BAD DAY MATE. AUSTRALIANS LIVE BY THE BIG LIE AS WELL. AUSTRALIANS LACK REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

If you have read my recent works, you know about the Big Lie. If not, take a look at these:

• THE BIGGEST LIE ALMOST ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE: AMERICANS HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. BERNIE, HILLARY AND ALL OF THE CANDIDATES LOVE THE BIGGEST LIE
• CANADIANS VOTE FOR PRETTY-BOY JUSTIN TO DICTATE TO THEM FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. CANADIANS ALSO LIVE BY THE BIG LIE

If you are a freedom-lover like I am, you will spread the message of these works to everyone whom you know. If you are in politics and part of the establishment, you better become fearful rather quickly. Your scam will be coming to an end faster than you ever could have believed.

Likely, Australians like their Canadian and American counterparts believe they live under a fair governance of representative democracy. Likely as well, Australians have been indoctrinated to believe so the same as Canadians and Americans.

Reality is far different from what Australians believe about their country. Unlike Canadians and us Americans who have the right to vote, you Australians have the duty to vote. Your lawgivers have granted themselves the right to force you to vote or face consequences of their designs. 

Your AEC will bully you for a $20 fine and up to a $170 fine if you end up in court. Of course, you will be forced to pay for all of the freeloaders working for your courts as well.

The Parliament of Australia is much alike to the Canadian parliament as it consists of a Governor-General representing the Queen of England, a Senate and a House of Representatives. Unlike the Canadians, but like the Americans the Australians elect their senators. And like the Americans, an equal number of Senators from each state, regardless of population, comprise the Australian Senate.

The Australian House of Representatives is much like the American House of Representatives and the House of Commons of the Canadians. It is with their House of Representatives that Australians believe they have popular representation the same as Americans and Canadians believe.

And like Americans and Canadians, Australians do not have popular representation at all. All Australians have is a vote and not even a voluntary one.

I will state it again for the benefit of my Australian friends. Voting is mere illusion. Voting does not equal representation.

Australians have suffered right from their beginning with a lack of popular representation unlike Americans who had popular representation until at least 1860.

Right now, here is how your MPs breakout by state or territory.

And here is the picture of how many voters each MP has by province. Likely, you will notice the data deals with Australians 20 and over even though the voting age in Australia is 18. Well, you can thank the Australian Bureau of Statistics for making it quite hard to get hold of the data needed to produce these charts.



When you discover that on a full-time, 40-hour work week with no time in Canberra, a MP could give a scant 59 seconds on average to each of his adult constituents, you will see the big lie about representative democracy for what it is.

Now, if Australians were to have a truly representative democracy, one where each Australian could at least sit with his or her representative for 15 minutes, once a year and still have their representatives go to Canberra for three months to hash out the only most important matters of Australians, here are the number of representatives Australians need by each states.

Australians in New South Wales need almost four times as many MPs as there is for the whole country right now! Keep in mind, these numbers would be worse if the Australian Bureau of Statistics had the census data for 18 and 19 year olds.

And here is what it would look like if MP only gave 10 minutes to each Australian, 20 and older while still hanging out in Canberra for three months. 

My Australian friends. You have one problem. It is the same problem my Canadian friends have and my fellow Americans have. You don't have a representative democracy. You live under a dictatorship of a well-organized minority.

If you care about reality, self-determination and freedom, you will make representative democracy through authentic popular representation your only election issue. 

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DO YOU COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER WHERE PRICES GROW AND MEN PLUNDER?

So today, I came across a story by Emma Reynolds published by news.com.au in which Ms. Reynolds goes Mad Max over prices Australians pay "on almost all goods, from cars to clothes to gadgets." Ms. Reynolds believes conspiracy is afoot, which forces Australians to pay higher prices for the same goods than others of the world, notably Americans. Ms. Reynolds cherry-picked a handful of products to buttress her claims —
Razer Blade laptop, Lancome lip gloss, Honda Accord V6, Burberry trench coat, current-release song from iTunes.



Right now, one Australian dollar buys 89 cents U.S., which is 11% short of a whole U.S. dollar.  Australian politicians levy a goods and services tax (GST) of 10% on most goods, services and other items sold or consumed in Australia.

Microsoft sells the Surface Pro 3 tablet for US$799.00 to Americans. Microsoft sells the same Surface Pro 3 tablet for AU$979.00 to Australians, which includes the GST. Here is what happens when accounting for the lower buying power of the Australian dollar and the GST.

(1) US$799 × 1.11 = AU$886.89
(2) AU$886.89 × 1.10 = AU$975.58

So it appears that Microsoft offers their Surface Pro 3 at a $3.42 premium. Maybe Microsoft execs hope to gain that premium to offset regulatory compliance costs. Perhaps Microsoftians seek a few extra dollars to offset foreign exchange costs.

As always, in trade, or commerce, or real economics, there is but one law and one axiom, the Law of Prices and the Axiom of Profit. The Law of Prices holds the winning bids of purchase and sale in the face of what is on offer sets the price. The Axiom of Profit holds the sum of sales must at least equal the cost of production otherwise a producer goes to ruin.

So for products for which Australians pay much higher prices than Americans, it is more than likely the Australians who buy such products outbid their fellow Australians, especially for luxury goods on offer to Australians. These winning bidders push prices beyond exchange rate differences and the GST.

No one works at a loss. At less than break even, anyone would stop trying to produce property, which is the right of ownership and is what gets bought and sold in purchases and sales of trade.

American sellers must at least break even and likely must gain a higher return to capital relative to what can be gained in the USA where 313 million Americans live to make the effort worth it to sell to 23 million isolated Australians who live at least 12,087 km (7510.6 miles) away from Los Angeles.



On a lark, I looked at the price for jar of Vegemite (400g). Woolworths sells a jar for AU$5.56. I can buy Vegemite down the street at Cost Plus World Market for US$8.99. That US$8.99 price is US$7.96 cheaper than the typical Amazon.com price.

US$8.99 exchanges to AUD$10.07. So, the price I would pay is a whopping 81.1% more than your typical g'day mate!

Australians should ask themselves why is an Aussie dollar only worth 89% of a U.S. dollar. Aussies should ask themselves why their pols levy a 10% tax on everything bought and sold.

Aussies might discover that central bankers at the Reserve Bank of Australia buy bonds Aussie pols float to pay for welfare when foreigners fail to buy all the bonds for sale. Aussies might discover that pols need to levy that GST to pay interest on all of those bonds sold to pay for political welfare.

It looks like the News of Australia pings this "prices are high" story once a year.

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YAY CANADA (AND AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY AND ICELAND)

Yesterday, a few media reported that Americans have the warmest feelings toward Canadians, at least according to the findings of the 2014 Chicago Council Survey of American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy.



When I think of the top people on earth and their respective countries, Canadians and Canada top my list, along with Australians and Australia as well as New Zealanders and New Zealand. Also, I think highly of Norwegians and Icelanders, especially as they do not belong to the E.U. nor are they part of the Euro banking system.

That is not to say I don't think favorably of others. I do.

The Irish and Finns seem all right. So too do all those from little countries like Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino and Liechtenstein. As well, those from the quasi-independent lands of Guernesy, Jersey, Isle of Man, Faroe Islands and Greenland seem all right.

The Germans, Swedes, Danes and Brits seem all right too. Mostly, the world of North Sea people have done well for themselves since the start of modern times.

The Japanese, the Koreans of the south and the Taiwanese seem to be all right as well. I enjoy anime and K-Pop.

I might enjoy travels to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Chile. Vietnam, Mongolia and Serbia hold an exotic charm for me. Ah and there are many Pacific Island countries that seem worthy of visits such, at least where the locals play rugby.

Even the Portuguese seem to have done right by those with mental problems by no longer prosecuting drug users.

The Chicago Council Survey consisted of 2,108 respondents who were asked about 26 countries. Here are the results.

The writers at VOX make a strong case for Canadians and Canada.

If only someone could make a compelling case for my fellow Americans and the USA. America has become quite the venue of Bizarro Theater. There seems to be so little freedom as politics seems pervasive, ruling over every aspect of American living these days.

Canadians seem to be doing it right these days. The Heritage Index ranks Canadians 6th in economic freedom right behind the New Zealanders and three down from the Australians. Americans now rank a lame twelfth. The Fraser Institute of Canada ranks the USA a shockingly low 17th on their Economic Freedom of the World index.

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