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