Let me rephrase that, the ONLY good thing about Howard is he makes you realise why democracy was meant to exist in the first place, and now so blatantly doesn’t.

So here’s a few things, albeit wishy washy, I actually have an opinion on and care about!

Food
1. Organic food should be subsidised. Our food chain (especially Chicken and Pork) has become so corrupted by so called Agribusiness profiteering that it’s literally causing unprecedented allergies, ADD in kids and general poor health. Food is cheap but good, natural food is ridiculously expensive.
2. Fast food chains must localise their brands, signage and advertising in respect for local aesthetic and custom, as opposed to their blatantly American signage
3. Franchise stores that advise that they sell ‘fresh’ ingredients (McDonalds, Subway, Hungry Jacks), must by local produce from wholesale, domestic market sources, not owned by the franchise. They should be audited to ensure that their food is of market produce quality and of highest possible quality, not the most profitable to the parent corporation or franchisee.
4. Supermarkets by law must stock Fair Trade products in every possible category.

Marketing
1. All consumable media based marketing campaigns (eg CD ROMs, DVDs, cassettes etc) must be based on reusable, rewritable media. Landfill is full of too many ’sign up to AOL now!’ CD ROMS
2. The airbrushing of celebrities’ teeth and eyes to near demi-god like perfection is to be banned in all media. Any ‘airbrush artists’ and their respective publications would be liable

John Howard
1. In Jello Biafran style, John and any member of his current cabinet, must stand out the front of Kirrabilly house in clown suits and be whipped with rotten, battery hen eggs, handed out by independent and Greens pollies.

The Economy
1. Fundamentally, ensure good socialist principals by maintaining an equal share of poverty, not an inequal share of wealth.

Foreign Relations
1. Recognition of Australia as a part of Asia.

Refugees
1. No babies, women or children should be ‘detained’ period. There’s absolutely no excuse for this. Regardless of how they got here.
2. Surely illegal refugees could redeem themselves under some sort of labour loan, similar to what Dutch, Polish, Italian and Greek immigrants were subjected to in the 50s and 60s instead of being jailed? SURELY! Fuck, people are willing to earn their freedom.

Trade
1. ABOLISH FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH THE US OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Free trade simply is a ruse for corporations to remove any environmental or trade laws that get in the way of their profits. For example ‘Dolphin Safe’ Tuna and ‘Clean fuel’ in the US. Both these policies were abolished because (apparently) third world countries couldn’t deliver these products. In actual fact, these laws made got in the way of profit from tuna canneries and oil compaines. So now they deliver second rate products and you pay just as much for them.
2. Foreign corporations and chain stores must have a minimum level of Australian product.