End to Nanny State
“Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free"
… well kinda free as long as you don't upset noisy minority green groups and overly controlling governments.
Are you sick and tired of being told what to do?
States and Territories throughout Australia are increasingly becoming more and more restrictive, to the point they are often referred to as amongst the most litigious in the developed world. Laws exist constantly telling us where we can and can't go, what we can
and can't do and when we can and can't do it.
The difficulties involved in taking your kid fishing, visiting a national park, lighting a camp fire and boiling a billy, along with the restrictions on what you can do on your own land, have progressed to see us live in not the 'free country' we like to claim, but in an overly controlling nanny state that treats us like children, incapable of making decisions.
Like you, The Australian Party has had enough of this 'Big Brother' attitude and believes rights and responsibilities should be returned to the people who have earned them. If we want to catch a fish for dinner, or build a tree house for our kids, we should be able to do so
- and to do so without having someone looking over our shoulder all the time.
So committed to the return of our personal rights and freedoms is Katter's Australian Party, it has been fixed into the Core Values and Principles of the party and enshrined in our
constitution. We must not, and will not sit idly by and watch the continual erosion of such rights that should be enjoyed by all Australians, and we will continue to fight for a freer Australia, in which the people are free to enjoy every opportunity our great country has to offer.
- "Australians must have the freedom to pursue outdoor recreational activities of their choice including hunting, shooting, fishing, boating, camping, 4-wheel driving, horse riding, rock climbing, and bushwalking without unnecessary limitations and restrictions.
- Vacant land such as State Forest and some unallocated lands and seas now designated as "off-limits" are to be owned and accessible by the people. They are not the exclusive domain of the "Crown".
- Government interference in people's lives must finish at the family fence or property boundary. Legislation overriding all other laws must provide that intrusion and interference upon that household can only occur where human health and life is in serious and immediate jeopardy".
