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----- Original Message -----
From: TonyPitt
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: BARRIER REEF > > Barrier Reef National Park - SOLD??? TO: Australians Involved in Tourism As Addressed There is a plan afoot to do a debt-for-equity
swap to expunge our national
debt. The swap includes our northern World Heritage areas. There are only three areas. That means the Barrier Reef and/or the Daintree Tropical Rain Forest and/or Fraser Island will become the property of the IMF/World bank. If you think this is some sort of joke then
please contact Senator Len
Harris, Senator for Queensland, Phone (07) 3202 2300 or Fax (07) 3202 2199, and ask him to send you a copy of his MEDIA RELEASE 23/5/00 - OVERSEAS DEBT FOR NATURAL HERITAGE SWAP OFFICIAL. This is not some new idea. The plan has been
on the drawing board for about
20 years. I first heard of it when someone sent me a clipping from the USA. The article from the Chicago Tribune 20/9/87 reported 'BANKS STRIKE DEAL WITH CONSERVATIONISTS' at the Fourth World Wilderness Congress Denver/Estes Park Colorado Sep 11-18. In 1994 there was a conference held on Fraser
Island to PRIVATISE our
national parks (Source: Maryborough Chronicle 25/6/94). The excuse to privatise was "Governments cannot meet the public's expectations and demands of recreation reserves, national parks and endangered species protection so it is time for the private sector to take a look. How often do we hear that our parks are being 'loved to death'? The reality is that many parks would die for some love - love and attention. That attention costs money. The PRIVATE SECTOR can put dollars into park management PROVIDED THERE IS A RETURN ON THAT INVESTMENT." Then the IMF took the Luneta National
Park from the Philippines to reduce
their national debt. What do you think you will pay to visit an
IMF owned Barrier Reef? Do you
think they will leave the timber on Fraser Island uncut? Will they leave the mineral sands lie there? Will they ignore the oil reserves under the Reef? All the hoo-ha about saving our World Heritage areas for future generations was just that - hoo-ha. The world financiers were just looking ahead. They didn't want us cutting their timber, mining their minerals, pumping their oil, or making money from their tourists. The Amazon forests didn't last long after the financiers got control of them. If you truly love your country you will tell
all of your customers what is
going on. If you are fair dinkum about saving our heritage you will help pay to warn all Australians. This mail out to about 1,000 tourist operators has cost me a lot of money that I can ill afford. It will cost a lot more to put out enough papers to wake the rest of Australia. I will be putting out a special edition to warn as many Australians as possible. If you members or your industry could help with donations to cover printing and postage any such help would be appreciated. This is really a call to action. It will be a
massive task to warn all
conservationists, students and unions of the government's intention to sell our World Heritage areas. We really need to give them information and ammunition to fight the sell-off. Firstly it is a federal government
initiative. National parks are not a
federal responsibility. The federal responsibilities are outlined in the Australian Constitution Para 51. The commonwealth cannot acquire land, other than for defence purposes, without the consent of the states and even then only on fair and just terms. The need to pay Federal debt is no excuse,
especially when the debt was
deliberately created to bankrupt Australia, so we have to forfeit our heritage to get out of impossible debt. The giving of $1bn to Indonesia and $1bn to Thailand to bail out the Asian Tigers was just part of a huge swindle. Australia is an INDISSOLUBLE Commonwealth and
to dissolve it by selling or
ceding territory is sedition. Refer to Para. 1 of the Australian Constitution. I am asking your organisation
to:
1. Check that what I say is the truth by
contacting Senator Harris.
2. Warn your members and get them to photo
copy, write, email, talk, show,
and con vince others to do likewise so there is a cascade effect. 3. Contact every group, club, organisation,
P&C, student body, union,
business, and others loyal to this country. Warn them what is going on. 4. Help with a donation to cover printing and
postage. In the past so many
have left the hard work and expense to individuals that the individuals have given up in dis gust at the lack of physical and financial support. Nobody at National Interest News paper gets paid for the work they do. 5. I would appreciate a brief response from
you as to what action you are
taking so I can keep you informed of any further developments. This is your last chance to derail the sell
off of you children's future.
Will you help just this once? Please! Tony Pitt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. After sending out thousands of these letters I
got $100 in donations to cover postage. |
