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Tipperary Station
Australia's Northern Territory
Australia's tenth largest land holding - 1.9
million hectares
Tipperary owns eight properties in the Northern Territory.
The company began as a joint venture between an Australian property developer and Bakrie
Brothers of Indonesia. Bakrie bought out the Australian property developer in 1994.
The company now runs some 65,000 Brahman cattle.
How does the
Indonesian owned Tipperary Station effect our meat industry exports to Indonesia?
There is a growing cattle fattening industry in Lampung,
with the joint venture company, PT Tipperary Indonesia, running fattening yards in central
Lampung. This is a joint venture between the Bakrie conglomerate and the owners of
Tipperary Station in the Northern Territory. Cattle for fattening are shipped to Lampung
from the Northern Territory.
Profile of Tipperary Station owner
The principal of the Bakrie conglomerates, Aburizal Bakrie,
was born in Lampung, and is of Chinese/Indonesian background.
Aside from his considerable business interests, Aburizal
Bakrie is very prominent in Indonesian business and politics, is the head of the national
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin). He is also an adviser to the
Indonesia-Australia Business Council in Jakarta, and has had long-term business links with
some Australian firms.
The tenth largest tract of land in Australia measuring
nearly 2 million hectares - 13,467 square kilometres -
including some of the only cleared land in the Northern Territory, supposedly for
livestock, is owned solely by wealthy Indonesians, and is largely
free of native title claims.
There are vast tracts of Northern Territory land, currently
available for a pittance, and with no restrictions on foreign ownership up to 100%.
The STRATEGICALLY placed
Tipperary Station, the nearest Northern Territory land facing Jakarta, possessing a huge,
internationally rated all-weather airstrip, sea and river frontage, was utilised by the
Japanese in WW2 who established a forward camp on the banks of the Daly River.
While Australia's Foreign Aid provides the equivalent of
$100 for every Australian man, woman and child into supporting Suharto's Indonesian regime
- $1.7 billion - the Indonesian elite is buying or has bought large tracts of land in the
Northern Territory.
The Australian
government MUST as a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY, implement immediate procedures to restrict foreign
ownership of Australia's land mass and convert current ownership to 10 - 15 year pastoral
leases, with their complying to the same regulations as Australian farmers and graziers.
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NOTE: Tipperary Station
has since (2003) been sold to Australia's richest QC, Allan Myers for a reported
$50 million
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Section
128 of the Constitution
Bills to alter the Constitution, having been passed by
Parliament, must be approved by referendum in a majority of States and by a majority of
all electors voting.
Chapter VIII—Alteration of the Constitution
128 Mode of altering the Constitution
This Constitution shall not be altered except in the following manner:
The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed by an absolute majority of each House of the Parliament, and not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through both Houses the proposed law shall be submitted in each State and Territory to the electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of Representatives.
But if either House passes any such proposed law by an absolute majority, and the other House rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with any amendment to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the first-mentioned House in the same or the next session again passes the proposed law by an absolute majority with or without any amendment which has been made or agreed to by the other House, and such other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, the Governor-General may submit the proposed law as last proposed by the first-mentioned House, and either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both Houses, to the electors in each State and Territory qualified to vote for the election of the House of Representatives.
When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament prescribes. But until the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives becomes uniform throughout the Commonwealth, only one-half the electors voting for and against the proposed law shall be counted in any State in which adult suffrage prevails.
And if in a majority of the States a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority of all the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it shall be presented to the Governor-General for the Queen’s assent.
No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation of any State in either House of the Parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a State in the House of Representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise altering the limits of the State, or in any manner affecting the provisions of the Constitution in relation thereto, shall become law unless the majority of the electors voting in that State approve the proposed law.
In this section, Territory means any territory referred to in section one hundred and twenty-two of this Constitution in respect of which there is in force a law allowing its representation in the House of Representatives.
Australia's Constitution
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Employment
Strategies
The government must understand the fundamental factor of
reversing unemployment, is "JOB CREATION". As I
have stated previously,
Quote, "The major underlying factor that urgently
needs attention is obviously UNEMPLOYMENT. In Queensland, one project alone has the
potential to create over 90,000 permanent jobs, stimulate local shire economies,
and give a massive boost to small and large businesses. This project will cost hundreds of
millions of taxpayers dollars, but is totally returnable, with enormous monetary
gains to the public purse.
I refer to a National Water Grid
(Bradfield
Scheme), the proposed diversion of the upper Tully, Herbert and the Burdekin Rivers on
to the inland plains of North and Central Queensland.
This project requires liaison between all three tiers of
governments to bring about the answer to Australia's future - WATER.
The Australian banking sector, all multi-nationals, take
great pleasure in announcing their $3,000 million plus - annual profits, at the Australian
taxpayers expense I hasten to add. If only 50% of the combined banking sector's annual
profits were applied for re-investment in Australia - the Revised Bradfield Scheme and Australia's
primary and secondary industries - unemployment would be a thing of the past and the
National Debt eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level.
Why doesn't
the Australian government introduce legislation to ensure that Australia's wealth... remains
in Australia?
Should our representatives in Canberra apply the same vigour
in attacking unemployment as they do in making international fools of themselves on Asian
television stations, some of them just may learn of the unemployment plight in rural,
regional and urban communities.
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Buy Australian
All three tiers of governments should be the leaders in
reducing Australia's unemployment, by simply enabling policies that require all government
purchasing departments to BUY AUSTRALIAN goods and services
thus creating huge opportunities for Federal and State governments assisting in the
development of new and existing Australian industries.
It is essential for Australia's prosperity, economic growth
and for the welfare of future generations of Australians, that the Federal government
initiate immediate action to re-establish AUSTRALIAN OWNED
primary, manufacturing and mining industries.
The government MUST stop
wasting taxpayers money on summits, conferences, think tanks etc. and LISTEN to the
Australian people and implement sound strategies that will reinstall faith in Australia as
the Lucky Country.
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NAME:
JOHNSTON, Selwyn Noel Leslie
ADDRESS:
Sailfish Close, Kanimbla (FNQ)
PLACE OF BIRTH:
WEST END Brisbane... QLD
MARITAL STATUS:
Married (1969)
OCCUPATION:
Computer Systems Analyst and Administrator
Editor of 'The Countryman' Newspaper
FAMILY HISTORY:
A 6th generation Australian, a fourth generation Queenslander and a direct
descendant of John Nichols, who arrived at Sydney Cove as part of the First
Fleet, on board the HMS Scarborough on 26 January 1788.
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
Selwyn
Johnston is a sixth generation Australian and a fourth generation Queenslander,
who was born in West End, an inner suburb of Brisbane. He resided with his
parents and two brothers at Holland Park, a southern suburb of Brisbane and was
educated at Greenslopes State School.
After
leaving school, he spent the first six years of full time employment with the
then Bank of New South Wales, now Westpac.
He
joined Qantas Airways in 1966 where he was trained in the Qantas IBM
‘Qantam’ computer system.
The
following eight years saw Selwyn’s involvement in the Airline Industry include
a posting to New Delhi, India where he achieved the unenviable position of
becoming the first Australian to obtain first-hand experience in an
international aircraft disaster.
Selwyn
entered the private sector of the travel industry for two years in 1974 before
changing direction into the hospitality/tourism industry in Cairns, Far North
Queensland.
In
1980, he purchased a small business, which, over the ensuing 10 years, he
developed into a group of companies that included; an interstate transport
company; a rural contracting company, which specialised in pest and noxious weed
control and rural property maintenance.
With
the Information Technology explosion in the early 1990’s, and with his prior
computer training, he studied and achieved the following accreditations:
