The GST that Mr Costello is pushing for the Treasury will not net foreign taxes. If this is passed it will be the demise of Australia.
We repeat that towards the end of this year, there is a good chance that the established political parties will lose control. When the people read what we have said about the Treasury and the importance of tax, they will also see this possibility, and they will not vote for them.
The Government has supported the MAI, they have encouraged the money manipulators, the IMF to surreptitiously control our finances. Our current Treasurer, together with the Treasury, is desperately trying to hold on to the GST – for no other reason than to enable the foreigners to continue to avoid taxes – the GST will not net their tax.
As can be seen by an extract from these letters from Derek Smith of Tax Reform Limited dated 24 May 1998 to the Prime Minister, which points out:
“Without a stable Government, Australians will be at the mercy of currency speculators. A plummeting value of the Aussie dollar will force high interest rates, leading to increased foreign ownership of freehold property and businesses. Australians, unable to meet high interest payments and inflated living costs, will be forced to sell up in a depressed market controlled by foreigners.
Such an outcome of the Queensland election will make the timing of the Federal Election irrelevant in that currency speculators will have a plausible reason to sell the Australian dollar and collapse its value, whenever they choose. A low value Australian dollar will force the Australian Federal Government to increase interest rates to unprecedented high levels until currency speculators are attracted to buy the Australian dollar.
It is imperative that the Federal Coalition quickly adopt 2%Easytax as its Taxation Reform initiative and call an early election to deny currency speculators the opportunity to strip Australians of their ownership and rights.
Armed with 2%Easytax you will be able to offer all Australians stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.
2%Easytax will fix the value of the Aussie dollar at 75 cents or above of the US dollar and interest rates at 5% or below. It will secure a workable Federal Parliament in your hands for the new millenium."
(We can already see our dollar being manipulated. There is no time to be lost).
Further, a letter to Mr Kerry Packer dated 24 May 1998 from Mr Derek Smith which appeals to him to help save the country, contains these two important paragraphs:
“Mr Murdoch, with overvalued US dollars and access to low interest rate borrowings, will be in the box seat to add Australia to his global network, his US citizenship proving a financial winner. Mr. Packer, your Australian citizenship and interests will prove to be no match against Mr Murdoch in this market place.”
“2%Easytax will fix the value of the Aussie dollar at 75 cents or above of the US dollar and interest rates at 5% or below, effectively disarming currency speculators. Mr. Packer, in your interest, 2%Easytax disarms Mr Murdoch and his US citizenship.”
Austand searched long and hard to find someone who had developed a tax that would work and we settled on Tax Reform Limited. We wanted a tax that would hook in the foreigners. A tax that was simple and didn’t need great long explanations and a tax that would wipe out the other seven taxes that have since been imposed on our current tax system. All placed there with the advice of the Treasury, to further depress Australian companies. Dr Glenister Shiel of Queensland University, has been working on this for some nine years, and as we’ve said before, it is believed that no-one has been able to shoot holes in 2%Easytax. As somewhat of a test of the acceptability of it, the writer went on Radio 2GB in the last week of May 1998 and explained it in layman’s language, and the station reported an incredible lift in enquiries. Two days later, they asked Mr John McRobert of Tax Reform Limited to speak. He got the same response. It is what is called the ‘hip pocket nerve’ in politics, and it makes the difference between success and failure, as any political observer will tell you.
You can see in this real life battle that Australia’s future depends on controlling the money manipulators.
It should hopefully send a strong message to the new breed of politicians whose loyalty will be to the people and not to a Treasury which is currently completely in control of the manipulation of this great land of ours.
Austand calls on every up-and-coming politician – particularly independents – to realise that their promises to the community will be worthless unless the Treasury Department is brought to heel. But time is not on our side.
The Treasury and the Executive Council run Australia, not our politicians. (Refer Chart on Page 3)
All these problems can only be fixed by a strong man in charge – a man who is capable of turning our Government and Treasury into a business-like organisation. It could best be illustrated by the example of Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap. This man used to work for Packer, and that is a feat at any time. You have to be good or you are out. There is nothing wrong with that if you want to make your organisation worthwhile, and the same applies to government. Al Dunlap left Packer and went to Scott Paper, then Sunbeam.
(The following article appeared in The Australian on 4 March 1998, by Bloomberg from New York):
Chainsaw Al keeps the experts guessing:
Al Dunlap is not as predictable as we thought.
Mr Dunlap, a former right-hand man to Kerry Packer and now the chief executive of small appliance maker Sunbeam since July 1996, on Monday announced $US2.5 billion ($3.6 billion) of acquisitions, bringing Sunbeam such well known brand names as Coleman, Mr Coffee and First Alert.
That was a surprise. Last October, Mr Dunlap said he hired Morgan Stanley to help him decide whether he should make acquisitions or sell the company.
It seemed a foregone conclusion what the decision would be. At Sunbeam, after all, Mr Dunlap was repeating his Scott Paper act. In less than two years at Scott, he sold assets, fired thousands and then peddled the company to Kimberly- Clark.
By last (northern) autumn, Mr Dunlap had done the slashing at Sunbeam – 6000 jobs, more than three dozen plants. It figures that he would take advantage of Sunbeam’s substantially enhanced stock price to sell out and seek another target for his unique style of management.
But this week Mr Dunlap unveiled acquisitions instead.
Investors may have been caught unawares, but they were not disappointed. Sunbeam shares rose $US3.88 to $US45.63. Michael Price, the no-nonsense president of Franklin Mutual Series Fund, Sunbeam’s biggest shareholder, issued a statement through Sunbeam praising the acquisitions."
And this is the sort of PM (manager) Australia needs to run this country as a business. He need not necessarily be Prime Minister or even a politician, or even in the position for very long:
Al – as we will call him from now on, would take one look at the Treasury and ask: “Well who is running the country? These fellows? And they are telling us to borrow more money! They want us in hock so they can beat us up. We will soon fix that!”
“The transnationals are paying little or no tax? Is that a fact? What sort of a country are you trying to run? Either the transnationals pay tax or they get out! Do they realise they are guests in our country? Obviously it’s costing us a fortune to let them run their businesses here. We have to have some return! And the best way is to make them pay tax as we do. I don’t care about any agreements – they have to be cancelled. Let’s get on with it.”
Budget Report
If Al Dunlap saw the Budget that was presented to us by Mr Costello on 12 May, he would say “Who is this bloke? He must know that we are being run out of money by people who want to take us over! They’re not paying tax! What is going on?”
It was a great lesson to all of us to watch the Budget presentation on 12 May. First there was the interviewer Kerry O’Brien. He has received, personally from Austand, copies of “The Swindle”. He knows, like any reasonably informed journalist, that this is the case, yet didn’t mention the subject in case he was fired.
Al would say: “The answer is, of course, that it would cost them their jobs.”
But wouldn’t it have been a great thing! It would have been the interview of interviews – to tell the people the truth - if he had asked one simple question of Costello: “What about the transnationals in our country paying some tax? How on earth, Mr Costello, can we continue to give them a free ride while we have people waiting in hospital queues? Not only that, you must know this has been wrecking our country for years!”
Costello would have collapsed. So too would the three media journalists. How dare the real problem in the nation be mentioned!
Then all the subsequent interviews would have been redundant. The people would agree entirely. And perhaps the journalists present interviewed would have made some useful comments – or clapped and cheered instead of just nodding their heads. And there would be a crowd of happy people the following day, saying – Well, we have got the answer now. We thought that life was pretty hard, but this will make something different. Thank you for helping us, Al!
In the same interview, Kerry O’Brien would say, having been given a bit of encouragement, “Mr Costello, your government has been talking a lot about new tax. But obviously in recent months the IMF has been telling you to insist on the GST. The reason for this is obvious – it would not take in the foreigners. In your brief ”The Australian Taxation System – in Need of Reform" (Commonwealth of Australia, 1998), there is not one word about foreigners! Are you just blind? Added to that, you know the Australians don’t want GST!" Good on you, Al!
In the sixties, it was reported in London at an Australia Day Address by Rupert Murdoch:
‘Time to Buy Back Australia’ (see cutting below)
He said “It’s time to buy back the farm – Australia cannot continue to be a nuclear practice site for the French atomic bomb, or a hole in the ground for miners….” Perhaps he has forgotten the real things in life?
It’s a long way from the Global Village he talks about, and we have reports that he is rolling his cables out through China. But he is having his usual difficulties at the same time. I think he may be getting a bit disillusioned about the Global Village, the destruction of the environment and the tribal cultures, the greed of the transnationals who are heralding the breakdown of our planet.
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