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By Georgie Moore<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0@gemoo4<\/a><\/p>\n 26 August 2013<\/p>\n I talk personal and party politics with the Palmer United Party candidate for Higgins Phillip Dall<\/i>.<\/p>\n How did you get into politics<\/span>?<\/p>\n Well I have seen the ad that Clive Palmer was running [early June] about the Palmer Party saying that you do not need to have political experience. You just need to be a concerned Australia. I\u2019ve often said, and I\u2019ve often heard people say that \u201cI wish I could do something about it; I wish I could have an influence.\u201d Well it turns out now, for the first time in my life, I think I can. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m going for this.<\/p>\n Why did you become involved in the Palmer United Party, specifically<\/span>?<\/p>\n Because he [Palmer] was saying that you do not need to have political affiliations to become part of his party. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve never bothered to go with, say, the ALP [Australian Labor Party], because there\u2019s too much of this all old-school infighting, cliches and the little groups, the little faction groups and stuff\u2014I\u2019m not interested in that. This was a straight-out business run party. It looks to be open and fair, so I\u2019ll give it a go.<\/p>\n What issues are you passionate about<\/span>?<\/p>\n I suppose it has to be working, jobs creation and standard of living. I always struggled to make ends meet, when I had the family, we struggled severely, even though I\u2019m a plumber.<\/p>\n I\u2019m aware of PUP\u2019s policies, but I\u2019d like to hear them in your own works as they apply to the seat of Higgins.<\/span><\/p>\n The carbon tax is the first thing. The carbon tax will affect everybody. We\u2019ve got the mineral wealth [creation]. Ok, that is not going to affect the seat of Higgins too much… Even with, what he wants to do, he wants to bring down manufacturing from whatever little in the north, down to the southern states. Once again, that is not going to help the people of Higgins because there\u2019s no room for new factories. We don\u2019t want new factories in Higgins. Even the where he wants to make sure the wealth that\u2019s created in an area, the majority stays in an area. That\u2019s not going to help Higgins once again because we\u2019re not a manufacturing; we\u2019re an established area.<\/p>\n Also, the other key point was the\u2026 asylum seekers. People have to come into the country with paperwork\u2014i.e. flying in. You can\u2019t fly unless you\u2019ve got some sort of paperwork. If people are coming in via aeroplane, because we\u2019re an island nation, which makes it handy for that, they have to have a return ticket and if their paperwork isn\u2019t up to scratch, they don\u2019t get into the airports.<\/p>\n So you\u2019re saying that everyone who flies into this country must come with a return ticket? Why<\/span>?<\/p>\n So, as the immigration people know that they\u2019re not coming here on a one-way ticket, not coming here to plan on staying. Can\u2019t you have an open-ended ticket? Surely you can have an open-ended ticket. The airplanes need to provide that open-ended ticket. I\u2019m sure the government can then legislate that airlines have to provide an open-ended ticket.<\/p>\n What has people coming in via planes got to do with boats<\/span>?<\/p>\n All the money that\u2019s being spent on catching boats and housing people, that will then decrease, if not rule them [sic<\/i>] out.<\/p>\n But what does increased air travel restrictions have to do with boats? How are the two connected<\/span>?<\/p>\n Because you are only letting in people that have got paperwork.<\/p>\n But you\u2019re talking about arrivals via air travel. What about asylum seekers coming via boat<\/span>?<\/p>\n That is the policy that we\u2019re running with.<\/p>\n So PUP isn\u2019t concerned about boat arrivals<\/span>?<\/p>\n I would say they are, no you\u2019d have to get a better clarification from the PUP on that. There\u2019s [sic<\/i>] some things that even candidates are not privy to.<\/p>\n But it is perceived by many to be a major issue<\/span>.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to sound dumb, but that\u2019s what he\u2019s [Palmer] proposed. And that\u2019s what we have to run with.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your view on boat arrivals<\/span>?<\/p>\n Me personally? I don\u2019t like how they jump the queue.<\/p>\n Moving on, if many of your party\u2019s policies won\u2019t impact the people of Higgins, why should they elect you<\/span>?<\/p>\n The Liberal, the Labor or the Greens candidates\u2026 What\u2019s going to happen is they\u2019re not going to be on with the Palmer Party to make these things happen\u2014that\u2019s what it gets down to. People have got to realise that unless you\u2019ve got the majority of people, of one part in Canberra, to make the decisions, you\u2019re going to go round and round in circles, not getting anywhere. But this assumes that Palmer will have the majority. So do you think you can get the majority of the lower house? Do you think this is likely<\/span>?<\/p>\n Well I\u2019ve got to say yes to that.<\/p>\n But what do you actually think<\/span>?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got to say yes to that. I want to job.<\/p>\n Your candidacy profile talks about better transport solutions for Higgins. What specifically do you mean by that<\/span>?<\/p>\n What he [Palmer] wants to do down here in Victoria, he wants to fund both projects they\u2019ve [the government] got going\u2014the road tunnel and the rail tunnel.<\/p>\n Moving on to another issue, why are you running for the seat of Higgins when you don\u2019t live here<\/span>?<\/p>\n
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