Everald's election edict

Instead, we just make many welfare handouts every time there is a drought, which is very often. This is the dumbest of dumb politics as our capacity to feed the world will pay for the water investments in the medium term.

An initial investment of 25 billion dollars will get it going. That is just two years of the money that Australians waste on gambling.

Then, we must make a major assault on Affordable Housing. Australia is 500,000 units short due to the fact that negative gearing has caused reckless investment of conventional units that are too costly. They are not designed to meet the special needs of those who are old or handicapped or students, all of whom are priced out of the market.

The problem can be solved by confining negative gearing solely to affordable housing and by governments making airspace above railway stations available free of charge so that accommodation towers can be built with a mix of accommodation for students, the aged and the handicapped.

There are many more major issues that we can tackle but I intend to concentrate my personal election efforts on those three.

But, I will also lend a willing hand to those who are backing a number of significant social concerns. For example, just a few of them are,

*Treating refugees as human beings of value, while ridding our nation of the blot of unjustifiable hatred against them when they have the potential to become productive innovative Australians. We can do it by not electing politicians who go to extremes to win the racist vote.

*Becoming a Republic with a new flag that omits the Union Jack. We are long overdue to stop grovelling before British Royalty and grow up. Those who don’t want to be proud independent Australians might be happier if they migrate to England.

*Allow Same Sex Marriage. Heterosexuals have made an awful mess of marriage but pompously want to sit in judgement of others and tell them who they are allowed to fall in love with.

*Recognise Indigenous Australians in our Constitution. They occupied this continent for 50,000 years before the British invasion and kept the environment in better shape than whites have done.

What I am really trying to convey is that the Australian Election of 2 July, 2016, is the ideal time for the greatest of all democratic revolutions where the Coalition or the ALP are forced to work in partnership with the Greens, Xenophon & Independents to come to a consensus on the great issues that challenge our nation so we become a shining light to a world that struggles desperately to find peace, stability, prosperity and justice.