I agree with you on this point AuAussie. I have had enough draft documents be passed up the chain and the knocked back down due to just one word or sentence to know how careful you need to be in your wording! Edit: I would almost consider removing point 7 which discusses a 'world currency'. Its not that I disagree with what is said, but immediately there are people who will read it and lump you in with conspiracy theorists and all the attendant negative connotatons that label has. I think you can make your point whilst avoiding the more controversial aspects of the topic. It may feel like you are selling out, but to actually have a chance of anyone acting on your roposal they need to be able to sell it to a lot of sceptical people.
As long as Julia Gillar is Prime Minister this is not going to happen! I dont even think the Liberal party has the balls to ask for it. Still - lets expose the emeror's no-clothes secret!
Left-Right (Party A vs Party B) is like Left foot and Right foot, both tread and follow the same path.
It would also be interesting to see the names and address's of silverstacker members on the petition. Just out of curiosity, of course.
True that, but GetUp constantly circumvents any need to forward their members addresses to successfully & effectively lobby the Gov on a number of issues. I don't know how they work around this but they do it.
From "How to petition the Senate" http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Petitions/Senate_Petitions/petitions The online petition will only require a name and email address.
I think Gino is referring to the use of bullion as payment of taxes in kind as opposed to any extra tax.
Yes, as an efficient means of collecting taxes that are payable that would also directly contribute to the national gold holdings. It's a suggestion for consideration only. Again, if you have any suggestions for wording please post here.
3) - include South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, Columbia, Argentina as countries who have recently purchased Gold through their central banks. Source: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article38719.html Also from that article.
Ok. The refined and toned down text is below. I believe it now incorporates all contributions (I missed a couple in the last version). I have a question regarding the appropriateness of including point (a) in the petitioned actions. I fundamentally believe there is a conflict of interest between the RBA as a currency printer and interest rate setter and its role as custodian of the national gold reserve, but I think that it is too prescriptive to start making statements about the Treasury taking on direct responsibility. So my question is "Would it be better to petition the government to re-instate gold as a reserve asset and if so, how should that be phrased?" Both HiHo and mmm....shiney! have made observations on this point. Any suggestions?
After some further reflection a few other changes have resulted that make the whole thing much more concise and meaningful. Without any further input this is the best I can do and at this stage am happy with it. I have sought some external comment.
Does it have to be shipped back to Australia? There are a lot of boating accidents concerning precious metals. Could it be transfered to the Australian embassy instead?
80 Puny Tons of Gold Reserve attributed to the World's largest exporter. So repatriate & give every Aussie a 10th of a ozt. That's about all you get according to my crappy math. Instead of multinat-corps just digging it up, piling it on a private jet & selling it to the Swiss we need to start stacking as a nation. Just like China is doing right now. Restrict a percentage of annual production royalty free to encourage the local reserve & then we will be getting somewhere.
Put anything Australian inside an embassy that the Brits want to get their hands on and they'll put a ring of cops around the place to stop it getting out again.
