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Australian democracy is based on the British Westminster system of Government. Hardly surprising really, considering that Australia was founded as a British convict settlement. Although my family history was one of ‘free settlers’ which meant they had enormous privileges in the beginnings of this country even though life was hard. My family pioneered the New England region of New South Wales.
For the past 70 years of electoral history, Australia has not had a hung election result. The last time it happened was in the 1940’s so today we are literally breaking new democratic ground for most Australians.
All political parties accept campaign contributions. In my opinion, this is dangerous to real democracy. Over time, these contributions have lead to a system of capitalist democracy because no political party can afford to run a high profile election campaign without adequate funding for all the advertising costs involved. This in turn has led to a system of dependency on those funds being paid in return for political, usually financial, favours. Every party, of course, denies this to be the case, but it is unrealistically against human nature for it not to be so. There is no politician of any ilk who does not have a big ego and a need of funds to promote themselves or their party.
Independents campaigning though do largely pay their own way via the running of a multitude of campaign fund raisers by a proportion of their community supporters. The major political parties do this as well as receiving donations from large national and multinational companies.
This funding arrangement in conjunction with our Westminster system of Government has led to an adversarial system of lawmaking. This has rarely been to the benefit of a large proportion of Australian citizens and that is why we have so many “little Aussie Battlers”. These are people who tend to live pay day to pay day.
2010 History:
Four months ago, when we had Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from the ALP as our Prime Minister; who was elected in 2007 by an overwhelming majority; he brought in a Resource Super Profits Rent Tax on the Mining Industry.
The big multinational mining companies didn’t like this and so they began a 21million dollar advertising campaign against the ALP and the Super Profits Rent Tax. PM Kevin Rudd was sticking to his guns and wouldn’t negotiate past certain non-negotiable aspects of this tax.
During the recent Global Financial Meltdown, Australia’s fiscal policy saved Australia from going into recession and many thousands of Australians losing their jobs. During this time, it was the mining of our natural resources in conjunction with immediate stimulus packages being made available which put us into debt but saved us from a recession.
It was our finite natural resources which saved Australia. The multinational mining companies would have some Australians believe it was them that saved Australia rather than our resources. Even while the multinational mining companies were profiteering from our resources during this time to the tune of Billions of dollars, they still took the opportunity to lay-off 17% of their workforce.
Because PM Kevin Rudd would not give-in to the demands of the multinationals and accept what the Mining companies negotiated, they advertised extensively against this tax and the ALP.
Because this is an election year (Australia’s parliament only sits for 3 year terms) so Kevin Rudd was quickly ‘removed’ by the ALP as Prime Minister and Australia was given our first ever female Prime Minister in Julia Gillard. At the time, PM Gillard was Kevin Rudds deputy prime minister.
This was very unfortunate for PM Gillard because it caused a lot of ill-feeling in the Australian community. Most saw this drastic and swift removal as an unexpected execution. This decision was made by the ALP back room ‘powers-that-be’ and carried out within 24 hours; without any hint or consultation with the Australian media or people. It shocked Australia and this has continued to resonate strongly and affect last Saturdays election outcome.
2010 Has turned out to be a very important year one way or another for Australia’s political landscape. It represents an important change in our democracy and we can all really benefit from it if those we have so far elected have Australia and the Australian people’s best interests at the heart of all their decisions. How we move forward into the next decade of this new century now depends on all of us.
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Posted in Politics · August 25th, 2010 · Comments (0)
There are many ways of looking for an apartment you need. The majority of people look for the flat they want to rent mostly through the internet. It is the equipment that helps you to know everything about this sphere and to get easily oriented in the ocean of realty offers and propositions. The information on the internet is most often updated, so you can easily keep your eye on the ball. Besides, it is extremely comfortable, as you can stay at home and look for the best choice from your house.
At the same time, don’t forget that it is the place where all possible fraudsters come together. The deeper you get into the internet the more chances of being cheated by the fraudsters you have. There are no doubts that the best way to lead this business “painless” is to ask some specialized agencies for their help and assistance. On the internet you will find many “promising” advertisements tempting you to come under their influence.
Having described all dangers of finding some property through internet we did not mention that it is one of the best ways to find an apartment in the shortest term with the least amount of time. So, in this situation everything depends on your luck. In case you are cautious enough and stick to the safety rules you will be lucky enough to get the best apartment at the best price in the shortest term. If you are too trusting the situation can go the wrong way and you will get into a very sticky situation.
Unfortunately 90% of offers are said to be fraud. There are plenty of ways how to cheat potential tenants. For example, they can be offered to pay for the list of so called “landlords” who put their apartments on lease. Trustful tenants believe and buy this list of contact details and here the most interesting is coming. Having called by all telephone numbers a tenant realizes that they all are fakes. So a client pays and gets nothing. To be honest, the payment is not so high and cheated people never sue to the court. That is the way this type of business prospers.
Sometimes the situations are even ridiculous. A landlord and a tenant sign the contract. The tenants are happy, however landlords ask for a couple of days delay. The reasons are different: to take their personal things out of the flat, to … the list is endless, but the reality is tragic. During these days the landlords sign several more contracts, rake money and leave. When the victims try to clarify the situation it turns out that all deals were concluded by fake documents are not legal.
These are just a several examples of the cases of fraud. Be careful and take all measures of precautions.
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Posted in Current Affairs · July 31st, 2010 · Comments (0)