Our Party Constitution
The Australian Workers Party was born from frustration, from the sense that we the people of Australia are no longer represented by the major political parties on any but corporate levels. Our core belief is that the nation belongs to all of its people, and the Australians must not only be heard but fiercely represented. Our current system is no longer in touch with struggling families, no longer listens and no longer puts its own people first.
We Believe;
Individual prosperity
The Government mentality that we can grow as a Nation by reducing incomes, sacking workers, cutting pensions and superannuation while the cost of living continually increases is obscene. Australian citizens must have adequate levels of opportunity and income to meet daily cost of living expenses, if not Australians do not consume goods, do not engage services or indulge in personal enjoyments like travel and holidays. This strips incomes from business and will increase the number of business failures. Such a breakdown shall then lead to higher unemployment and benefit dependency. Any claim to the contrary is false and deliberately misleading, even veiled austerity measures are proven a failure. After the Greek collapse austerity has been denounced by the world as a failure, so such a system must not be permitted in Australia under any Government, and needs to be unequivocally extinguished in any form.
Innovation
Australia has long been a Nation of ideas and innovation. We need to encourage our people and industries to grow, not reduce our economy by becoming a country of consumers whose once proud workers steadily become unemployed or dependent upon handouts and benefits. Government should not permit the flooding of markets with cheap imported products that destroy business and take away local jobs. It is not the Australian people’s responsibility to give up opportunity so other Countries can flourish at our futures expense. Those with ideas of worth should be encouraged and receive Government assistance to manufacture and produce their goods in Australia. Selling off our best products, ideas and innovation to other Nations has continued for far too many decades and must be stopped. Consumers don’t grow, innovators do, and that must be Australia’s path into the future.
Skills and Training
Australia should be training its own. Master Tradesmen and skilled personnel should be provided with realistic incentives and assistance to ensure future skill deficiencies can be met by training the youth of today, how many decades has Australia complained there are insufficient tradesmen to meet our needs? Apprentices should again receive the tools allowance as was promised then stolen away, such reflects the Government's indifference to the future of our children. We should not be permitting 457, 471 or any other worker from overseas while our unemployment climbs and our youth are denied these opportunities. To say Australia needs to import unskilled workers at times when unemployment is rising is simply ridiculous. No employer should be permitted to claim they cannot find unskilled workers in such a climate, nor should the option exist.
Industry Growth
For decades we have witnessed declining agriculture and manufacturing in this Country in favour of importing goods from overseas. Australia cannot compete in a global market against subsidised Nations or poorer Countries that pay such a pittance for wages they can undercut us at every turn. Australia must ensure tariffs and import restrictions are strengthened so traditional practices and entrepreneurs have a real opportunity to create, grow and flourish here at home. The current global view is not of benefit to Australians, only to importers of all too often inferior products that create no jobs and build no local industry, and yet again all the generated profits vanish overseas. Iconic Australian businesses have closed, core industries have died and the opportunity for gaining employment has greatly reduced from this practice and it must cease. We need courageous Government willing to back and protect Australians, to permit the people to build a better stronger Australia for themselves and their children’s future. Government must assist people in building prosperity from their own guts and determination to succeed, not stop them via the permitting of impossible competition.
Pensioners and the unemployed
Australia must end the Government's rhetoric that the unemployed, retirees and pensioners are bludgers and leaners. How do we tolerate any Government's deliberate abolition of the proposed superannuation increases and pension reductions, this while they simultaneously complain that retiring people will be poorly funded and a drain on the Country's economy. Unless they feel their personal security is threatened, then suddenly the Government cares, usually this occurs around 6 months from an election. Australian people have worked their entire lives, paid taxes and at least attempted to secure their own retirement under the only system that was made available to them by the Government. Now the Government says they have failed to ensure their own system is adequate, this must be changed, and the people should not be punished for Government infighting, fund rorting and protection failures.
Healthy Communities
Improving fitness for all ages using a singular approach for multiple issues. We encourage the promotion and active participation of the bicycle. This will reduce healthcare costs regarding the challenges of obesity, mental health, transportation solutions, c02 and cancer recovery. It will also reduce obesity in our youth who currently rank 2nd in the developed world in obesity levels. The biggest impediment to the uptake of the bicycle is fear, TLC plan to reduce this with a range of measures such as supporting the implementation of safer environments on roadways for cyclists and pedestrians via the creation of lane-ways, safe travel zones and the introduction of vulnerability and presumed liability laws to increase driver awareness and financially protect those active participants from the moment an accident occurs.
There must also be a greater push on legislative knowledge and road user understanding. Education is the only way to increase safety and permit greater interaction on our roads for people of all ages and from all walks of life who wish to choose a healthier lifestyle while travelling from A to B.
Obesity related costs have now blown out to $22 billion p.a. and climbing. Reductions in this extraordinarily unnecessary figure can be used to reduce the budget deficit and extend the lives of all Australians. This strategy will also reduce our dependence on foreign refined fuel, toll-ways and reduce cancer causing carcinogens being emitted into our airways.
Public Safety
We demand an immediate reinstating of any and all battered women’s shelters closed by this government. To see this issue left floundering while hundreds of millions is offered in election bribes for roads and business is nauseating, women are dying in their own homes and that is not negotiable. There is no excuse that’s acceptable, shelters and support groups must be reinstated and adequately funded. Mental illness is another, why do we endlessly talk about how we must fix the symptoms while the Government is busy dismantling the very groups that can help attack the cause? In Australia we have heard so many Political lies over boats and bludgers we are now losing sight of the real issues. Domestic violence, rape, street violence, the drug trade, all are increasing, and the detection and punishment of these crimes seems to be decreasing. Many hundreds of millions are gathered yearly across Australia by speed cameras, fines and prosecutions, this money needs injecting back directly into Police Services to provide a stronger more effective Police presence on our streets. Siphoning of State funds gathered by enforcement agencies for pet Government projects must stop. The safety of Australia’s people in their homes and on the streets must come first.
Equality
We have one simple question in this area, why is this still being discussed? All people in Australia deserve equal rights, be they same sex marriage, equal pay, or equal opportunities, this is the hallmark of a civilised people. Australia has for years been skirting around the edges as these issues are treated as Political tools for the express purpose of preying on bias and bigotry. Such attitudes will never alter or end while division is permitted to exist, thus it’s time to level the playing field and remove the tools of dissent. Neither major party has shown sufficient guts to truly lead on these matters. They fail to show true leadership on behalf those on whose votes they desire, and they do it because of internal and external power plays and religious influences, not because it isn't deserved by all our citizens. We say if they don’t stand by each and every one of your rights as a human being, take your vote and walk away from their right to continually and detrimentally influence your life.
Overseas Workers
We, as people who have actually worked for a living find it ridiculous that this or any previous Government can claim surprise over illegal workers on expired visas, or employers paying what is now being referred to as slave wages. Anybody who has ever picked fruit or worked day labouring jobs will tell you they have had offers of cash wages so the worker can stay on unemployment benefits. This is designed to save the employer money, dodge superannuation payments, ignore insurance and abuse then discard the workers. The solution is simple, reinstate the inspectors that were sacked many years ago. Immigration and workplace investigators once randomly attended businesses to detect these issues. But again successive Governments have cut back these positions until they have all but ceased to exist. We want these positions returned to our Government agencies in every city, and every regional centre across Australia.
We Believe;
- In open Democracy as the best system to offer the people a voice in the future formation of the Nation.
- In the rights of our citizens to have bold and honest political representation, in both the State and Federal Parliaments.
- That Government has an obligation to help create and support local industry while putting local job creation ahead of overseas investors sending job killing imports in by the shipload.
- In our farmers for increased food production, increased rural infrastructure, market protections and opportunities must be a Government priority. We can't eat coal or gas, and any Government destroying our food bowls for overseas interests is committing an unforgivable crime.
- That no decrease in wages or penalties should occur, reduced income manifests as increased poverty, hardship and unemployment. We are against trickle down economics. A prosperous society is created from the middle out, not from the top down and this area of the economy must not only be protected but also encouraged and supported to expand.
- That corporate taxation must be addressed via a far simpler taxation system. There is no excuse for offshore rorting of the Nation’s wealth while the Government taxes those who can afford it the least. Taxes must be applied at the point of sale, not in some far off land which has been costing us billions in lost revenue each and every year.
- That Australia should be responsible for manufacturing its own arms, equipment and ships. Abandoning Australian defence industries jobs and innovation must no longer be permitted.
- In supporting community groups, volunteer organisations and all our essential and emergency services. This is our Nation's heartbeat, yet successive Governments have stabbed at it repeatedly.
- That all Australians have the right to walk the Nation's streets or dwell in their homes free from abuse, molestation and domestic violence.
- That the environment must be both protected and available for all Australians and visitors to our shores to visit and enjoy. Park infrastructure and access is a must, as is adequate trained Parks staff to protect and improve them. To see so much of this amazing Nation denied to its people is a crying shame, we need to get out of the cities, explore and enjoy the wonders that surround us. We need to once again remind the world of the majesty we have here to share. We should not be digging or dredging our pristine lands to death for the short term profits of some overseas conglomerate. Once the envy of the world, our natural wonders are now being reduced to little more than a target for corporate profits, it’s a disgrace, and it must be ended
Individual prosperity
The Government mentality that we can grow as a Nation by reducing incomes, sacking workers, cutting pensions and superannuation while the cost of living continually increases is obscene. Australian citizens must have adequate levels of opportunity and income to meet daily cost of living expenses, if not Australians do not consume goods, do not engage services or indulge in personal enjoyments like travel and holidays. This strips incomes from business and will increase the number of business failures. Such a breakdown shall then lead to higher unemployment and benefit dependency. Any claim to the contrary is false and deliberately misleading, even veiled austerity measures are proven a failure. After the Greek collapse austerity has been denounced by the world as a failure, so such a system must not be permitted in Australia under any Government, and needs to be unequivocally extinguished in any form.
Innovation
Australia has long been a Nation of ideas and innovation. We need to encourage our people and industries to grow, not reduce our economy by becoming a country of consumers whose once proud workers steadily become unemployed or dependent upon handouts and benefits. Government should not permit the flooding of markets with cheap imported products that destroy business and take away local jobs. It is not the Australian people’s responsibility to give up opportunity so other Countries can flourish at our futures expense. Those with ideas of worth should be encouraged and receive Government assistance to manufacture and produce their goods in Australia. Selling off our best products, ideas and innovation to other Nations has continued for far too many decades and must be stopped. Consumers don’t grow, innovators do, and that must be Australia’s path into the future.
Skills and Training
Australia should be training its own. Master Tradesmen and skilled personnel should be provided with realistic incentives and assistance to ensure future skill deficiencies can be met by training the youth of today, how many decades has Australia complained there are insufficient tradesmen to meet our needs? Apprentices should again receive the tools allowance as was promised then stolen away, such reflects the Government's indifference to the future of our children. We should not be permitting 457, 471 or any other worker from overseas while our unemployment climbs and our youth are denied these opportunities. To say Australia needs to import unskilled workers at times when unemployment is rising is simply ridiculous. No employer should be permitted to claim they cannot find unskilled workers in such a climate, nor should the option exist.
Industry Growth
For decades we have witnessed declining agriculture and manufacturing in this Country in favour of importing goods from overseas. Australia cannot compete in a global market against subsidised Nations or poorer Countries that pay such a pittance for wages they can undercut us at every turn. Australia must ensure tariffs and import restrictions are strengthened so traditional practices and entrepreneurs have a real opportunity to create, grow and flourish here at home. The current global view is not of benefit to Australians, only to importers of all too often inferior products that create no jobs and build no local industry, and yet again all the generated profits vanish overseas. Iconic Australian businesses have closed, core industries have died and the opportunity for gaining employment has greatly reduced from this practice and it must cease. We need courageous Government willing to back and protect Australians, to permit the people to build a better stronger Australia for themselves and their children’s future. Government must assist people in building prosperity from their own guts and determination to succeed, not stop them via the permitting of impossible competition.
Pensioners and the unemployed
Australia must end the Government's rhetoric that the unemployed, retirees and pensioners are bludgers and leaners. How do we tolerate any Government's deliberate abolition of the proposed superannuation increases and pension reductions, this while they simultaneously complain that retiring people will be poorly funded and a drain on the Country's economy. Unless they feel their personal security is threatened, then suddenly the Government cares, usually this occurs around 6 months from an election. Australian people have worked their entire lives, paid taxes and at least attempted to secure their own retirement under the only system that was made available to them by the Government. Now the Government says they have failed to ensure their own system is adequate, this must be changed, and the people should not be punished for Government infighting, fund rorting and protection failures.
Healthy Communities
Improving fitness for all ages using a singular approach for multiple issues. We encourage the promotion and active participation of the bicycle. This will reduce healthcare costs regarding the challenges of obesity, mental health, transportation solutions, c02 and cancer recovery. It will also reduce obesity in our youth who currently rank 2nd in the developed world in obesity levels. The biggest impediment to the uptake of the bicycle is fear, TLC plan to reduce this with a range of measures such as supporting the implementation of safer environments on roadways for cyclists and pedestrians via the creation of lane-ways, safe travel zones and the introduction of vulnerability and presumed liability laws to increase driver awareness and financially protect those active participants from the moment an accident occurs.
There must also be a greater push on legislative knowledge and road user understanding. Education is the only way to increase safety and permit greater interaction on our roads for people of all ages and from all walks of life who wish to choose a healthier lifestyle while travelling from A to B.
Obesity related costs have now blown out to $22 billion p.a. and climbing. Reductions in this extraordinarily unnecessary figure can be used to reduce the budget deficit and extend the lives of all Australians. This strategy will also reduce our dependence on foreign refined fuel, toll-ways and reduce cancer causing carcinogens being emitted into our airways.
Public Safety
We demand an immediate reinstating of any and all battered women’s shelters closed by this government. To see this issue left floundering while hundreds of millions is offered in election bribes for roads and business is nauseating, women are dying in their own homes and that is not negotiable. There is no excuse that’s acceptable, shelters and support groups must be reinstated and adequately funded. Mental illness is another, why do we endlessly talk about how we must fix the symptoms while the Government is busy dismantling the very groups that can help attack the cause? In Australia we have heard so many Political lies over boats and bludgers we are now losing sight of the real issues. Domestic violence, rape, street violence, the drug trade, all are increasing, and the detection and punishment of these crimes seems to be decreasing. Many hundreds of millions are gathered yearly across Australia by speed cameras, fines and prosecutions, this money needs injecting back directly into Police Services to provide a stronger more effective Police presence on our streets. Siphoning of State funds gathered by enforcement agencies for pet Government projects must stop. The safety of Australia’s people in their homes and on the streets must come first.
Equality
We have one simple question in this area, why is this still being discussed? All people in Australia deserve equal rights, be they same sex marriage, equal pay, or equal opportunities, this is the hallmark of a civilised people. Australia has for years been skirting around the edges as these issues are treated as Political tools for the express purpose of preying on bias and bigotry. Such attitudes will never alter or end while division is permitted to exist, thus it’s time to level the playing field and remove the tools of dissent. Neither major party has shown sufficient guts to truly lead on these matters. They fail to show true leadership on behalf those on whose votes they desire, and they do it because of internal and external power plays and religious influences, not because it isn't deserved by all our citizens. We say if they don’t stand by each and every one of your rights as a human being, take your vote and walk away from their right to continually and detrimentally influence your life.
Overseas Workers
We, as people who have actually worked for a living find it ridiculous that this or any previous Government can claim surprise over illegal workers on expired visas, or employers paying what is now being referred to as slave wages. Anybody who has ever picked fruit or worked day labouring jobs will tell you they have had offers of cash wages so the worker can stay on unemployment benefits. This is designed to save the employer money, dodge superannuation payments, ignore insurance and abuse then discard the workers. The solution is simple, reinstate the inspectors that were sacked many years ago. Immigration and workplace investigators once randomly attended businesses to detect these issues. But again successive Governments have cut back these positions until they have all but ceased to exist. We want these positions returned to our Government agencies in every city, and every regional centre across Australia.
