Citizens Electoral Council - Platform

Platform

In 2001, the Citizens Electoral Council published "What Australia must do to survive the Depression", that outlines the party's policy to enact, development programs, academic writings by Lyndon LaRouche and a brief "history" of how the CEC was marginalized by the Hanson mobs.

"What Australia must do to survive the Depression" also has draft legislation for "the establishment of a National Bank and State Banks for provide loans at 2% or less to agriculture (family farms), industry and for infrastructure development" that in 2002 they launched a petition drive to support with a full page advertisement in The Australian newspaper. "Rebuild the Country with a People's Bank" being a predominant slogan on their election material.

In early 2008 the CEC started campaigning for a "Bank Homeowners Protection Bill of 2008", calling for legislation in the spirit of the Moratorium legislations enacted in the 1920s and 30s by Australian governments.

The official thirteen-point platform is as follows:

• The establishment of a "New Bretton Woods International Monetary System".
• The establishment of a National Bank and State Banks.
• The repeal of all federal and state anti-union legislation
• The repeal of recent laws, such as the Australian anti-terrorism legislation, 2004, which the CEC believes have "taken away the civil rights of Australians"
• An immediate halt to the privatisation of Commonwealth and State assets and regulatory bodies
• An immediate moratorium on foreclosures of family farms
• The immediate elimination of the National Competition Policy
• The elimination of the Goods and Services Tax
• The reassertion of national control over Australia's oil and gas and huge mineral resources
• A "dramatic expansion" of resources to all public health facilities
• A "dramatic upgrading" of federal and state infrastructure
• A "real war on drugs"
• The establishment of "generous immigration quotas"

The CEC follows the LaRouche line of skepticism towards the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Having lobbied the ABC to screen the film The Great Global Warming Swindle, then packed the audience for a post-program audience discussion with members who made comments about "carbon 14, eugenics, Plato's cave and Nazism", referring to fears of global warming as "Hitler-Nazi race science... this will destroy Africa".

The CEC also makes claims "the Crown, it's oil and resource cartels and media assets are responsible for looting Australian Citizens." And declares the party's opposition to "synarchists", which they define as "a name adopted during the Twentieth Century for an occult freemasonic sect, known as the Martinists, based on worship of the tradition of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte...twentieth-Century and later fascist movements, like most terrorist movements, are all Synarchist creations." In opposition the CEC stands for "...a Republic and a government that governs for all the people..."

In its campaign literature, the CEC claims to associate itself with "a tradition" including such Australian figures as the Rev John Dunmore Lang, King O'Malley, William Guthrie Spence, Frank Anstey, Daniel Deniehy, Jack Lang, Ben Chifley and John Curtin. The CEC also seeks to associate itself with a "bygone tradition" of the Australian Labor Party, by which it appears to mean the democratic socialist and protectionist policies abandoned by the ALP since the reforms of Gough Whitlam in the 1960s and 1970s.

The CEC website advocates a number of positions of the worldwide LaRouche movement, including that the Port Arthur massacre, in which Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and injured 37 others, was instigated by mental health institute the Tavistock Institute on the orders of the British Royal Family. and that the Australian Liberal party was founded by pro-Hitler Fascists.