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The Coronavirus from China has transformed the issues facing Australian politics and the Australian people.
Governments have spent $300 billion in ‘economic support’, yet the net outcome has been a 20% collapse in household spending and unemployment headed to 10-15%.
Many more Australians will die from the consequences of the economic downturn than from the virus itself. The social/health lockdown came too late, and now the restrictions are being lifted much too slowly.
Remarkably, a majority of the Australian workforce is now on Federal income support - something both unthinkable and unsustainable.
Debt and deficit will be with us for another decade at least.
This leaves Australia even more vulnerable to economic shocks from overseas. To fund the huge government debt, we are at the mercy of international financial markets.
We need to make our nation more self-reliant while also continuing to export to earn income, create jobs and develop new economic opportunities for our young people in particular.
There is just one long-term issue facing the nation: how do we grow our economy and create jobs. Concerns about climate change, the environment and all the Labor-Green PC issues need to be put aside.
NSW One Nation is ready to play a positive role in this new political agenda.
Rod Roberts MLC and myself have been honoured to represent you in the NSW upper house over the past 14 months. We have achieved a great deal already, but our work has become so much more important now.
We plan to spearhead the drive for growth and jobs, knowing that the public cannot rely on Labor, the Greens and the increasingly Left-wing Liberal and National Parties to achieve economic progress.
Many of Australia’s wounds are self-inflicted, with bad government policies holding back economic development. It's time to change direction and embrace the One Nation agenda.
Pauline Hanson and the Party has been right about many of these issues in the past. Now we need to turn our policies and fine intentions into improvements for Australia.
In NSW, here’s what we need to do:
1. Become a global energy super-power with flourishing coal, nuclear and gas, with the cheapest, most reliable electricity in the world (instead of the most expensive) to attract manufacturing and other investment.
2. Abandon all climate targets and subsidies, get out of Paris, and go for growth, uninhibited by the job-destroying climate change agenda.
3. Clear away green and red tape, becoming unashamedly pro-development in all jurisdictions.
4. Deal with the new mega-debt challenges by lifting economic growth, rather than raising taxes on a struggling economy and households.
5. Fix our education system to produce a highly skilled workforce, competitive against the world’s best.
6. Go for Quantitative Investment in capital works, building roads, rail, dams, power stations etc, rather than Reserve Bank Quantitative Easing (which lines the pockets of the big banks).
Thank you very much for your support.
Mark Latham MLC
NSW One Nation Leader
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