{"id":16458,"date":"2014-03-29T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:58:11","slug":"wavotes-candidate-campaigns-east-coast-guineverehall-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wavotes-candidate-campaigns-east-coast-guineverehall-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom and Prosperity Party’s @NoDirectAction campaigns from east coast: @GuinevereHall reports #WAvotes"},"content":{"rendered":"[clear]\n
\"Bill

Bill Koutalianos<\/p><\/div>\n

A handful of the 77 candidates vying to represent Western Australia in the rerun Senate election live in other states.<\/p>\n

I contacted Bill Koutalianos, president of the Freedom and Prosperity Party and its number one senate candidate, via Twitter and email.<\/p>\n

At first he said he wasn\u2019t intending to come to Perth in the lead-up to the election. However, after some pressure, he made it over last week to speak to me and will be back next week to be involved in a candidates\u2019 forum.<\/p>\n

I asked him how well he felt he could represent a state that he doesn\u2019t live in. He agreed it was a fair question and that it would be a learning curve for his party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason we are here contesting is that we feel passionately about the issues that we want to address and they are going to impact as much on Australia as they do on Western Australia,\u201d Mr Koutalianos said.<\/p>\n

The Freedom and Prosperity Party ran in the September 2013 election under the name of The No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics party. I asked Mr Koutalianos why they changed the name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we would broaden our name to perhaps improve our vote because it was a narrow focus \u2013 just on the climate debate, just on the carbon tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you have the problem that most Australians think the carbon tax has been resolved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssuming the new Senate (in July) allows the legislation to go through, you still have its replacement, which is Direct Action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Current Environment Minister Greg Hunt\u2019s statements while in opposition, at the Sydney Institute in May 2013, included reference to a market mechanism. According to Mr Koutalianos,\u00a0Mr Hunt agreed with the then Labor Government on \u2018the science\u2019, namely the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians thought they were voting out the carbon tax in September last year but all they have really done is change the name,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Koutalianos started a career as an architect but is now a business owner in building development in NSW. He ran in the NSW Senate election in 2013.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cBefore 2008, I believed all this climate alarmism. I was religious about it. I remember watching the Great Global Warming Swindle<\/i> (a documentary). That didn\u2019t turn me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I started reviewing the available data; build up the facts one by one.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven after I converted to scepticism I still thought there must be some truths to this, but at every step of the way there is some contradictory item.\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked why he thought scientists and governments would lie and change data to try to convince us that anthropogenic climate change is real and who would benefit from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the surface, it\u2019s government, the United Nations and the World Bank,\u201d Mr Koutalianos said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCareless politicians already agreed to this back in 1992 because they didn\u2019t foresee what it was about. The Rio Earth Summit was a feel-good document co-authored by Maurice Strong, of the UN, and Mikhail Gorbachev, of the former Soviet Union \u2013 hint, hint.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was basically socialism dressed up as environmentalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for what end? What were they trying to achieve out of it?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have world government in a sense. This is all about the UN increasing its power over us (because) 10 per cent of our carbon tax goes to the UN for the Green Climate Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Liberals hijacked the original No Carbon Tax Movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was about scepticism over the UN IPCC\u2019s representations and the media promotion that they are a scientific body. They are a political body they select scientists not based on credentials but on diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why did Mr Koutalianos think the mainstream media did not talk about this?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ABC leads a lot of political debate in this country and I have come to the view that the ABC is not representing Australia\u2019s interests but the UN\u2019s interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If his main policy then is to repeal the carbon tax, does he have any other headline policies?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would not permit the introduction of Direct Action or any other replacement scheme. The official policy of the Liberal Party is to introduce a market mechanism, some form of carbon price.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe oppose the mining tax. We would get out of the Kyoto Emissions Reduction Treaty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext, Renewable Energy Targets: no economic sense in wind and solar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to put solar panels on your home, go for it, but you will not be subsidised by the federal government. That is what\u2019s pushing up everyone\u2019s power bills. They don\u2019t work well and can\u2019t store energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there is Agenda 21. In 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit we signed up to UN Agenda 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t talk about it in Australian media. They use an alternative name \u2013 \u2018sustainability\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSustainable development is an outcome of the UN\u2019s agenda for the 21st century Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It has been a 20-year social engineering campaign and no one has ever heard of Agenda 21,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of sensible things that sustainability promotes, but our reading of it is that these guys are using it for ideological and political purposes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSustainable equals socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Mr Koutalianos participating in the micro-party alliance organised by Glenn Druery?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe participated last time and we are participating this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast time we preferenced both left and right parties, in some cases ones I wouldn\u2019t necessarily subscribe to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a worthwhile process, somebody has got a chance, which is a good thing for democracy. This time everyone has gone back to their corner a little bit, divided on left and right grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am much happier with our preferences this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Australian Voice<\/li>\n
  2. Mutual Party<\/li>\n
  3. Building Australia Party<\/li>\n
  4. Australian Sports Party<\/li>\n
  5. Rise Up Australia Party<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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