Liberal Democrat’s answer: 妊娠中絶に賛成であるThe LDP is, however, opposed to those who seek to impose their religious views on the entire population, as sometimes occurs in areas such as abortion, assisted suicide, stem cell research, drug policy, lifestyle choices (same sex marriage), and education.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: 政府は結婚に関与させずかわりに宗教的決断にまかせる"Marriage is quite simply, a private matter"
"The Liberal Democrats do not endorse or reject marriage – it simply regards it as a personal decision that anyone should be entitled to make free of government interference, irrespective of their sexual orientation or lifestyle choice"Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: いいえI AM standing as the Katter's Australian Party (KAP) candidate for the Riverina because of the lack of action as support the major parties have shown not just to the agriculture communities but also to those in manufacturing and small business.
The KAP has a management strategy that balances and mitigates the extremes of high and low rainfall cycles on farming and communities is crucial to the environment and to the communities that live there.
By using sustainable irrigation practices support a huge biomass of native flora, fauna and migratory birds and as such, have become an integral and essential component of the Murray Darling River ecosystem.
The ecological value of irrigation precludes the use of damaging unseasonal artificial environmental flows.
The KAP, will rescind the Water Act of 2007 and redraft it with real input from the inhabitants and water users of the Murray-Darling Basin to incorporate an unequivocal definition of "the environment" which includes human beings - their commun...Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえ家族税給付パートB、ベビーボーナス(及び等価物)を含む、子供関連の政府の支払い、政府資金による育児休暇、育児給付と保育リベートは、廃止すべきです。Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: いいえNo carbon tax. No emissions trading scheme – both would involve a cost imposition upon electricity users, and virtually every person in every walk of life. It would tend to render all our export industries non-competitive. Carbon and pollutant reduction to be achieved by renewables – solar/biomass and other government initiatives and incentives (refer to ethanol).Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえScientific evidence suggests that the Earth’s climate has changed throughout its existence, sometimes dramatically, and that changes in climate have impacted human civilisation. Should the evidence become compelling that global warming is due to human activity, that such global warming is likely to have significantly negative consequences for human existence, and that changes in human activity could realistically reverse those consequences, the LDP would favour market-based options.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいForeign investment does not disrupt either markets or trade. For those who would like to sell their properties and have some money left over after paying off the banks, or who want to borrow against their property, it is to be especially welcomed. More buyers mean higher prices.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいDavid Leyonhjelm voted very strongly against landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
The majority voted against a motion moved by Senator Penny Wright related to coal seam gas. The motion was:
That the Senate—
(a) notes the importance of protecting valuable agricultural, residential and conservation land from unconventional gas activities;
(b) supports the right of landholders and local residents to say 'no' to unconventional gas exploration and mining in their communities;
(c) recognises the concerns expressed by communities in the south east of South Australia over potential groundwater contamination from unconventional gas activities; and
(d) congratulates the South East Local Government Association in South Australia for standing up for their local communities and voting for a moratorium on unconventional gas.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKatter's Australian Party supports a uranium mining export industry because of its economic potential, the associated development of regional Queensland and for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions it would provide. Other parties may adopt a different position. Queenslanders deserve to know what these positions are.
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Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいWith demand for nuclear fuel set to increase in coming years, the LDP believes Australia cannot afford to neglect this important source of foreign revenue. There has been a reluctance to capitalise on this valuable resource in the past, with compromises such as the three mines policy operating during the 1980s. The LDP would remove current restrictions on the nuclear industry in Australia - allowing uranium exploration and exports with no limit on mine numbers. The only limitation it would place on uranium exports is to take reasonable steps to ensure it was not used in the production of nuclear weapons.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいThe nuclear industry also has the potential to create a secondary industry based on the storage of waste products. With vast expanses of uninhabited, geologically stable land, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory could become world leaders in the field of safe storage of nuclear waste. The storage of nuclear waste, if done properly, is safe. Moreover, storage in Australia would help keep it from ending up in the wrong hands.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はい9. Governments should provide essential services such as airports, water, electricity, gas, health services, road networks, public transport and communications. Where such services are not provided by government, government should ensure that the services are affordable for all and of a reasonable standard.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKAP Federal Leader and Member for Kennedy Bob Katter today pleaded with Government to invest significant funding in dental care in rural and regional Australia following horror stories from desperate North Queenslanders, some who have been forced to pull their own teeth out with pliers. “The primary responsibility of Government is to protect people and we are failing miserably in dental care,” he said.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえ自由民主党はなります。メディケア、非政府所有に転送されます公立病院、のための薬学的利点スキームと資金を廃止。Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: もっと少なくGovernments should provide essential services such as airports, water, electricity, gas, health services, road networks, public transport and communications. Where such services are not provided by government, government should ensure that the services are affordable for all and of a reasonable standard.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: もっとメディケア、非政府所有に転送されます公立病院、のための薬学的利点スキームと資金を廃止。Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいGovernments should provide essential services such as airports, water, electricity, gas, health services, road networks, public transport and communications. Where such services are not provided by government, government should ensure that the services are affordable for all and of a reasonable standard.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はい貧乏個人に直接提供医療費の助成で、間接的で非効率的な介入を交換すると、官僚を削減政府支出を削減する、革新的なヘルスケアを促進し、患者に力を与えるだろう。Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: いいえRestrict Australia’s migration zone to the mainland.
Any boat found in Australian waters, that is seaworthy and carrying asylum seekers, shall be turned around and escorted out of Australian waters. Any immediate humanitarian needs of passengers or crew shall be met at interception.
Asylum seekers claims are assessed quickly to screen for health and obvious security risks. Successful refugees should only be granted temporary visas and conditional release into the community on a strict social contract subject to close electronic monitoring for a probationary period in lieu of detention.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はい、ボートを元に戻すと、陸上、それらを処理しませんセキュリティや健康診断のために許可されていない到着者の数を減らした後、入国許可証の支払いに応じて一時的に釈放することができます。Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: 増やすThe current approach to immigration is to set a broad quota and then assess applicants for Permanent Residence according to a complex set of criteria. The LDP proposes a change in this “quota” approach to a “tariff”, in which immigration is limited by charging an immigration fee (subject to meeting minimum health and safety requirements) The immigration fee would apply to all non-humanitarian immigrants, whether economic or family. To ensure the fee did not discourage the immigration of highly-skilled people, a limited number of “immigration scholarships” and “immigration loans” would be available.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKAP Leader and Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter this week in Parliament voted against the Government to amend the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 which includes a water trigger amendment, which in effect delegates to the State Government's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) project approvals in relation to impacts on water supply.
“There is a conflict of interest when the State Governments receive royalties from the CSG industry. Being judge and jury on the approvals process, when State coffers benefit, mocks the objectivity for farmers,” Mr Katter said.
Mr Katter believes underground water is the life blood of inland Queensland, an inland almost completely bereft of surface water. CSG must drain aquifers and use contaminates thus potentially threatening this precious resource.
Mr Katter voted against the State Government becoming a ‘one stop shop’ for the approvals.
“The Bentley Case in NSW and the corruption that has ensued has resulted it seems from the close and unhealthy relation...Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえThe Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) believes the energy market should operate in the private sector, competing in an environment of limited regulation which does not seek to pick winners. Government is intrinsically incapable of balancing the different social, economic and environmental values of water, while politicising water divides the community and leads to both irrational shortages and surpluses. As far as possible, the LDP will abolish government ownership and control of water. The LDP will establish mechanisms for trading water that ensure it is priced in accordance with its value. The LDP will abolish mandatory water requirements on private property, such as an obligation to install water tanks. This is not an area that warrants government intervention. The LDP supports the right of private property-holders to sue others for nuisance, trespass, negligence or other civil wrongs that cause damage to rights to collect and use water. The LDP supports the recycling of water for human consumption, subject ...Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: 引き下げThe LDP believes that the best course for Australia is a low tax future. The LDP believes that taxing income is perverse. It discourages Australians from working and saving, impedes investment, and imposes unnecessary compliance costs on individuals and businesses.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえThe LDP supports an immediate end to state and federal government ownership of:
The National Broadband Network
Liberal Democrats NBN Plan:
(1) Start with $40 billion dollars.
(2) Return roughly $4000 tax cut over the next 10 years to all taxpayers to pay for internet services they actually want (or gasp, something else they think is more important).
(3) Let the internet develop organically like it was designed to do, keep politicians like 'Great Firewall of Australia' Conroy and Turnbull away from it.
https://www.facebook.com/LDP.australia/posts/10151391997442672Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえThe government’s $42 billion “stimulus” package will cost Australians $466,667 per job created, assuming it even reaches its target of 90,000. Every Australian will be stimulating the economy to the tune of $2,000. More accurately, taxpayers will be paying around $5,000 each of their own money.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKAP is committed to protecting Australian jobs and maximising the productivity of the workforce to increase employment rates in terms of people in paid work, and more
importantly, the people in full time work.
KAP is committed to achieving this through considered policies that actually support the industries and
businesses that provide the employment opportunities, with a particular emphasis on small business.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいThere are three steps necessary to bring the Australian economy back to health: (1) tax reform and deregulation to boost economic growth; (2) cut government over-spending to immediately bring the budget back to surplus and start paying down the national debt; and (3) structural reforms that ensures government spending is sustainable in the long run.
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Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいMr Katter slammed free-trade in Parliament saying it is the result of a colonial inferiority mentality that would sicken any decent Australian. It has wreaked havoc in our country economically and brought in diseases such as citrus canker, panama, black sigatoka and papaya fruit fly.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえThe Liberal Democrats support free international trade in goods, services and capital. It is a simple fact that Australians benefit from free trade and foreign investment.
We are a pro-trade party. In Australia, other small parties hide behind the rhetoric of ‘fair trade’ and protectionist populism. However, the welfare of Australians is not improved by xenophobia and irrational economics.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいThe Liberal Democrats will remove these and other restrictions to ensure that new and old forms of non-government money, from gold to Bitcoin, are allowed a chance to prosper as a store of value and means of transaction. Opening up the Australian dollar to competing currencies will ensure that Australians have alternatives to prevent their savings and income being eroded by the hidden and insidious effects of inflation.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: いいえQueensland independent MP Bob Katter is seeking to overturn a temporary federal government ban on the import of a new rapid-action shotgun and says he is so worried about the erosion of Australians’ ability to own firearms he bought a bow and arrow.
The main importer of the Adler 110, which the Coalition has banned for one year, was Katter’s son-in-law Robert Noia.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえLiberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says he expects an import ban on a controversial rapid-fire shotgun, imposed in the wake of the deadly Sydney siege, will not be extended when it lapses in August. Senator Leyonhjelm, who cut a deal with the government to ensure a sunset clause on the ban, believes it will not be extended and has called for authorities to resist pressure to tighten restrictions on five-shot lever-action shotguns.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はいThe Australian Government should recognise and have diplomatic relations with the overarching governing power of each populated region of the world. Non-recognition is an act of weakness, while diplomatic relations reduce the risk of conflict. While not all countries will seek membership of the United Nations, Australia should support membership for any country that applies, including Kosovo and Taiwan.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえThe LDP is unequivocally opposed to compulsory military service (including preventing volunteers leaving the services when their term of enlistment has expired). The LDP believes that if the citizens of a state choose not to volunteer to defend it, that state does not deserve to be defended.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はい5. Australia's sovereignty and independence as a nation requires Australia to:
i. have a sufficient population and for that population to be so distributed as to demonstrate occupation, control and utilisation of our land, water and other resources
[Note: Demonstrating occupation of water would require an aggressive stance on whalers.]Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえ、日本の捕鯨を阻止するために外交的なアプローチを取りますThe Japanese do not want to withdraw from the convention or object to the moratorium on commercial whaling, so they call their whaling scientific. While this legal contortion is peculiar, we waste money when we complain about it to international courts. And the harassment of Japanese whalers on the high seas, while others carry on their whaling unmolested, is unreasonable.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいAustralia’s sovereignty and independence as a nation requires Australia to: have a sufficient Defence Force to deter invasion and to prevent any territorial intrusion or threat; maintain strategic defence industry capabilities to ensure Australia is self-sufficient in the manufacture of strategic Defence requirements; establish and nurture relationships and alliances to secure support and assistance in times of peril;Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はい自民党は、米国で現在の同盟関係をサポートしており、それが主要な電力侵略を抑止に不可欠であることを認識しています。Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえ· The Liberal Democrats support professional diplomatic engagement together with trade representation (funded on a user-pays basis) to foster bilateral trade.
· The Liberal Democrats endorse the right of the people of any region to have their own country, provided that the majority of the people of the region support it and its creation does not pose a threat of violence to the region’s neighbours.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: はい、動物虐待の法律を施行する国への輸出を許可生きた動物のオーストラリアの輸出を終了するには容赦キャンペーンについてのばかげたと偽善的な何かがあります。これは、排外主義の強い用量、無知のかなり多く、そして人種差別のっぽさが組み込まれています。Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいYes, just build the bloody thing. It will be great for the economy while we’re building it and after. The best way to get it built is to give KAP (the party of developmentalism) the balance of power in the Senate. The other parties would prefer that we were all dead before Australia got a High Speed Train, and the greens will find an endangered earthworm and cancel the production half way through.Source
Liberal Democrat’s answer: いいえ自民党は、ABC、SBS、オーストラリア・ポスト、メディバンクプライベート、発電、公共交通機関のサービスなどのビジネス企業の政府の所有権への即時終了を提唱しています。Source