1. Stop tax funded abortions
2. Increase Pension for elderly
3. Insist schools teach education instead of indoctrination as currently done in State schools
3. Encourage home schooling (financial incentives)
4. Refuse to sign any more UN treaties
5. Tighten up drastically on unemployment benefits
6. Give out food and clothing to aboriginal communities instead of drug/alcohol money
7. Make filth coming from Canberra porno shops illegal
8. Mandatory castration to repeat child molesters
9. Do away with no fault divorce nonsense
10. Stop Islamic immigration

I'd like to add a few things as well.

1) Bring the question of becoming a Republic
back - for discussion, possibly another Referendum.
2) Look into an Equal Rights Act for our
Indigenous Australians, - as suggested by the
former Justice Michael Kirby, and a National Reform Agenda.
3)A foreign policy agenda to act on disarmament.
4)Implement a larger Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - to
set an example for the rest of the world.
5)Implement - alternative energy sources.
6)Increase the term of the Prime Ministership from 3 years to
four years - with a maximum of two terms - as in the US.
Twelve years under Howard should be a lesson for us all.
7) Change from right-hand drive to left-hand drive vehicles -
which would save imported car costs.
8) Put a cap on executive salaries - in both government
departments and private enterprises.
9)Implement a scheme to pump water from the north to the
south - where it is badly needed, and reverse coastal rivers
to flow inland.
10)Maintain immigration at levels that do not exceed the
current 2010 population levels - in order to sustain our
water resources.

That's just a start. The government's ethos would be - to
seek to unite, seek to include, to instill positive hope,
instead of negative fear. To build, not tear down.

Sheesh Pelican, with those sorts of policies, having you as PM,
I would have to play devil's advocate and apply for the job as
leader of the opposition :)

*bring back free education at the tertiary level.*

So you think that the 500$ an hour lawyer, should have his education
paid for by the bloke who works as a garbage collector? Why?

*bring back tariffs to protect local industry, import only what we don't or cannot produce here*

Ah, the Melbourne old boys club and all the monopolies that tarrifs
used to give them to make them rich, would love you! No need for
efficient industry, just screw the public, tariffs will protect them.
We have seen it all before.

This time however, when the public would have to pay 6000$ for a
computer or three times as much for most consumer goods, they might
wake up and turf you out on your ear :)

Fact is the everyday consumers are the largest beneficiaries of
global trade. All of you benefit, nearly every day, aware of it or
not.

*Get rid of compulsory Private Superannuation*

So you mean that we land up like much of Europe, where Govts have
put NO money at all away for pensions, but hope that taxpayers of
the future will cough up, if we breed enough of them?

Pelican, you are far more trusting of big Govt them I am. Today
Australian workers largely own large corporations and banks, through
their super funds. If banks make record profits, workers benefit.

Why should such a system be cancelled

I like most of pelican's suggestions, but not all.

Seeing as government pensions are going to either destroy the economies of other countries by sheer cost (or more likely, be scaled back in what will be nasty shock to many) I think that superannuation is a brilliant concept for supporting our elderly, however investment practices on the whole need to be reformed, with super just one small part of this picture.

I can't support blanket tariffs either.

1) I'd argue in favour of pegging our subsidies to a fraction of our primary competitor - thus, we could subsidise our industries, and if any other countries complained about it we could say that if they want us to remove our subsidies all they need to do is tell our competitors to remove theirs. Simple really. Doesn't compromise free trade principles and it's and oh so smug. Best of all, it'd give ammo to those in competing nations who want to stop their governments doing this.

This would be one of the best things we could do for the third world, too.

2) I like Arjay's suggestion of attacking vexatious litigation, but any accountable process would need to be open to dispute which means more litigation. This needs to be stopped and we need to ensure it's not controlled by lawyers.

3) Ditch the Rudd government's ignorant attempt at censoring the internet.

4) I like Foxy's two-term suggestion for Prime Ministers, though I'd keep three year terms.

5) I like the idea of nationalising key assets, though only in areas which by their nature are monopolistic. Accept our population is too sparse to support competing telecommunications infrastructure and nationalise the infrastructure while shunting Telstra to the status of any other telco.

6) If you want to pay for private education, then I support that. Just don't expect taxes to prop it up.

I hope neither runner nor his ilk get into government.
Even the botched Bush administration wasn't daft enough to go after porn. (though I see merit in reassessing the pension and the form of assistance given to aboriginal communities).

Oh, and pelican, I note that your suggestion says that employers should put money aside for employees - but the problem is, that given CPI increases and so forth, that money wouldn't be sufficient when people reach retirement, thus it needs to be invested, which essentially is what superannuation is. Though I guess we both agree it needs to be reviewed.

I'd also like to add a review of government advertising budgets - the Queensland government being a prime example of irresponsible spending and blowouts in terms of PR costs.

Besides, I can tell you firsthand that the State government PR armada is more adept at obfuscation than facilitation when it comes to revealing information.

Houellebecq
I agree with you.Your suggestions are perfect to demolish the current system. Later we will see what exactly we want to biuld in its position but at least let 's start demolishing the current system!
You are a genius!
EVIVA Houellebecq!