29th September 1998
Fellow Australians,
Today is the beginning of the real campaign.
Today the others find out we have not yet begun to fight.
Today marks the run up for change or more of the same.
This Saturday Australians will decide if it is the elite of the media, of academia and those others who see themselves above ordinary Australians who dictate our future, or whether it will be the people themselves who decide our fate.
Until now this election has been little more than posturing by the major parties as they each attempt to direct the issues rather than address the issues.
To some degree they have succeeded in keeping the election focussed on tax rather than unemployment and job creation.
It is understandable that the Liberals, Nationals and Labor would largely wish to avoid reminding Australians of their appalling record on unemployment.
The only serious attention paid to unemployment was the work of Labor.
This was little more than a plan to spend taxpayers’ money to largely create taxpayer funded jobs.
It is not a long-term proposition for the government to just create jobs by creating more government funded employees.
While government must assist to create jobs, the majority of our jobs must be founded in the private sector if we are to have a proper balance between government income and expense.
Real on-going employment in large numbers can only be financially encouraged by governments it cannot be financially sustained by governments.
We must assist private enterprise by providing the incentive to build and expand.
We must re-industrialise to assist in providing jobs of different types that not only suit the diverse needs of our population but also build our national strength and capacity for self-reliance.
The only notable impact made by Labor's backward entrance into employment was Mr Beasley's statement that unintentionally raised the question over the true level of unemployment.
Mr Beasley's promise he would create a million jobs over the next six years to achieve a lowering of the unemployment level to 5% discloses more than Mr Beasley intended and more than Mr Howard's government would have wished.
With current unemployment officially standing around 8% and representing about eight hundred thousand Australians, this means Mr Beasley's million jobs for a 5% outcome is very revealing.
Mr Beasley is, by accident, telling us one of two things. Either a further seven hundred thousand or more Australians will lose their jobs over the next six years or he is acknowledging the true unemployment rate is at least double the so called, 'official figures".
For many years successive Liberal/National and Labor governments with their policies of globalisation and economic rationalism have positioned Australia so our industries would close and our jobs would be exported to benefit the workers and families of foreign lands at the expense of our own people.
When our government decided to bend to foreign interests in their bid to be citizens of the world, did they understand what they would do to their own country?
Was the existing outcome of government policies the result of simple mismanagement through a lack of foresight or are Australians suffering now because of the self-seeking nature of a handful of individuals whose actions were not overturned by their successors.
We cannot continue to believe in or follow policy direction that clearly devastates our industry and manufacturing, exports our jobs, reduces our standard of living and reduces the level of safety in our community.
Unemployment and the need to pro-actively create real long-term jobs must be our number one priority.
Not only because of the personal despair and loss of self worth felt by those who struggle to find their place and an income in these difficult times, but because of the accumulating cost to the community through the destructive nature of unemployment and its terrible impact and multiplying effect on so many other issues.
In the late eighties, Mr Hawke told us by 1990 no child would be living in poverty and yet today over seven hundred thousand Australian children are living, or perhaps I should say, surviving, in families where neither parent has a job.
Seven hundred thousand children suffering alongside their parents in seemingly hopeless circumstances while Mr Hawke collects countless thousands of dollars for personal appearances.
Never forget, Mr Hawke and Mr Keating were the only Prime Ministers in our history who managed to become multi-millionaires while in office and yet at the same time these two also gave us record unemployment and the recession we had to have.
We should all be asking them to please explain.
Mr Howard struggled for more than a generation to become Prime Minister and a hundred days after he finally made it he told the country he was comfortable and relaxed.
Mr Howard told us there were two different types of promises, core promises and non core promises and now he is going to give us a GST even after he told us that would never ever happen.
For Mr Howard there may be two types of promises but most of us recognise that however different promises may be, they often end up as the same lie.
Today, the real fight begins.
Will we allow the lies and treachery of Liberal, National and Labor to be our guide for the future?
Will we allow those who claim to keep the bastards honest to divide us with race hate by their election platform of black against white?
Will we continue to allow the sale of our country, the export of our jobs, the increase in crime and substance abuse, race based policy and the destruction of our national pride and heritage through inappropriate immigration and the segregation that is multiculturalism?
This election, we either make a difference, or we will be made to be different as our Australian identity is taken from us and we are left as just another corner of the world whose standard of living and security has been lowered by the loss of our sovereignty and the intermingling of globalisation.
One Nation stands firm on the issue of jobs.
It is this issue that most needs a champion for it is this sore that has been glossed over and left to fester.
Crime, substance abuse, family breakdown and even suicide are all interlocked with the level of unemployment.
The despair and hopelessness felt by so many of our people is what drives them to extreme actions that a sense of security would never allow.
To address unemployment and provide Australians with a belief in the future, in their security and a comforting understanding of what lays ahead for their children will lower crime reduce the dependence on drugs and help to hold families together.
Young Australians in particular have a right to expect the life we leave them will be better than the life we experienced.
It is the responsibility of every generation to pass on a better standard of living to the generation that follows.
Our standard of living cannot be judged by whether you have a computer or are connected to the internet , whatever access you may have to modern appliances or how many channels you can find on your television set.
A standard of living must be judged by your feeling of well-being, your financial security and the safety you have on the street and in your own home.
A standard of living must be judged by whether you will still have your job next week and next month and next year.
A standard of living must be judged by whether you will ever own your own home and be able to afford your children’s education and your own retirement.
A standard of living must be judged by being able to speak out when things are wrong and your ability both individually and collectively to right those wrongs.
No matter how modern our lifestyle may be, if we do not possess within ourselves a feeling of security and a belief in the future then the material things that surround us will be of cold comfort as we face the uncertainty of each new day.
I say again jobs, jobs, jobs and I mean real jobs not just government handouts and the short-term action of simply creating government funded positions.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is committed to provide the incentive for Australia to once again be a strong self-sufficient manufacturing nation with an equally strong rural sector and a people who believe in themselves, their heritage and their future.
All policies regardless of the issue must consider a component of employment as important in the overall outcome and objective.
We will provide low interest loans through our national trust which will make monies available on a highly targeted and tendered approach based on the creation of jobs in the private sector.
This money will not be hand-outs but funds to begin the re-development of our rural sector, regional Australia, manufacturing, industry, small business and the sponsorship of Australian invention.
The concept of such development funding is not new, rather it has been removed from us by our government in favour of allowing the high profits of private financial institutions.
Such funding has worked well in the past and in some countries such as Japan, is still available today.
In fact even in our own country our own government has proven such funding can be made available by creating 1.5% business development loans on the basis of race to Aboriginal Australians.
We will make available funding for thousands of real apprenticeships across Australia to once again give young people a chance in trades and our country the opportunity of home grown skills.
This funding will be based on a wage supplement to employers where young apprentices after completing the equivalent of year 10 in High School will have in the first year of their apprenticeship 80% of their wage paid by the government, in the second year 60% and in the third year 40%.
This policy will be known as the Young Australian Apprenticeship Revival Scheme.
One Nation will audit all regions of Australia to identify and assess our raw materials and the capacity for value-adding on a region by region basis to both create further employment in devastated rural and regional areas and vastly improve Australia’s export potential as well as our ability to compete domestically with products currently imported.
We must recreate Australian Made.
We must squeeze it, bottle it, can it and weave it, on our own and reap the benefit for our own through value-adding.
One Nation will further improve the prospects of domestic employment by encouraging those who produce goods that are Australian owned and manufactured as well as identifying those goods with simple and obvious labelling.
One Nation will reassess tariffs and other forms of protection to at least give these new industries and existing industries the ability to compete with cheap foreign imports while still being able to have growth in pay levels and improvements in the standard of living for Australia’s workers.
Fellow Australians,
this Saturday Australia is at a cross-roads. We can continue to destroy rural and regional areas of Australia, and continue to leave our young with little prospect of employment, and continue to make our jobs our most successful export while allowing increasing substance abuse and crime and family breakdown, or we can decide to have change.
Change is a simple matter of voting for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and sending all of those parties that have brought us to where we are now a clear and simple message,
that message is – you have failed.
I say again, to Liberal, to National, to Labor, to Democrat, to Green, to all those that in the last couple of decades have come before us –
you have failed.
The chance is now or never.
If we allow the continuation of the policies that have so clearly failed our nation, we ourselves will contribute to that failure.
After this Saturday we must be well placed with more One Nation members of Parliament or the future will simply carry the same devastating results as the past.
Our own flag, our own People, our own Language, our own Future, our own Nation.
One Nation,
Thank you for listening to me.
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