The Advancing Prosperity Party

Address: 29 Merriman Crescent, MACARTHUR, ACT, 2904, AUSTRALIA

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES OF THE PARTY

"Without a monetary system based on 'Work Effort' to determine allocation of resources, a 'Shared' system faces the facts that people don't like sharing very much and usually insist on private ownership. The communal system of ownership expressed by many is admirable, but unrealistic and will never universally occur because it does not address core factors of human nature which the current 'Work for your money' system does. OPPORTUNITIES have always been presented to those of lower social standings over their life time. They are, especially in the western world, given very good access to education, which is the PRIMARY OPPORTUNITY OF THEIR LIFE TO DEVELOP THEMSELVES AND SEEK FORTUNE IN LIFE. The lower social classes often remain as such primarily because poor parental attitudes are often carried from one generation to the next. The child which has had enough of his lowly standing WILL SUCCEED through personal ambition.

"In human development theory, one of the key ideas is Nature Versus Nurture - a human is influenced by his nature, yet the way he or she is nurtured affects the total outcome as well. Because of this, and in a natural argument perhaps, some people are more attuned to, say, a US democratic party agenda, and some are more attuned to a US republican party agenda. But then we have strong 'GREEN BASED' environmentalist politicians, and the communistic ideals as well. Each major political initiative has usually as its core idea Prosperity. Prosperity, often for the individual and often for the larger society. Conservatism - the Right Wing - is usually the individually based focus, focusing on entrepreneurialship. Socialistic idealism - the Left Wing - thinks more about society as a whole and especially the disaffected within society. People are different, and there are a variety of human natures - 7 Billion - at work on planet earth to influence and control the overall agenda. A nation perhaps also has a psychology, and some nations are more prosperous and some less so. The challenge for the disaffected is to RISE TO THE CHALLENGE. Sure, we really do need a helping hand, and stronger nations need to help weaker ones - a primary work of the United Nations. Yet life is often sink or swim. That is the truth of the natural order of things. Natural selection in a sense.'
"Life is what YOU make it. Not what Big Brother says in taking care of you."

"Hurting, harming, causing pain and despair and suffering - intentionally - to another human being is a fundamental transgression of morality. Our freedoms and liberties are limited eternally by the freedoms and liberties of others to live free from harm and oppression. We DO NOT LIVE IN A STATE OF INDIVIDUALITY but IN A STATE OF COMMUNITY. For this reason, Conservatism/Right wing theology taught without a sense of community is FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED ON ITS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD. We exist NEEDING others, and for others to NEED US. Liberty is thus morally limited and affected by the rights and privileges of others."

"Conversely, Marxism will NEVER work universally. People are attuned to individuality. It is flawed to pursue this policy of life in isolation from community, but people justify the idea based on 'Providing for their family' (when it is really the individual who mostly want life's glories). This is closer to the system which will prevail in the end. Marxism is corrupt in many ways, because it primarily EMPHASISES the rights of the community, to the negligence of the rights of the individual. Yet socialism shrinks down to nothing without capitalism - without individual achievement to strengthen the whole. When provoking each other in a political system - socialistic policy versus capitalist policy - were both are attempted, a unique balance creates a situation which actually works."

“Ultimately, Prosperity is found in balancing the competing forces of Individual Versus Society. A Centrist Manifesto is key, in which the strengths of the both the right wing and left wing are harnessed by a central body of judgment, which has at its heart the overall point of Government – providing a framework of a lawful and economically viable society in which the pursuit of Wealth, Happiness and Honour – Prosperity – can be achieved. Through focusing individual Enterprise towards benefiting society as a whole, but ensuring a fair, decent and generous overall reward for their own efforts, people can achieve their own ambitions, but realize they also are part of a society which cares for the disaffected and, ultimately, that their tax dollars are benefiting others in employment schemes, work initiatives and social security job programs as well as health and other societal programs, for the furtherance of the society as a whole. To be blunt: You work a degree for your country, but you also get a fair bit of individual benefit as well. The key to success for Centrist Prosperity is to balance the needs of the individual with the needs of society, to try and achieve the happiest and fairest result for all.”

“It is when a society is too far to the left, that a Centrist Party needs to draw from the Right and, conversely, when it is too far to the right, it needs to draw from the left. Stability of Governance blesses a nation, and one of the purposes of a proper Centrist Party is to attempt to stay in Governance as long as possible, through wise economic management and national and international diplomacy. Through this attained stability, should it be realized, the weakness of a left wing or a right wing party is that they inevitably push too far towards their own agenda, to the detriment of the will of the people, and thus the opposing party of the opposite wing inevitably returns to power. A sensible Centrist party needs to have a sense for what the people want at any given time, and in true democratic spirit listen to the people, by pushing either strong left wing or strong right wing policies to appease them. Naturally, some times tough decisions have to be made in the best long term interests of the nation, and the people might not always grasp this, but the usual state of affairs is to sense whether, at any given election time, they wish to push further to the left or further to the right. The nation has a sense of judging itself, and what it needs, and it is important for the APP to be sensitive to the voice of the people, and align with the policy stance at any particular time the people are more strongly desiring of. And remember that often the party needs to lead the way by doing the right thing rather than always the popular thing.”

'The Advancing Prosperity Party represents all who support it. It also represents the Karaite Adamide-Noahide community of the Advancing Noah Movement. Right Wing Policy / Theology is a little bit to 'Wild West' for the likings of Karaite Adamide-Noahide faith. Gun totin rednecks are not our ideological position. The freedoms of political conservatism, the liberties of unabated laissez faire, and the brashness of individualism are not in complete harmony with the centrist manifesto of the Karaite Adamide-Noahide position. Conversely, the mass-conformity, non identity of the self and personhood, the too great insistence of contribution to a societal fund you might not wholeheartedly support, and the lack of the focus on attainment for your own self, family and group you support - the ability to achieve your own wealth and kingdom status, which the left wing socialistic elements propagate - is neither in complete harmony with centrist manifesto of the Karaite Adamide-Noahide position. Too much liberty denies societal unity and too much community denies the power of the one. Karaite Adamide-Noahide faith attempts to balance these competing forces, and utilize the strengths of both positions to bring a more holistic politico-religious structure to society. '

POLICIES

THE AUSTRALIA PLAN - NATIONAL OBJECTIVES (Daniel)

Australia has a constitution. It has a legal framework to settle disputes amongst its citizens. Yet, till now, it has been the part of Australian Citizens and groups and organizations within the Australian Community to form their own plans and objectives for life, if any at all. Political parties also represent a general plan of sorts in their political philosophies. Yet a nation of the 21st and 22nd centuries and so on need a specified Document, similar to a 'Constitution' or a 'Bill of Rights' which establishes the core mission statement of the nation and its key and agreed upon National Objectives. It cannot be a partisan plan - controlled and voted in on by one party only. It needs to be a united position representing the voice and will of the Australian people. Within this plan such structures as Governmental support and planning for businesses and other organizations with a 'Government Service Worker' (GSW) assigned to a Government Sponsored Organizations (GSO), a legal Australian Organization or Institution whose membership or workforce exceeds 500 individuals (as a suggested number) whose objective is to assist and help prosper the organization to meet its own objectives and stay afloat while, at the same time, retaining its contribution to society and the objectives of the Nation as a whole. A GSW should naturally be assigned to all business, as an example, whose workforce numbers is 500 or more, to aid the business in its ongoing profit making initiatives or its voluntary mandates. The Australia Plan needs to focus Australia and Australian citizens on a purpose for the nation, and give a sense of meaning and life objective for the individuals within the nation, especially when many individuals often lack a clear purpose and sense of direction in life.

REGISTERED CITIZENSHIP AND NON-REGISTERED CITIZENS (Daniel)

One of the key policies of the APP is to differentiate between citizenships for those members of society who want 'Freedom' and those who agree to live by the laws and rules and regulations of Australian society. Registered citizenship will be introduced. Registered citizens have full access to the range of Australian Government and Public Service services. They are still required to vote, pay taxes, and enjoy the general benefits of Australian society citizenship. They will be issued an ID card denoting their Australian registered citizenship, which will probably be merged with the Medicare Card. For most intents and purposes life will remain exactly the same for registered citizens. Those members of society, though, who choose not to accept full Registered citizenship will not be allowed to partake of the full ray of the legal Australian lifestyle. They will not be allowed to vote, not allowed to become members of Government, Public Service, or other state controlled occupations, and they will not be allowed to use library services. They will not be issued Medicare cards, and they do not have to pay taxes at all because of all these sacrifices. They will not be entitled to free legal aid, or free education in schools, nor partake of Austudy and any other Centrelink allowances of any kind whatsoever. They may freely use all private sector shops, they may use public hospitals but will have to pay full costs, they may go to public schools, but will have to pay full costs for education. They are still obligated to observe the general laws of society, for the purposes of keeping the peace, but greater degrees of liberty will be considered, determined by the nature of the laws themselves. They will not be required to, in fact, even register births in Australia, but a fee for registering a birth as an 'Unregistered' citizen will be allowed. In relation to issues of vaccination, should they become mandatory, such citizens will be able to make their own choices. On many roads road tolls will be introduced, which they must pay, which registered citizens will be able to use free of charge. This is to ensure that, as they use the roads, they pay a reasonable and fair share for maintaining them.

RAISING THE LEGAL AGE TO 20 YEARS OF AGE FOR DRINKING, DRIVING, VOTING AND LEAVING SCHOOL (Daniel)

Australian society is used to our citizens becoming of legal age at 16 for some things, and 18 for the rest. But in the judgement of the APP this is too young. For example, most of us know that it is younger people who are responsible for most of the reckless behaviour involving alcohol, and it is certainly younger people involved with the higher degree of motor vehicle accidents. In our view 18 is just honestly too young to allow alcoholic drinking in public places, and the granting of driver licences. Further, to be a truly prosperous country we simply must educate our children more so. We propose the mandatory education of youth to 20 years of age, and adding in year 13 and year 14 to the curriculum, which must all be completed. It is important to more properly mature our youth so that they can more firmly and responsibly take their part in society.

LEGAL AGE FOR SEXUAL RELATIONS TO BE REDUCED TO THE ONSET OF PUBERTY (Daniel)

Puberty is nature's signal that a human is ready for sexual activity. We see little point in mandating an age for sexual conduct, as the biology of the body determines when it is appropriate. This is usually in the very early teen years, so if a legal age must be set we would have it reduced to 13 years of age.

RECYCLED WATER (Daniel)

Recycled water is actually very clean water and fine for drinking. If you watch documentaries on it, you will find it is very clean water. But it just has a stigma associated with it. However, if they recycled the water in plants on the edges of cities, and then pumped the water upstream quite a bit to pour it out into the rivers of our catchments, and let the water 'Naturalise', it would lose its entire stigma. The result would be enough clean, safe and 'Natural' water for us too drink, which has lost its stigmatization.

MEGA-CITIES (Daniel)

With the world of the future encroaching upon our lives every day, population issues eventually become a problem. The Canberra of tomorrow eventually has to face this daunting issue. Cities need to do more, and provide more, with less land as a natural resource. The idea of Mega-Cities is to put aside a suburb of about a square kilometer. Large skyscrapers are built in the suburb - 2 dozen or so - going a number of miles or even more (now architecturally feasible). One of the scrapers is set aside as a food production scraper. It would incorporate a sewerage system in the basement, a series of mirrors would be used to reflect the natural light from outside on each level for inexpensive lighting, you would utilize solar powered sheets on the walls of the scraper for energy, and build a wind turbine energy generator on the roof. On the hundreds of levels you would have aquaculture, horticulture and a farming industry. Soil - the world has plenty of it - could be cultivated and placed as earth within various levels and grass grown on the soil within each level to feed animals and grow appropriate vegetable crops. The natural lighting from the mirrors help them grow and with the energy from the solar and wind generators you can use additional lighting and power when necessary. Appropriate air conditioning would be put in place and appropriate water recycling systems used for the food tower. In the remaining scrapers the growing population would be used as well as providing for industry. With the great height of the mega city scrapers we can now theoretical build, potentially millions of people or more could fit in a standard suburban mega city suburb.

BULLET TRAIN (Daniel)

We follow traditional ideas for a Bullet Train for Australia. We support the Australian Bullet Train Party's core ideas, and I doubt we'd do very much different from their agenda.

TERRAFORMING MERCURY, VENUS AND MARS (Daniel)

One of our core projects is to work with the Australian Space Research Institute for the goal of Terra forming Mercury, Venus and Mars for human habitation. Partnered with NASA, we would invest billions into research and development to achieve the objective of literally colonizing these planets and building a Stellar Civilization. As an example, the colonizing of Venus, which is our first priority involves: Reducing the temperature of Venus' surface from 462 degrees Celsius to a more moderate degree. Eliminating most of the planets dense carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide atmosphere, via removal or conversion to a differing state, and the implanting of oxygen into the atmosphere, likely through planting of greenery. A variety of approaches to accomplish this could include: Solar shades based in space to block the sun's heat. Reflective floating balloon cities to block the sun's heat around the planet, whose number would need to be vast. The building of a physical 'Green House' environment over the surface of Venus, to block the sun's rays, made from the raw material of Venus itself, with filtered light and venting to balance the requirements for temperature and atmosphere. Introduction of Hydrogen into the atmosphere to produce elemental carbon (graphite) and water by the Bosch reaction. This hydrogen could be obtained from the gas planets or their ice moons. There already exists literature on this idea, and it would be researched by the Australian Space Exploration Authority to achieve the objectives.

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS ENTERPRISES (Daniel)

PROPOSAL

I propose the formation of Government run businesses (GBEs), especially in fields in which they can make money. They are a business enterprise established by the Federal and State Governments, the workforce of which is made up of centrelink payment recipients. I propose that, to be eligible to receive a centrelink allowance AND if one is capable of working to receive an income, then legislation be introduced making it mandatory that such recipients be involved in (apart from other legislated activities) the work of a GBE. GBEs could be made flexible to the requirements of the Private and Public Sectors in relation to each sectors unemployment rate. Theoretically, when the Private and Public sector Employment rate increases, GBEs could decrease staff numbers in a reciprocal response. Correspondingly, when employment decreases, GBEs could increase staff numbers in a likewise reciprocal response. Theoretically, through careful management, there is no real need for any citizen who desires to work and further their quality of life not to be able to gain some sort of working experience on a permanent basis (if such is what each individual desires), through the interaction between Private and Public Sector employment and GBE employment. It should be the goal of society to have every work-capable individual employed.
UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY.
The advantage of GBEs is that they can provide permanent employment for the less 1success-oriented2 and 1skill-focused2 individuals (of which society will always have a certain percentage), to also be able to know that the broader society also desires them to be able to realize their dreams and aspirations. The prevailing philosophy amongst western economics is that each individual works to maximize their opportunities and advance themselves in the economic situation. The reality is that, while this has a degree of truth in it, many citizens are less ambitious in terms of career objectives and working to realize them, than more driven citizens. An intelligent and humane economic policy will take this socio-economic, anthropological reality into account, and shape policy accordingly. In essence we should ask, through knowledge of social history, what are the strengths and weaknesses of society as a whole. What are the capabilities of ALL our citizens. Government in Australia should, as all governments ideally should, be focuses on the standard of living for not just one special interest group or groups but aimed at satisfying the material objectives of ALL citizens great and small alike. The term 'Value Each Citizen' should be the core of the heart of every individual, group and political party involved in the business of administering and governing society. Because of this, it is important to assist, wherever and whenever possible, those less motivated citizens to likewise realize their dreams and aspirations.
A GBE which is carefully managed to meet the employment realities of a nation can provide a framework in which:
* Security....
* A sense of belonging
* A sense of contribution
* The realization that over the long-term, their economic situation will gradually improve (through the proposed incrementally increasing wage system)
* Actual contribution to the economy,
are realized.
Realistically, when unemployment is high, full-time permanent employment within the Private and Public sector systems cannot be realized for every citizen. However, even when unemployment is high, we still maintain a system of social payments (traditionally called social security, welfare or centrelink allowances) to those most greatly disaffected by the economic situation this is part of the compassion of Australian Society, and an important and vital moral and ethical precept. As we can maintain such systems, common sense dictates that while they are in place, it would be best to maximize their usefulness. Putting it simply, if we are providing allowances for citizens who are unemployed which is part of our obligations, based on physical needs it is in societies best interest to utilize this potential factor of production – labour - in the furtherance of the national economic situation. The work for the dole scheme is a current example of this in action. However, more can and should be done. GBEs have the potential to not only produce an income for those individuals disaffected by the economic situation during times of high private and public sector unemployment 6 but to actually contribute to the economic situation through government run business initiatives in areas which will be beneficial to Australia as a whole.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
For example, the textiles industry in Australia is almost extinct due to superpower china. GBEs in this area for which highly-skilled staff are not always required (which is often what the unemployed sector of society is replete with) could, primarily due to the simple fact that wage costs already being met by our social security obligations actually be able to compete with the imported products. Australia has many natural resources. Through various GBEs, many of these resources could be exploited at a low cost to enable Australia to be which is the ideal self-sufficient in more areas. These resources could be utilized by, for example, the textiles industry, to provide cheap raw material to produce low-cost goods. Naturally this economic reality is realized when private and public sector unemployment is high. When this is low, GBE output decreases. However, as private and public sector unemployment is in fact low at this time, the economic objective of full employment is still being met
UNDERCLASS
Would this create an underclass of workers through applying this approach? The stark reality is that, to create a better future for Australia, is the BETTER option for the economic situation of the nation for people in receipt of centrelink allowances to be physically employed and working for their allowance and contributing to the economic situation through the medium of the GBE (which will ultimately foster growth and economic prosperity) than not to be so utilized. Putting it simply, it is in their own and Australia's best long-term interest to be employed in a GBE 6 for whatever duration until the economic situation improves. Further, while critics may suggest employment in a GBE is of less value for the individuals sense of status, remaining in a GBE long-term means that their economic situation and thus status will improve (due to the proposed incremental hours and wage system). In regards to the notion of incremental wage increase over time, this will ultimately have to be flexible to the economic realities which face the nation at any particular moment However, an incremental wage system, to the point of which long-term service is rewarded, should be feasible in some measure and is, of course, the ideal. It is only just and fair that people be rewarded for long-term contribution to the economic situation of the nation, with a corresponding and appropriate increase in their allowance, usually incrementally adjusted with a corresponding obligation to increase hours worked to justify such an increase.
POTENTIAL GBEs
*Textile, clothing and manufacturing industries
*Farming industries For example Fruits and vegetables. The same factors which make the textile industry feasible for GBEs (ie generally only a requirement for low-skilled workers), make this an ideal potential GBE market. Likewise, it could re-enter in a much larger degree Australia's internal involvement in this market, for which imports are strongly competitive
*In essence, any industry in which low-skilled workers could be utilized, that are not currently being greatly served by the economic situation in the private and public sectors.
LONG-TERM POTENTIAL
GBEs have the potential of revitalizing areas of the Australian marketplace which suffer due to global competition especially amongst low skilled working nations and their imports into Australia. GBEs are an excellent avenue through which Australia's own low-skilled workforce can be utilized. As the GBE becomes established, it may even potentially compete in the export market (which the low cost of labour suggests is possible). People employed in GBEs, due to the proposed condition that such employment be on a permanent basis 6 are also, through experience
gained in working in the GBE, capable of contributing their own ideas to the long-term prosperity of the GBE (as realized in all companies). Human nature teaches us that when people are part of an endeavour, and feel as if they are being made use of in an appropriate way, are often more willing to contribute ideas that will enhance the economic prosperity of the organization of which they are a part. In essence, if they feel they have a long-term stake in the initiative, which the GBE should ideally be able to realize, they are far more likely to act in the best interests of the organization. They would sense that it is furthering their future economic prosperity by doing so. Ironically, more career focused individuals within the private sector often act primarily to achieve their individual career objectives, often resulting in organizations losing vital labour resources, which they had often worked quite hard to obtain. Low skilled workers in GBEs are usually more desiring of permanency in employment often understood as a form of security but have the long-term potential of contributing not only stability to an organization, but reliability of the labour factor, which will more greatly help an organization meet its organizational objectives. NOTE: The innate human desire for permanency in various situations such as marriage, club membership, sporting team affiliations, employment and other areas, really needs to be taken into account and realized when formulating economic policy. The labour market is a mixture of those looking for ongoing change of employment to satisfy career objectives, and those who more greatly desire permanency. Sensible economic policy will be formulated taking into account this social reality. The recent economic attitude of continuous training of workers while appropriate for an economy of ever changing economic variables (such as supply and demand, technological innovations, environmental concerns etc), is not as greatly needed for certain industries, such as textiles, manufacturing, farming etc the very industries in which low skilled workers can be placed, and GBEs become a reality.