Selwyn Johnston… Independent Advocate

State legislation, which empowers Local Governments to add the insidious cocktail of chemical poisons commonly known as FLUORIDE into the public drinking water supplies, is Constitutionally illegal and, such legislation MUST be repealed… under Commonwealth LAW.

This fluoride chemical cocktail consists of:

• Fluorosilicic Acid (H2SiF6)
• Sodium Fluoride (NaF)
• Sodium Fluorosilicate (Na2SiF6)

I have made reference to section 51, xx111A, of the Australian Constitution on numerous occasions in regard to fluoridation by civil conscription, and, I hasten to add, that this section along with sections 100 and 128 will be among the first causalities of the Australian Constitution should the republicans get their way to re-write our world acclaimed Constitution.

For the record, section 109 of the Constitution clearly provides that if a valid Commonwealth law is inconsistent with a law of a State Parliament, the Commonwealth law operates and the State law is invalid to the extent of the inconsistency.

You can be assured, upon my successful 2007 Leichhardt Independent campaign, I WILL introduce a ‘Private Members Bill’ into the House of Representatives, calling for immediate Commonwealth intervention against the States to repeal illegal and invalid State fluoridation Laws.

Further information is available by clicking onto the following LINK…

FLUORIDE… The Greatest Fraud of the Twentieth Century

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Every election year we get bombarded with the concept of the “bell weather” electorate and what is happening in those electorates purportedly foretelling the outcome of the elections.

But is there really such a thing as a “bell weather” electorate or is it just a marginal electorate that over the last few elections has just followed the election trend and been of sufficiently small margin as to be affected by it only within the limits of statistical probability.

For sure we have the so-called safe seats, and the marginal seats, and in both of these classes of seats there can be a demographic change, often as a result of a boundary change. Given a general swing these seats could well follow the trend and change or remain the same but does that make them bell weather seats.

Eden Monaro in New South Wales and Brand in Western Australia are quite often described as bell weather seats, but is this really the case. I would have thought that Griffith in Queensland and held by Mr. Rudd and Bennelong in New South Wales held by the Prime Minister were the genuine bell weather seats. Now a change in those seats would affect Governmental change.

The 2007 election has had an enormous pseudo election run up and now a long official campaign. Given these things the bell weather seat could just be one of those things to prevent the public getting bored to death with the two-party system that is thrust upon us.

Perhaps if the media reported on the ability and integrity of the Leichhardt candidates instead of trying to inflict a presidential style election campaign on the voters’, bell weather seats would never have been heard of.

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At the end of week one (1) of this 2007 Federal election, the mainstream media has again demonstrated its unmitigated biased attitude towards all candidates except those of the major political parties.

On Cairns radio, voters are bombarded with party rhetoric and ‘policies’; the major print media publishes colour photos and editorials of only three aspirants; while television stations transmit images and party ideology of only the same aspirants.

AND, that doesn’t account for the current and vastly increasing political parties massive media campaigns, paid for in part with… taxpayer dollars!

The local media treats Leichhardt electors as ‘mugs’ by not providing a comprehensive coverage of all candidates. Democracy… I think not!

The public is aware of this blatant display of contempt for electors who want to be informed via the media as to their choice of candidates, not simply promoting the major parties who will, after the election, continue to dump hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of these corporate media carpetbaggers.

Freedom of the press… hell no!

More like if you don’t control the strings of the taxpayer purse, you’re non-persona grata!

There is no denying that either Howard or Rudd will be the Prime Minister (PM), both elected within the two-party system I hasten to add, however, it is also a fact that Howard has announced he will retire as PM mid-term, thus bowing to his party’s pressure to allow Costello a ‘fair go’ at being PM. That is, if the coalition is successful.

But what about the Australian electorate… when do they get a ‘fair go’?

Australia’s electors have ‘had a gutful’ of the major parties who promote their electorate ‘puppet’ candidates who get little or no input into the decision making by their chosen party ‘hierarchy’ and the associated ‘back-room boys’.

For real democracy… it’s time to elect a credible Leichhardt Independent at this 2007 federal election!

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This ‘How To Vote Card’ saves you the trouble of sorting through pre election ‘policies’ (promises) all of which are flexible to the point of reversal.

It optimises your chances of decent local representation. Universality is achieved through the use of “Categories” rather than “Candidates” and the Candidates within Categories remains your choice.

FIRST CATEGORY:

Independent Candidates

There should be at least one on every ballot paper. These guys are Local, are responsible for what they do, should only do deals in the interest of the Electorate and if they stuff up they only have themselves to blame. Party solidarity is not an issue or for that matter an excuse. The concept of good governance could be influential here. List Independent candidates in the order of your choice. 

SECOND CATEGORY

Minor Parties

This category includes parties such as the Democrats, the Greens and One Nation to name but a few. These parties are generally “voter reliant” as they rely on their public appeal rather than lobbyists for their continued survival. As major party support is continually trying to kill them there is little love lost in this regard. Select the Secular Minor Parties in the order of your choice.

FINAL CATEGORY

The Major Parties

The Major Parties need no introduction. They are the ones who have been stuffing the country up since Federation. They rely substantially on outside support for both funding and publicity and the public interest seldom slurries their debates or outcomes. Once again you can list the Major Parties in the order of your choice but in this case it will be irrelevant as the Major Parties are so philosophically homogenous that your selections will be futile.

REMEMBER…

Enjoy your voting day, as it may be the joke of the year. Vote once only, that’s enough and, if you see a deceased person voting, please remind that person it’s no longer the done thing!

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With Queensland being a pivotal State for the forthcoming Federal Election it’s no surprise that both the Liberal and Labor parties are working the State over, with each party trying to outdo the other’s ‘promises’.

Two examples for the Leichhardt electorate were firstly the walk for the benefit of cancer treatment facilities at the Cairns Base Hospital. The fight for basic funding for the cancer treatment facilities has been going on for years with, to date, the public being the greatest financial contributors. The nominated candidates of both parties, dressed in their party livery, participated in the walk together with an entourage similarly attired.

Prior to the commencement of the walk the sitting member, on behalf of the liberal’s new candidate, announced an $8.3 million funding for the Cairns Base Hospital facility. Now while any contribution to these badly needed improvements are most welcome, it’s no wonder the public become a little cynical when a stunt like this is pulled. Unquestionably, it was a rare transparent act, so much so that the public could see right through it.

The second example of election largesse was the announcement by Minister for Transport, Mark Vaile, that two (2) billion ($2,000,000,000) would be expended to mitigate flooding and improve safety on the Bruce Highway between Cairns and Sarina, with some $800 million to upgrade the Cairns/Townsville ‘goat track’.

Mr Vaile said, “In the budget this year we allocated a total envelope of $22.3 billion to land transport infrastructure”.

“What we will be announcing for the Bruce Highway in Queensland today will be new funding out of that envelope of money.”

Precisely what that means is open to interpretation but clearly again we are most grateful for the money even though he admits the money has already been flagged in this year’s budget allocations and the “new money” tag might be a little presumptuous if not an outright lie.

However, the questions that this does raise are firstly, just how genuine is the government with these offers, being as it seems at least for the roads, money is already allocated, and secondly, what does it say about the quality of Leichhardt representation over the last eleven (11) years.

And just how genuine will they be over the next three years given that most of this funding will not be available until 2009… at the earliest!

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