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South Australia may introduce Citizens Initiated Referenda (CIR)

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14 June 2002 23:02

Hello Deanna Gill

Thanks for your email.  Today I sent the following email to some of the people you emailed.  Peter Ramsey has replied positively.

Regards

John  Robertson

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re Peter Lewis’ Compact for Good Government

Hello 

I am John Robertson and like you, I received an email from Deanna Gill.I studied the Compact and like it.

I did not know Peter Lewis had a positive feeling for Citizens Initiated Referenda (CIR) but if ever South Australia adopted CIR I would set out to improve the lifestyle of Rural South Australians and others by initiating reforms as a citizen.Your positive and negative comments to help start a public debate on my proposals would be most welcome.

Law: Australia does not have Human Rights Legislation.SA should lead the other States and the Commonwealth by enacting Human Rights Law.I have first hand knowledge of corruption in SA Law Courts; details can be provided, click.

With excellent Law, excellent businesses and people would be attracted to SA.

Money: With modern computers it is ridiculous to tax in obsolete ways.1% tax on all credits (deposits) and on all debits (withdrawals) in the banks and other finance houses would provide the SA Treasury with too much money.All existing SA taxes would be scrapped.SA would then lend its surplus money to the banks at 1% who in turn would lend to businesses and homebuyers at 3%.This low cost money would attract excellent businesses and people to create full employment in SA.

People and Corporations evading the 1% tax would be fined ten times the tax evaded and be barred from the low cost money for ten years.In addition, their competitors and others would have the right to claim treble damages in the civil courts for losses suffered by paying their tax while the evaders did not pay tax, so causing unfair competition.

State Retirement Pension: To increase the money movements and therefore SA tax receipts and money available for low cost loans, an Old Age Pension equal to 20% of the Commonwealth Age Pension would be paid.This would attract people to SA so further boosting business and employment opportunities.

With the SA economy fixed, money would be available for better supplies of electricity, water, health services, education, transport, environment services, police, emergency and human services.

As one example, ample low cost money could finance wind turbine electricity generation.  Port Augusta would be a good site as the existing power grid system radiates from there.  The Flinders Ranges and Spencer Gulf combine to provide suitable wind farm sites.   Off-peak electricity could pump seawater into a hydro electricity dam on the Flinders with the exhausted water from the hydro-electric scheme flowing into Lake Torrens and Lake Eyre.  Surplus clean electricity could produce clean hydrogen fuel.  The additional lakes water would cause more evaporation and therefore more dew and thunderstorms. 

Living in Rural Areas would be enhanced by employment opportunities via the Internet and by the servicing of aged people wanting to enjoy their retirement in Country Towns.

So, what do you think?

Regards

John Robertson 

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First Reply

Hi John,

I agree with you on the 'Compact;' with the 'CIR' & 'Debits Tax' being workable propositions for South Australia.

I also agree Port Augusta is an ideal site for infrastructure such as your 'Wind Farm - Hydro' project as it is about to become the cross roads of the country's rail system.

Opportunities abound.

I have for some years been touting to politicians my idea for a 'Very High Temperature Incinerator.'

See the attachment; it is only a brief as to how it works.

Thank you for your interest.

Peter Ramsey

VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE INCINERATOR (‘VHTI’)

With the completion of the Adelaide Darwin rail line come some advantages.

This will put Port Augusta at the crossroads of Australia, & if you read further, the world.

Probably the jewel in the crown we have not yet looked at.

One of the major problems facing every continent, is the disposal of waste.

(The U.K. in the past dumped 500 million tonnes of sewer waste a year in the ocean; it now incinerates it)

The downside of such a venture is the initial cost, (approx $5billion) but the benefits would return that cost very quickly & many times each year after that.

The waste can be imported to Port Augusta by sea or by rail.

A ‘VHTI’ turns large amounts of toxic (including low level radioactive) waste into small amounts of inert waste.

The waste is returned to its country of origin in the form of either soda ash or vitreous blocks.

At worst, this now safe waste can be returned to landfill.

The ash can be used as a concrete additive.

It is also simply made into super strength blocks, suitable for building dwellings, bridges, road bases, causeways, reclaiming the sea, etc.

Blocks made from the ash waste can withstand extremes of erosion & heat.

Another by-product of a ‘VHTI’ is a vast amount of intense heat.

This would be used to generate huge amounts of power, which could be easily put back into the national grid.

Seawater, which is delivered by way of the gulf on which the town is situated, could be desalinated quite cheaply with the amount of intense heat available.

The water quite apart from supplementing the driest state with fresh water, would allow settlement & expansion on a commercial basis in the far north of South Australia.

Recycled water from these developments would in turn support agriculture on now barren yet fertile soil, through which much of the railway runs.

The technology is mainly simple physics, & already available to bring the procedures to reality.

From:John Robertson

To:Peter Colin Ramsey

Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:41 AM

Subject: Re: re: cir

Hello Peter

Thanks for your support.  I am setting up a sub-directory in my UK Website to expand public interest and comment.

As you agree with CIR and Debits Tax can we look further on to our competing projects.  I see that VHTI would cost $5billion.  What would the stages be? 

My proposals would be constructed progressively in accordance with the money flow; can VHTI show a return on capital cost before the whole $5b is spent?

My specialty is tax and banking and if it is more feasible to start with VHTI than with windfarms that is fine with me.  And if someone comes up with better ideas, that is better still. Every worthwhile project can be financed in its time.

In due course we need to put forward an easy to understand and unambiguous petition for CIR. 

Regards 

John 

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From Peter Colin Ramsey perter@ihug.com.au

19 June 2002 01:15

John,

I believe the cost of setting up 'VHTI' would be returned very quickly & create a very good income.

Waste for other countries could be treated at a price, & the residue returned to that country, in varying forms.

The vitreous blocks created from the waste are also marketable.

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