Australian Citizens Party
formerly Citizens Electoral Council
Australia needs to think big if we are to build our way out of the current economic depression. There is no bigger idea than Project Iron Boomerang, a plan to connect northern Queensland’s coalfields to northern Western Australia’s iron ore reserves with a railway that transports the minerals both ways, supplying steel mills at both ends. This project would fully capitalise on Australia’s abundant iron ore and metallurgical coal reserves, and could be the cornerstone of the infrastructure development program Australia needs to engineer an economic recovery.
“People want vision and hope. They want a plan. China’s got a plan—Belt and Road—where’s ours? Where’s our nation-building plan? Not these bits and pieces of half-funded or 10 per cent-funded flag-waving political stuff.”—Shane Condon
29 Nov.—Most Australians would have heard the news headlines about Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe apologising for inducing many Australians to take out mortgages with his 2020 statement that interest rates were unlikely to rise until 2024.
In the McCarthyite political climate that prevails in Australia and throughout the Anglo-American-dominated “West” today, China is presumed guilty on any and all charges, however implausible, until (and usually even after) they are disproven.
In a legendary five-hour parliamentary speech on 30 September 1909, Tasmanian Labor MP King O’Malley presented a proposal for a National Postal Bank and a Commonwealth National Bank.
