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Eliminate disastrous National Competition Policy
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The elimination of the disastrous National Competition Policy at a
Federal level, and the immediate non-compliance with such policy at a
state level.
It would be hard to find another single policy that has caused as much
destruction in Australia as National Competition Policy. Under this
policy, agreed to by the states and the Labor Party federal government
in 1991, whatever the High Priests of "competition"the mantra of the
free marketdeemed to be uncompetitive, is summarily condemned to
"deregulation". Newsagents, dairies, utilities, the postal
systemnothing has been spared. In most cases, it can be shown that this
"competitive deregulation" decreased competition, because many small
competitors have been driven out of business, to the benefit of big
business. This is lawful, since the NCP was written by Professor Fred
Hilmer, a board member of two of our biggest companies, Westfield and
Fairfax. Recently, Channel 9's Sunday Program exposed how Hilmer's own
Westfield financed fake community campaigns to stop rival companies
setting up shopping centres in their areas. Like most economic
rationalist reforms, National Competition Policy is a corrupt attempt by
big business and their political servants to grab a bigger chunk of the
economic pie, at the expense of normal Australians. It must be scrapped
immediately.
The elimination of the disastrous National Competition Policy at a
Federal level, and the immediate non-compliance with such policy at a
state level.
It would be hard to find another single policy that has caused as much
destruction in Australia as National Competition Policy. Under this
policy, agreed to by the states and the Labor Party federal government
in 1991, whatever the High Priests of "competition"the mantra of the
free marketdeemed to be uncompetitive, is summarily condemned to
"deregulation". Newsagents, dairies, utilities, the postal
systemnothing has been spared. In most cases, it can be shown that this
"competitive deregulation" decreased competition, because many small
competitors have been driven out of business, to the benefit of big
business. This is lawful, since the NCP was written by Professor Fred
Hilmer, a board member of two of our biggest companies, Westfield and
Fairfax. Recently, Channel 9's Sunday Program exposed how Hilmer's own
Westfield financed fake community campaigns to stop rival companies
setting up shopping centres in their areas. Like most economic
rationalist reforms, National Competition Policy is a corrupt attempt by
big business and their political servants to grab a bigger chunk of the
economic pie, at the expense of normal Australians. It must be scrapped
immediately.
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