian

resources.


“Wages in Japan are higher; the cost of energy is more expensive and Japan suffers from the tyranny

of distance.


“Yet Australia sells its mineral ores at $40 to $200 a ton and Japan sells final products at up to

$20,000 a ton or more. To create jobs, generate more government revenue, along with a stronger

balance of payments, the Australian government needs to encourage the use of the mineral resource

wealth of Western Australia and Queensland to support downstream manufacturing in states and

territories that don’t have those resources, such as New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and

Victoria.


“Australia is failing to maximise revenue from its prized mineral resources by continuing to send

unprocessed ores overseas. We can use Australia’s mineral resources to kick-start our economy.”


The United Australia Party’s downstream processing policy will see more stages of the mining

process happen on Australian soil resulting in much higher returns, along with stimulating economic

growth and job creation and rising standards of living and wages.


“We can create thousands of jobs and turbo-charge our exports by processing our mineral resources

in Australia, leading to enormous revenue injection, better schools and hospitals,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“This will create jobs, increase our exports and provide greater revenue and a rising, rather than

declining, standard of living for all Australians. Higher export revenue means better education and

health services for all Australians.


“At rallies in every capital city and in regional centres, Australians, our party members and their

supporters have made it clear to the government that enough is enough.


“The freedom demonstrations across Australia have been attended by more people that Jim Cairns’

moratoriums against the Vietnam War.


“Governments never give back freedom they take from their people. The people have to take it back,’’

Mr Kelly said.


“In Sweden they have created a new skin implant where the government can add different functions

such as personal bank accounts, health history, court and other records. Face scanning technology is

being used to confirm people’s identity and geo-mapping is in place to check exactly where you are.


“Facial recognition is now in Australian schools. Every time you log on to different forms of social

media, facial technology can play a part. The Australian Government is setting up a database that will

match images of everyone pictured on CCTV with their driver’s license and passport photos. The

have dubbed the system, ‘The Capability’.


“Laws passed by Morrison and Dutton even allow the Australian Government to share our data with

third party companies that could be from overseas.


“They could sell our data back to us, sell our own medical records to us. Some people are genuinely

concerned that they are being commodified, objectified and dehumanised,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“If our government is allowed to continue with this plan of mass biometric surveillance, our lives would

never be the same. Our children would never know the freedoms we grew up with.


“Only the United Australia Party is committed to saving Australians from the overreach of power and

unwarranted control and suppression that both sides of government have shown us in the last few

years.


“When elected The United Australia Party will stop the government spying on its citizens.


“That is why our election campaign slogan for 2022 is Freedom Forever.


“Freedom includes freedom from government intimidation and from the government seeking to

interfere with the political process, our jobs and our families.”


Mr Kelly said the public had a right to know and an implied right to informed consent in respect of

medical treatments.


“Contrary to the High Court of Australia’s ruling on the implied right to political free speech, the Liberal

Government has threatened media outlets and owners with the loss of Government advertising

revenue and have imposed censorship in Australia,’’ he said.


“Every day the Labor and Liberal parties continue to disappoint the Australian people.


“The government continues to ignore hundreds of thousands of Australians in Canberra, Melbourne,

Sydney, Brisbane and Perth and right across the nation who are fighting every day for our freedom

and right to choose.


“Facebook imposes censorship by cancelling Australian’s pages if Facebook, a foreign owned

company, does not approve what Australians want to say.


“Foreign interference in our elections can’t be tolerated and once the United Australia Party is elected,

we will take immediate action to ensure Facebook respects Australian’s right to free speech.


“In 2022 the United Australia Party will restore Australia’s freedom across the country. We are part of

a great national movement.”


“Australia’s trillion dollars of debt means our economy is spiralling down and people are holding onto

their savings in fear.


“People are suffering in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria, in the Hunter region in New South Wales, at

Elizabeth in South Australia, right throughout the states of Queensland and Western Australia and all

through Tasmania.


“Australians have lost hope in the future. We have to re-establish confidence and lead the nation; not

tomorrow but now.”


Mr Kelly said Australia was the fourth largest holder of pension fund assets in the world.


“Australian super funds have around 3.5 trillion dollars and are one of the largest sources of capital in

the world, but much of it is invested in North America and Europe and does not provide economic

growth and employment for our citizens.


“Under a United Australia Party government, at least one trillion dollars of Australian super invested

off-shore will be required by law to be instead invested in our country to secure our citizens’ economic

prosperity and maintain the nation’s independence,’’ he said.


“One trillion dollars of growth injected in our economy is more money than the Liberals or Labor can

provide our country.


“It’s projected that in 2041 we will have 9.5 trillion dollars of super and that super must be deployed to

benefit our country and our people, not some foreign country.”


One of the United Australia Party’s long-standing policies is to stop the provisional tax being paid in

advance by Australian businesses, before profits have been made.


“The United Australia Party will stop this unfair tax, to allow up to an extra ninety billion dollars to

circulate in our economy and provide GST revenue for the government and more jobs for Australians.


“Every time that 90 billion is turned over it create and extra nine billion dollars in GST for Australia,’’

Mr Kelly said.


The United Australia will also abolish the Fringe Benefits Tax to release over $6 billion into the

economy.


“Fringe Benefits Tax is a negative tax. It stops Australians doing things, stifles demand and growth

and kills employment. We don’t want to penalise people for spending money. Spending money

creates wealth, jobs, and makes the pie bigger for all Australians to share,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“The United Australia Party will boost the construction industry and increase home ownership

security. We will make the first $30,000 paid on a home loan tax deductible each year and restore the

Australian dream for each Australian to own their own home.


“The United Australia Party will reduce the taxation rate on a person’s second job, which results in

higher earnings over the weekly average earning by 50 per cent, giving all Australians the incentive

and providing Government with increased revenue which would not be paid if a person didn’t have a

second job.


“Our senior citizens are paid less than others relying on government support. We must change this as

a priority. As a first step, the United Australia Party government will increase the pension for retirees

by an extra $180 a fortnight,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“Healthcare is declining every year in Australia and we cannot desert the sick or the dying.


“Our hospital staff are overworked and the capital infrastructure is not up to the projected increased

demand. Despite the extra one trillion dollars the government has borrowed, nothing has been spent

building new hospitals or investing in health care.


“Once in government, the United Australia Party will provide $40 billion additional funding for health

across Australia and will make such funding available directly to hospitals.


“The Australian government is the main petitioner of bankruptcy and company liquidations.


“As a result of business closures, employees lose their jobs. The government then loses group tax,

company tax and, in many cases, exports and GST. As a result, services in education and health

have to be cut to protect the revenue.


“If the government stopped driving business to the wall this wouldn’t happen. We will restructure the

system to keep business going and to keep people employed productively.


“We need to provide more funding for education in Australia. A free nation can rise no higher than the

standard of excellence set in the schools and colleges.


“Ignorance and illiteracy, unskilled workers and school drop-outs are failures of our education system

in the past which have bred failures in our social and economic systems, delinquency, unemployment

and chronic dependency.


“This is a waste of human resources, a loss of productive and an increase in tax supported benefits,’’

Mr Kelly said.


“The United Australia Party will inject an extra $20 billion into the education system in our first three

years in Government. It’s time to invest in ourselves and the next generation.


“We must educate our children as our most valuable resource. We must make it possible for those

with talent to go to university, but we must also ensure those who are educated can find a job after

graduating from university.


“That’s why our ability to compete internationally and to expand our exports is so important. Because

of our policy to pay back the debt the United Australia Party Australia will forgive and remove all

HECS fees.


“Most importantly, we must protect Australia. One hostile nuclear-powered submarine placed

between Singapore and Perth, and Australia would be cut off from supplies of oil from Singapore

which could close down the nation within 60 days.


“We must take immediate steps to acquire nuclear submarines now, such as the Los Angeles class

subs from the US. Now. Not in 40 years’ time,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“Our armed forces’ prime responsibility must be to protect Australia and to be a reliable ally.

“We need a stable world to expand our exports and to be a reliable member of the international

community.


“Our most important trading partners and our main allies must know that they can count on Australia.

Our defence forces need to rearm and redeploy the best technology to meet Australia’s defence

needs.


“Our army, navy and air force personnel are Australians and valuable members of society. We cannot

take their service to the nation and disregard them as Labor and the Liberals have done for the last 20

years.


“A United Australia Party government will link all service pensions to the male total average earnings.

“We will expand all gold card benefits to all peacekeepers. Gold card benefits will be automatically

delivered to the spouses of all veterans for the term of their life.”


The Australian Government needs to support Australian industries and ensure that all of its policies

are for the benefit of Australia first.


“We must encourage Australians to buy Australian produce, and the labelling and packaging regime

needs to be changed so that Australians know clearly what products are Australian.


“If the product contained in any package or container is not at least 95 per cent Australian product

then it will not have a green and gold classification and labelled Australian. Anything less should have

a red label and be marked as foreign,’’ Mr Kelly said.


The United Australia Party believes 25 per cent of the wealth generated from regions in Australia

must be returned to that region so that the wealth can be reinvested in the region that generated such

wealth.


“The Liberal and Labor parties are full of lobbyists. The United Australia Party believes that lobbyists

should be excluded from holding official positions in political parties.


“Lobbyist firms often employ former ministers from both political parties and big business can get

policy changes by paying money to such firms to represent their views. This represents a serious

conflict of interest and undermines the democracy that Australians have fought for,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“A United Australia team will legislate to restrict the role of lobbyists in directing political parties.


“Energy prices are just too high in Australia and the United Australia Party will take real action to

reduce them as the cost of energy is the key to Australia’s industrial development.


“When the ANZACs went overseas they didn’t go overseas as members of the Liberal Party or as

members of the Labor Party. They went as Australians. We need to put the idea of a class war behind

us and unite the nation,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“The Liberal government has done its absolute best to build fear over the last two years. They have

shut down every single voice which provided an alternate point of view to their narrative.


“They have silenced hundreds of doctors, they have silenced the community, they have silenced

academics they have silenced Australians who dared to ask questions and demand answers.


“The right to ask questions is fundamental to a free and open society but we have been denied that

right.


“History shows us that segregation is evil. It shows us that we must reject authoritarianism and

instead pursue more democratic and inclusive ideas. Recent history is full of examples of what an

elected government can do when it becomes emboldened with too much power.


“Governments love to use a crisis, whether real or imagined, to give themselves more power. When

they seek to subvert the democratic process because they tell the people that it’s for their safety or

their protection, we know what the usual outcome is. The usual outcome is tyranny.


“The Australian Government must bring rogue states into line. It is in the Liberals and Labor’s

interests to create fear and division. A divided society is easier to control.


“While people are busily fighting amongst each other the Liberal Party and Labor Party want to be left

free to control us unabated and unchecked.


“Labor and the Liberals have already caused too much damage to Australia, with their trillion-dollar

debt,’’ Mr Kelly said.


“If you believe, as I do, that this nation has the strength and potential to live out its heritage and fulfil

the dreams of the ANZACs, to return Australia to being the lucky country it should be, you must give

the United Australia Party your support.


“Australians can make a difference. Together we will stand up. Together we will create change.

Together we will make a better tomorrow. Freedom Forever,’’ he said.


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