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Albo banging on that Australia should manufacture more !! He has convenient memory loss.
Previous governments not blameless either.TheLima Declaration and why Australia has lost 98% of itsmanufacturing?
Although signed in1975 by Labor Senator Don Willesee, the Lima Declaration has had far reachingeffects, and can clearly be seen as the blueprint for the disastrous policiesembracing the bizarre philosophy known as “Globalisation”.
The Second GeneralConference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)met in Lima, Peru, during the period 12-26 March, 1975. Theresulting declaration had disastrous ramifications for Australian industry. Thebasic reasoning behind the Declaration was that the drastic plight of theThird World was the result of the rapacious policies of the advanced industrialnations. Australia listed as one of these. The only way to rectify thesituation was to transfer industrial resources from advanced countrieslike Australia to the Third World, then to provide markets for Third Worldexports by buying products once produced locally.
Both major partiesare equally to blame for betraying the nation. The Fraser Government took over whereWhitlam left off, Hawke and Keating increased the tempo of the programme withMr Hawke, Keating, Button and other senior ministers telling unsuspectingAustralians they were working to 'internationalise' the Australianeconomy. The truth is, they were sowing the seeds that has almostdecimated Australian manufacturing and industry and has seen Australian jobsdisappear overseas.
More than half ofAustralia’s manufacturing capacity has been destroyed since 1974 and theeconomic carnage continues while Australia imports vast quantities of goodsonce produced locally. While we're ploughing oranges into the ground,we're buying concentrate back from Brazil. Our car industry has all butdisappeared, steel making is on its knees and our petroleum industry is undersevere threat of being moved overseas. If a situation arises where thereis a serious threat in the region, we will be unable to defend ourselves. The Declaration will leave Australia short of technology, tools and jobsand we can thank scores of useless and short sighted politicians for that - onall sides of Parliament.
In 1970 estimatesnumbered Australian farmers at around 300,000, the number is nowbelow125,000.
A call for changewas made in March 1975 when the Second General Conference of the United NationsIndustrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), meeting in Lima, issued aDeclaration and World Plan of Action.
The LimaDeclaration and Plan of Action called for the redistribution of worldindustry so that developing countries would have 25% of it by the year 2000. Now in Australia we have lost more than 98% of our Industries tothird world countries - along with our jobs . To achieve this,radical changes in traditional concepts and practices are recommended. Economicgrowth in poorer countries could no longer be seen as the “trickle down”benefit of growth in rich countries. To close the gap between rich and poornations the developing countries would have to grow faster than the developedcountries. With this end in mind, the Lima Declaration sets out the “mainprinciples of industrialisation” and defines the “means by which theinternational community as a whole might take broad action to establish a NewInternational Economic Order”.
Wonderwhy we're importing so much fish and seafood from countries like Thailand andVietnam - when we are surrounded by vast oceans? Look no further thanResolution 27 "Developed Countries such as Australia should expand itsimports from developing countries."
Areyou puzzled why so much industry and jobs have moved overseas? Maybe lookat Resolution 35 "Developed Countries (Australia) should transfertechnical, financial, and capital goods to developing countries to accomplishresolution 28 above."
(35)“That special attention should be given to the least developed countries, whichshould enjoy a net transfer of resources from the developed countries in theform of technical and financial resources as well as capital goods, to enablethe least developed countries in conformity with the policies and plans fordevelopment, to accelerate their industrialisation.”
(41) “That the developed countries should adhere strictly to the principle thatthe Generalised System of Preferences must not be used as an instrument foreconomic and political pressure to hamper the activities of those developingcountries which produce raw materials”
(43) “That the developing countries should fully and effectively participate inthe international decision making process on international monetary questionsin accordance with the existing and evolving rules of the competent bodies andshare equitably in the benefits resulting therefrom”
(52) “That the developing countries should devote particular attention to thedevelopment of basic industries such as steel, chemicals, petro chemicals andengineering, thereby consolidating their economic independence while at thesame time assuring an effective form of import substitution and a greater shareof world trade”.
TheUN is a giant unregulated Non-Government Organisation with its sights set on aone world government, where people in power have no loyalties to countries likeAustralia. The Lima Agreement has the potential to turn developedcountries like Australia into non developed countries - no wonder so manyAustralians are worried for their children's and grandchildren's futures.
Likemost Australians, you've probably never heard of the Lima Agreement. Someinformation is available on the buttons below. There is a vast amount ofinformation available on the Internet.
