Candidate for Solomon
House of Representatives - Federal Election 2016
Endorsed by the Marijuana (HEMP) Party

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On July 2nd 2016:

Vote 1 Lance Lawrence
Candidate for Solomon - House of Representatives.
Endorsed by the Marijuana (HEMP) Party.

A man you CAN trust.

The Marijuana (HEMP) Party, as a single issue party, have endorsed my policies on Aboriginal health and education.

POLICIES

Adequately resourced remote and Aboriginal education

• The same ratio of ESL students to teachers in remote schools as in urban areas. Currently 27 to 1 authorised by the unions, as opposed to 12 to 1 in urban areas. Increased funding for Teacher’s Aides.
• Further investment and continuation of successful cultural, language and education programs.
• Effective cross and inter-cultural campaigns into Aboriginal citizenship: educating countrymen that their vote holds power. Currently 50% of the population is not on the electoral roll. They should be.
• Support the Gonski Reforms and the Northern Territory Council of Government Schools “Student Based Needs Funding Model”

Better health, better bodies, better prospects for Aboriginal people

• Self-sufficient agriculture for all urban and remote Aboriginal communities: let them have their bodies back.
• Concerted efforts between government and interested public organisations towards the upkeep and development of existing successful Indigenous industries and programs: rangers, arts and craft, local indigenous industries.
• Transparent, results-focused and across the board investment into new industries towards Aboriginal self-determination and self-sufficiency.
• Improvements in Aboriginal health delivery services. More efficient. More accountable. More available.
• Put an end to the decades-long, neglectful bi-partisan trend of focusing on short term, politically expedient results and outcomes that has cut short so many community development programs. A long term, generational commitment towards improving all areas of remote community life is necessary. Infrastructure, services, local engagement, intercultural communication and collaboration: towards Aboriginal self-sufficiency.

A treaty for our Indigenous People

• Australia is the only nation in the world that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples.
• To begin to redress the legacies of Colonialism, we need to immediately negotiate a treaty with our Indigenous people rather them being relegated to a pre-amble in our Constitution.

Arts and culture crucial to society

• Recent axing of Australia Council for the Arts funding was outrageous and branded Carnage by the industry, decried as a move to cripple the sector. The Arts provide a vital and necessary platform for cultural expression and Australian culture as a whole.
• Funding levels needs to be returned to their former ratios and increased.

Government accountability

• Accountability, accountability, accountability.
• Transparency, transparency, transparency (Turnbull’s conflict of interest with banks and the pharmaceutical industry).
• Governments are elected to represent people, not financial interests. Political donations should require full disclosure as to their source and conflicts of interest investigated as a matter of corruption.
• Growth for the sake of growth is the premise of cancer.

No fracking for the Territory.                      

• Water and Life are inseparable. No matter the promises made to the economy by harmful industries, who wants to build a house if you don’t have a sustainable planet (environment) to build it on?
• Sustainable and environmentally friendly primary industries. Mining, while beneficial, is turning the Territory into a toxic dump. Mcarthur River. Pine Creek Goldfields. Uranium Park (Kakadu). Mount Todd.

Stop selling off the farm

• Australia being sold off to foreign interests.
• 25% of pastoral leases in the Territory are wholly or partly owned by foreign entities.
• The selling off of Port Darwin to foreign interests by our unelected Chief Minister without any consultation equates to treason. This process ought to be reversed.

Bag of stolen lollies

• Australia has for too long been treated like a bag of stolen lollies by those giving it away to all and sundry. Land and minerals administered by the crown are supposed to be held in trust for the people.
• Politicians clearly hand in hand with big business seek to advance their own interests that benefit only a selected few. This collusion should be considered a criminal act.

Taxation and the big end of town

• Super-profits should be subjected to a Super- tax. The mining tax should have been implemented. Australia needs to adopt a sovereign fund model the likes of the one in Norway, which could fund nearly ALL socially progressive and people-focused areas of our society.
• Big business should pay for the privilege of trading in Australia or extracting resources that belong to the people, with adequate proportional taxation rates.
• No tax for the rich? No way.

Ending the prohibition against Cannabis.

• Let’s do Cannabis better.
• We need to disassociate Cannabis from other harmful illegal drugs. Implying that cannabis is as dangerous as Ice, heroine etc. is like putting a light beer and a bottle of metho in the same schedule.

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Marijuana (HEMP) Party Policies:

Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party

• to re-legalise and regulate Cannabis for personal, medical and industrial use.
• to allow for health education, home growing, and regulated sales through registered outlets which will separate Cannabis from the criminality of the black-market and end consequent associated corruption.
• to allow medical use, utilising Cannabis’ painkilling, relaxing, anti nausea and healing properties.
• to establish a commercial hemp industry producing fuel, fibre, paper, textiles, food, oil and other environmentally sound products.
• to release all those imprisoned for Cannabis alone and the removal of all records of previous criminal Cannabis convictions.

Reasons to VOTE 1 HEMP.

1. To alleviate the suffering of the chronically or terminally ill.
2. To enhance the environment by replacing environmentally unsound products.
3. To reduce avenues of fast cash for terrorists, insurgents, arms traders, and security organisations.
4. To reduce the flow of Cannabis money to criminal gangs.
5. To limit corrupting temptations available to Police, Customs Officials, and Prison Guards
6. Decriminalisation of hemp would drastically reduce Police workload, and free officers to tackle genuine crimes where it is not as easy to gain high arrest rates.
7. To remove an avenue for scaremongering by opportunistic politicians and journalists.
8. To hopefully lower the price of hemp or Cannabis.
9. To put an end to using dogs as a tool of discrimination against a harmless sector of the community.
10. To put an end to the marginalisation of Cannabis users, indeed to try to put such petty behaviours to rest in many areas of politics.
11. The HEMP Party would undertake to try to ‘keep the bastards honest’.
12. To allow people to enjoy a spiritual, relaxing experience – legally

More on HEMP Party policies.

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