We believe mass immigration is a concept whose time has passed. Only five countries in the world now have official immigration programs. ONE NATION wishes to see our current policy replaced by a program where an annual quota could be set to match the number of permanent departures each year, that is up to a zero net immigration program. This is not a zero immigration program as it would admit in order of 30 000 migrants per annum. Our policy is similar in numbers to the policies of the Democrats and the Australian Conservation Foundation and would be supported by the majority of Australian people. The justification for our policy of not exceeding zero net immigration is that: environmentally Australia is near her carrying capacity, economically immigration is unsustainable and socially, if continued as is, will lead to an ethnically divided Australia. Current policy is encouraging large numbers of illegal migrants and it is time Australia, while recognising the contribution made by migrants in the past, sends to the world the message that mass immigration has passed its use by date.

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Principle Two: The Government's Responsibility is to its Own Citizens.

A government's responsibility surely is to protect its people's welfare, security, environment, economy and standard of living. Our Government's responsibility should not be to intending migrants over and above its responsibility to current and future generations of Australians. ONE NATION believes it is the Australian government's responsibility to pass onto future generations of Australians a country to be cherished, enjoyed, and free from the problems of over population and ever growing massive foreign debt.

Previous governments have acted inappropriately through a confused responsibility to other nations. ONE NATION believes international obligations can be expressed through appropriate foreign aid to those most in need.

Principle Three: Australians are the Caretakers of the World's Oldest, Driest, Least Fertile Landmass.

In the face of environmental degradation in Australia we should be proceeding slowly with population growth because growth will only exacerbate current environmental problems. The next generation has the right to inherit a country in a better environmental condition than the preceding era.


Principle Four: Opposition to mass immigration should not be misinterpreted as being an anti-migrant philosophy. One Nation's disagreement is with government policy.

Principle Five: Freedom of speech should be extended to all discussions on immigration and multicultural policies and the cry of 'racism' should not be used to silence debate or to promote violence against those who wish to debate these issues.

Principle Six: Australians, like other peoples of the world, have the right to maintain their unique identity and culture.

It is never immoral to want to retain one's own independence and identity. Those who say that it is, simply will not realise the existence and importance of Australian culture to our people. However when it comes to Third World peoples, culture is suddenly of the greatest importance.

Principle Seven: Our migrant intake will be non-discriminatory on condition that the numbers do not significantly alter the ethnic and cultural make up of the country.

Principle Eight: English is the official language of Australia and government policy will encourage widespread use of English within all communities and in all the institutions of the land.

Principle Nine: Compassion must be extended to genuine refugees but temporary refuge need not extend to long-term permanent settlement in Australia.

Principle Ten: The Government institutionalised, publicly funded policy of Multiculturalism is not in the best interests of migrants, nor of Australia, and will be abolished.

Principle Eleven: No person other than an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident of the Australian community, has a basic right to enter Australia.

Principle Twelve: Any person entering Australia for a period in excess of 6 months must pass both health and character screening.

Principle Thirteen: One Nation has a vision for Australia as a proud, independent, self sustaining, sovereign nation.

2. Economic cost of immigration

'It is time we considered the enormous costs of bringing migrants to this country.'(Paul Keating, Maiden speech to Parliament, 1970)

To cope with our massive immigration program which has produced the fastest population growth in the OECD (except for Turkey), we are spending $12 billion per annum. Australia is forced to build the equivalent of a city the size of Geelong, or half a Canberra, with all the required infrastructure and social services just to cope with one year's migrant intake. Every migrant must be provided with accommodation, food, transport, a job, schools, pensions, hospitals, water, electricity, roads, sewerage, universities and all other basic necessities of modern life. This has been a magor factor in giving Australia one of the highest per capita foreign debts in the world. The pro-immigration Bureau of Immigration and Population Research could not find any economic benefits from our immigration program and concluded that immigration was economically 'benign.' This conclusion was biased as the study omitted the inherent enormous infrastructure costs mentioned above.

Currently our foreign debt is $230 billion, with a current account deficit of about $ 2 billion per month, half of which is due to immigration. It is the impact of immigration on our foreign debt that is continually left out of any immigration or economic arguments. Australia can no longer afford to fund all the services underpinning our standing of living which we, as a community, expect- such as standards of medical treatment and hospitals, aged care, education, pension levels, sewage disposal and road provision. Yet current immigration policy will double our population within 50 years while the foreign debt necessitates massive fund cutting to all our community service. We cannot afford to maintain our current infrastructure let alone keep expanding it to cope with population growth!

Australia still relies heavily on export income from mining and agriculture neither of which requires more people. Indeed, due to trade and industry policies, we now rely heavily on imports for consumer goods which are no longer manufactured here, a demand which will increase with a growing population. The costs of mass immigration have not been offset by growth in export income.

5. Family reunion

Family reunion has been driving our immigration program out of control for many years and with the cutting of total migration numbers would naturally decrease as a category. Why should Australia always be the country in which the reunion takes place? The majority of these people are semi and unskilled and consequently have high unemployment rates. There is no logic in continuing to bring into Australia hundreds of thousands of unskilled people when our manufacturing capacity has been sent offshore and unskilled jobs no longer exist.

Family responsibility should go hand in hand with family reunion and One Nation supports a two year waiting period before a migrant becomes eligible for social security benefits. The Australian tax payer should not be asked to fund family reunion.

Compassionate factors for immediate dependent family members should always be taken into account.

6. Change of status migrants

All change-of-status migrants will be included in the following year's immigration figures.

Change of status opportunities will be restricted and will only be granted if the change is proved to be in the best interests of Australia.

Foreign fee paying students should not presume that they will be able to change their status and remain in Australia. Access to education will not be a backdoor migration route.

7. Decentralisation

Decentralisation is the latest catch cry from those who recognise that our major cities can no longer cope with more migrants. Because of our indebtedness, rural Australia is currently being stripped of all its services and has the highest unemployment youth rates in the country. If we can't look after the infrastructure supporting one of Australia's important export income earning sectors, how are we going to develop rural Australia to support many thousands of migrants.

8. Illegal immigrants

In the 20th Century it is very easy to become an illegal migrant. Europe, USA, Australia and all first world countries are now experiencing a massive influx of illegal migrants. To keep people out, rather than encourage them in, will be the job of the immigration department in the 21st Century.

Current official figures concerning illegal migrants in Australia are inaccurate. About 500 illegal migrants on visitors visas enter Australia every week, primarily through our airports. These people have had no health checks, have few relevant skills, will work for very low wages, are exploitable, meld with their ethnic community and often are forced into crime. Australia needs accurate statistics concerning illegals and a well understood and community supported rationale for detection and deportation.

ONE NATION supports the detection and mandatory detention of illegal immigrants with properly funded deportation services. Deportation is very difficult after many years of illegal residence, but the entire process must be facilitated and funded to enable rapid removal of illegal overstayers from Australia. Proper detection, detention and deportation will act as a deterrent for others.

Illegal migrants will not have access to tax payer funded legal aid and the appeal process.

12. Multicultural policy

ONE NATION understands the desire for migrants to maintain their culture in Australia. But, the desire Australians have to maintain their culture, history and traditions must take precedence. The Australian national culture is unique emphasising a balanced way of life, free of excessive striving and materialism. As in Canada and New Zealand, Australia has incorporated the best features of British culture: a balance of freedom and order, a separation of public service from politics, conflict solving by debate and not by force, violence and insurrection, a tolerance of minorities, economic opportunity fortitude in war without militarism and provision of social services. We have our distinctive art, theatre, literature, film and sport with achievements in science, medicine, social welfare and a unique quality of life.

Our culture has developed historically on the basis of our common experiences and memories, stories and traditions. Australia has a unique political history of which we can be proud. Australia led the way with the secret ballot, the 8 hour day, votes for women, invalid, widow and old age pensions, strong trade unions, the arbitration system and the basic wage. Our culture embodies the values of egalitarianism and mateship. It rejects excessive authority and believes in a fair go, admiration for the battler and a belief in the dignity of the individual.

Currently, successive governments and the media, together with the publicly funded multicultural and immigration elites, have imposed a wholly different cultural vision for Australia: multiculturalism. This policy does not simply mean encouragement of greater tolerance of difference, or the appreciation of ethnic foods or traditions. What we are experiencing now in Australia is a threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values. Threats to our freedom of speech, the freedom of the individual overtaken by group rights, funding given on the basis of ethnicity and race rather than need and our people divided into separate ethnic groups which are funded to stay that way. We see no reason why migrant cultures should be maintained at the expense of our shared, national culture.

Current education practices leave many Australians ignorant of the fact that we owe much of our way of life to our distinctive national culture. The survival of any national culture relies on a common national memory of events, history and traditions. It is such a common national memory which binds people together into a nation. But the policy of multiculturalism attempts to discredit and destroy our shared story and impose upon us a different story. This will produce Australians whose feelings toward the pre 1965 Australia and her heroes will be those of contempt, guilt, indifference or ignorance.

Every variety of culture in Australia today has a mother country where their particular culture can survive and develop. Our unique Australian culture and identity has nowhere else in the world in which to survive. Destroy it here and it is gone, forever.

Multicultural Policy operating through the power of the ethnic lobby is creating divisive ethnic politics as demonstrated through threats of block voting and branch stacking. We see the power of the minority directly influencing the policies which affect the majority, against the demonstrated will of the majority. Are we heading for an Australia where every issue will have to pass a minefield of ethnic and racial voting blocks?

Multiculturalism which has failed elsewhere in the world such as Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Israel, Timor etc. is now being imported into Australia.

The government's unspoken justification for immigration and the result of the policy will lead to the Asianisation of Australia. Our politicians plan an Asian future for Australia. As the then Immigration Minister, Senator Bolkus said, on 6/12/94, "We cannot cut and should not cut immigration because it would jeopardise our integration with Asia". Do we need to change the ethnic/racial make up of Australia for trade? Trade comes and goes, but our identity as a nation should not be traded for money, international approval or to fulfil a bizarre social experiment.

70 per cent of our immigration program is from Asian countries. Consequently Australia will be 27 per cent Asian within 25 years and, as migrants congregate in our major cities, the effect of Asianisation will be more concentrated there. This will lead to the bizarre situation of largely Asian cities on our coast which will be culturally and racially different from the traditional Australian nature of the rest of the country. In a democracy, how dare our government force such changes on the Australian people without their consent and against their often polled opinion.

SPECIFICS OF CATEGORY CHANGES AND NUMBERS FOR A ZERO NET MIGRATION PROGRAM.

The Immigration Program currently consists predominantly of :
(1) Family Reunion
(2) Skilled and Business Migrants.

The Humanitarian Program consists of:
(1) Refugee
(2) Special Humanitarian
(3) Special Assistance Categories.

New Zealand are currently not included in immigration numbers.

THE IMMIGRATION PROGRAM.

(1) Family Reunion
Family reunion historically usually accounts for about 60 per cent of the program with the greatest numbers comprising spouses, fiances, parents and children.

Within the ONE NATION policy, family reunion will be maintained at about 60 per cent. The parent category from countries without an adequate transferable social security net, will be discontinued as these people have been an enormous drain on our social security services. The concessional family category, which includes non-immediate family members such as nieces and nephews will also be discontinued.

(2) Skilled and Business Migrants.
Skilled immigration will comprise approximately 20 oer cent of the program and will be tightly controlled.

The independent skilled category will be abandoned.

Business migration will comprise the remainder of the program.

THE HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM.

The humanitarian program will be replaced by a program of temporary refuge of those who meet the UNHCR definition of a refugee, with repatriation when the situation resolves. The number of places for genuine refugees will remain at 12,000 which are not included in the zero net migration program.

The special humanitarian program and special assistance categories which should never have been created in the first place, will be scrapped.

The total humanitarian program will be decreased whilst accommodating refugees at approximately the current level.

2. Student program

ONE NATION will continue to allow students to enter Australia to undertake full-time courses of study or training. However, such courses must be accredited and registered for overseas students. Since January 1994 overseas visitors to Australia have been able to undertake ELICOS or other non-formal study for up to 3 months and this will continue.

ONE NATION is adamant that educational fees for overseas students will not be used as basic funding for institutions due to lack of funding from the Australian government as has been happening in recent years. Consequently visas will only be allocated to overseas students providing the numbers do not mean fewer places for Australian students.

Overseas students must have the prerequisite studies and other entry requirements for any course. Teaching time will not be disproportionately devoted to overseas students.

As a result of the numbers of students from People's Republic of China who overstayed and/or did not comply with student visa conditions in past years, the entry of these students will continue to be restricted.

Change-of-status and extension principles will apply:

3. Visitors to Australia

Tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian economy in recent years. The Sydney 2000 Olympics will result in further increases in visitor numbers.

ONE NATION will ensure the integrity of our border entry requirements are maintained.

Unfortunately the increasing numbers of illegal migrants is sourced through our airports on visitors' visas. A properly controlled visitor program will ensure tourists are welcome in Australia but ONE NATION will ensure that the detection of illegal migrants for deportation is properly funded and administered.


Citezenship


As a democracy, political authority in Australian society derives from the will of its Citizens. It does not derive from ethnic and multicultural lobby groups or business and intellectual elites with divided loyalties. Therefore, the Australian Federal Government's first duty is to care for the welfare of its citizens. Australian benefits should not necessarily be extended to non-citizens who merely reside here and who use Australian society to obtain the maximal individual advantage for themselves.

Within the ranks of citizens and non-citizens in Australia there are now large numbers who do not feel reciprocal obligations of duty to Australia. Organisations or indiviuals who deflect loyalty from Australia should be sidelined in debates on national issues.

Much current 'politically correct' philosophy pays superificial respect to the concept of citizenship while, at the same time, devaluing and undermining its importance. In the new globalized world the concept of nation, and of citizenship, is being eroded. Pauline Hanson's ONE NATION believes that Australia should be a sovereign nation, not merely a geographical area populated by 'world citizens.'

Pauline Hanson's ONE NATION wishes to see nationhood and citizenship re-established amongst the highest priorities of government. Hence, ONE NATION's policy includes the following:

1. Five year permanent residence before being eligible for citizenship. Time out of Australia within this period must not exceed 18 months.

2. Passing a spoken and written English test to be compulsory before naturalisation.

3. Applicants must pass a test demonstrating a basic understand of Australian institutions, history and environment. Schools will be obliged to teach such material to all students as part of the school curriculum.

4. The advantages of citizenship will be strengthened, ie.

(a)Only citizens can sponsor migrants.
(b) Legal aid will only be available to citizens.
(c) Government employment will only be extended to citizens except where those skills are unobtainable in Australia.
(d) Children of illegal migrants will not automatically be granted citizenship.

5. Non-citizens will be deported for criminal offences where they are subject to being gaoled. Australia will seek treaties with other countries for co-operations in deporting non-Australian citizens. They will be found, tried and sentenced within Australia and deported to their country of origin to serve their sentence. Their assets in Australia will be sold to defray all expenses. If necessary, Australia will contribute to the cost of gaoling in their own country- in most cases this will be cheaper than keeping them in Australia.

6. With regard to citizenship, we believe our pledge of commitment needs to become one of loyalty to Australia and its people above all others.

In conclusion, all citizens will be expected to have an over-riding commitment to Australia and to accept the basic structures and principles of Australia, that is - the rule of law, tolerance, equality of opportunity, parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, English as the national language and equality of the sexes and races.