Bank AGM’s Questions
This sections contains video questions asked at Bank AGM’s that question the orthodox understanding of what private Banking Corporations do.
For example, the average person is not aware that Bank do not lend money, they create the money from nothing that they lend borrowers.
Matt Comyn explains: “We also do create deposits in the system, we expand money supply when we lend money”
Proportinal Representation
(Pre 2022 Election – Update Soon)
Mission Statement
IMAGINE represents pragmatic macro issues that are nonpartisan shot in the dark, indeed a leap of faith, not by a group, an organisation or political party, rather by one naïve individual, a dreamer perhaps, but one that believes that he is not the only one.
The initial fundamental and primary objective of IMAGINE is to change the voting system from one that underrepresents and/or does not represent at least 25% of voters. IMAGINE wants to change a corrupting voting system that gives majority power to two big parties that only a minority has ever voted for, to one where voters are represented by those for whom they vote.
The two major parties will not willingly give up power; in fact they have recently made it more difficult for minor parties by agreeing to lift the party membership threshold from 500 to 1500.
Minor parties and independents with their diverse agenda’s cannot hope to gain a broad consensus let alone the cross party support to implement the change.
With your one time participation and collective vote, IMAGINE can change ‘Big Politics’ to the representative bridging politics of belonging, empowering Australia, its communities and the individuals that they represent.
Questions & Answers
Q. Why should someone that is a Greens supporter or another minority party cast vote one off for IMAGINE in the first round?
A. The Greens received 10.4% of the national vote but that 10.4% is represented by one seat in the House of Representatives. 10.4% of the national vote would entitle The Greens to at least 15 seats. If a Greens voter supported IMAGINE in the first round, in the second round by supporting the Greens they would have a proportional 16 seats in the House of Representatives.
Q. If Australia had an MMP voting system at the last election what would have been the results?
A. The results would have been:
- The LNP = 63 seats
- The ALP = 50 Seats
- The Greens = 16 seats
- Pauline Hanson’s One Nation = 5 seats
- United Australia Party = 5 seats
- Independent = 5 seats (Based on a Hypothetical Alliance)
- Christian Democratic Party = 1 seat
- Animal Justice Party = 1 seat
- Sustainable Australia = 1seat
- Shooters, Fishers and Farmers = 1 seat
- Centre Alliance = 1 seat
- Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) = 1 seat
- Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party = 1 seat
(NOTE: Under an MMP system, voters may exercise their vote in a different way.)
Q. Wouldn’t MMP enable a minor party or a independent to hold the parliament to ransom?
A. Although unlikely, potentially yes, but that is exactly what we have now. Radical individuals within the LNP Government who only a minority voted for, govern with a majority of one and is disproportionately influenced by internal radicals. Let us be clear that the same scenario would exist if Labor held minority power.
Q. What is the difference between a Candidate, a Party and an Alliance?
A. A Candidate and a Party is a political entity that contest an election. An Alliance list is an arrangement between individual like minded independent candidates for the purpose of allocating votes of those candidates that don’t achieve the .67% threshold and/or votes of an independent candidate that exceed the .67% threshold.
Q. How could MMP impact on indigenous representation in the House of Representatives?
A. Individuals that identify as indigenous represent 3.3% of the population. If they chose collectively they could elect 5 members to the House of Representatives. Representation would be direct rather than being subject to the whim and vagaries of the major parties.
- No involuntary unemployment
- No involuntary homelessness
- A minimum living income floor for all
- A living aged pension
- Abolishing compulsory Superannuation
- Community autonomy within a national framework
- Timely fully resourced public NDIS and age care
- Public timely high quality public health and dental
- Public public education from preschool to University
- All existing student debt written off
- Access to Justice for all via a public Law Force
- A first class publicly owned communications system
- A publicly owned national bank
- Public owned not for profit mutual insurance
- Respectful, altruistic, non violent communities
- Reinstating and reclaiming the Commons
- Maintaing & growing the ABC
- A register of Vacant Resources
- Getting rid of the GST
- Federal State funding for the public purpose
- Regulating what the private banks can do
- Replacing GDP with the GPI
- Ending unsustainable perpetual growth
- A shorter working week
- Earlier retirement
- Proportional equity
- No more new fossil fuel extraction
- The development of all low carbon energy
- 50% 2030 Carbon reduction target
- Being carbon neutral no later than 2050
- A National ICAC with teeth
- Repairing our natural environment
- SOE’s involved in manufacturing & Industry
- A fully funded national public transport strategy
- Adopting a mandatory Human Rights Charter
Strategy
Step one:
Before IMAGINE can do anything it must first achieve 1500 members in order to register. The LNP and Labor both recently voted to raise the membership threshold from 500 to 1500 in order to make it more difficult for the minor parties.
Everything is academic until this step is achieved, if you believe that the IMAGINE proposal has merit please help by joining, it’s free.
Step Two:
The IMAGINE strategy is to attract the one off vote (not necessarily the allegiance) of the 25.22% that did not vote for the LNP or Labor, and in addition also attract those voters who believe that not to vote for one of the major parties would be a waste of their vote.
If successful IMAGINE could potentially achieve approximately a third of the vote. This would mean with the help of the dodgy TPP voting system, IMAGINE would likely gain control of the House of Representatives, or at least the balance of power.
If this was achieved with the exception of changing the voting system to MMP, IMAGINE would maintain the contemporary status quo.
IMAGINE would introduce legislation that would task the AEC to reduce the number of electorates, change the electoral system to MMP with a 0.67% threshold and call a new election ASAP.
If collectively you the voter empower IMAGINE, it will give up that power to empower you the voter proportionately.
Step Three:
In the second election a voter would vote with the knowledge that if the total national vote achieved a 0.67% threshold, the individual/party would win the right to represent that 0.67% in the House of Representatives.
In the second election IMAGINE would stand as a movement/party whose only mandate would be to act for the ‘Good Public Purpose’. IMAGINE would stand on a range of progressive policies that raise would take home incomes by approximately 20%, create full employment, build an economic floor that would support all, eliminate homelessness, support the private sector and much more.
IMAGINE Contact Form
Should you have any questions or suggestions, this is where you do it.
IMAGINE will endeavor to respond within 24 Hrs.
Bank AGM Questions
In order to register as a political party ‘IMAGINE’ needs to have at least 1500 members who are on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll and who are not also relied upon by another party for registration purposes.
If you want a fairer electoral system join ‘IMAGINE’, it’s free.
If you want a Federal Government whose only mandate is ‘Good Public Purpose’ policies, please join ‘IMAGINE’.
NOTE: As part of registration the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) will check your details against the electoral roll and will contact some by phone, therefore some fields are compulsory.
Here’s the thing
It really does not matter how you vote in the next election, the result will be a minority government with majority power.
At least 25% of voters will be underrepresented or not represented at all.
The only way this will change is when you, ‘the disenfranchised’ and other fair minded voters, commit to vote (one time) as a block to change the corrupting voting system.
‘The Enemy of your Enemy is your Friend’
In the upcoming Federal election will you vote the same way, expecting a different result or make a ‘one off’ leap of faith and change the system?
IMAGINE challenges voters of all political views, to participate in changing a non-representative voting system to one where they are represented by those for whom they vote.
If you don’t know how the two major parties are disproportionately advantaged by our dodgy ‘Two Party Preferred’ (TPP) voting system, you need to watch this.
John Cleese explains how proportional representation will make UK politics fairer, where voters are represented by those for whom they vote.
John talks about the UKs ‘First Past the Post’ (FPP), however voters have exactly the same issues here in Australia with its ‘Two Party Preferred’ (TPP).
The type of ‘Proportional Representation’ (PR) IMAGINE proposes is ‘Mixed Member Proportional’ (MMP) which enables direct selection of local representation.
Mission Statement
IMAGINE represents pragmatic macro issues that are nonpartisan shot in the dark, indeed a leap of faith, not by a group, an organisation or political party, rather by one naïve individual, a dreamer perhaps, but one that believes that he is not the only one.
The initial fundamental and primary objective of IMAGINE is to change the voting system from one that underrepresents and/or does not represent at least 25% of voters. IMAGINE wants to change a corrupting voting system that gives majority power to two big parties that only a minority has ever voted for, to one where voters are represented by those for whom they vote.
The two major parties will not willingly give up power; in fact they have recently made it more difficult for minor parties by agreeing to lift the party membership threshold from 500 to 1500.
Minor parties and independents with their diverse agenda’s cannot hope to gain a broad consensus let alone the cross party support to implement the change.
With your one time participation and collective vote, IMAGINE can change ‘Big Politics’ to the representative bridging politics of belonging, empowering Australia, its communities and the individuals that they represent.