Terry
Shaw ---- -------------- --
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Qld
Democrats Candidate for Wide
Bay
Email:
Terry.Shaw@qld.democrats.org.au
Phone: (m) 0412 578 948
Terry
Shaw has been a member of the Australian Democrats for over
a decade. He believes in the base principles that the party
has talked about since it was formed - justice and democracy
and it was these principles put into action that attracted
him to join. The common sense approach of finding the common
ground between opponents and helping them to produce a positive
outcome is the fundamental reason why the Australian Democrats
are crucial to effective government in this country.
Terry
is married with four children. He has been an active member
of his community and has been involved in a wide variety
of activities, ranging from residents action groups to P&Cs,
business associations, progress associations, sporting clubs
and environmental groups . He works as purchasing officer
for a bedding manufacturer. In the past he has worked as
a council officer, taxi driver, bottle shop attendant, river
catchment group co-ordinator and a consultant assisting
businesses and individuals to work with and resolve issues
with government
Terry
is a very practical person who enjoys making things work
better. He has many ideas and though they are not Democrat
policy - yet - he's persistent and he's working on it. If
elected he would pursue a number of improvements to how
our country is run including:
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Seeking
a change in the business tax system to reward businesses
that become more sustainable with a lower tax rate.
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Helping
farmers to fund environmental work on their properties
by allowing them to trade the excess carbon credits that
the vegetation and crops produce over and above their
greenhouse gases produced by production.
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Calling
for politicians' salaries to be set as a multiple of the
minimum wage - if the people at the bottom of the ladder
don't get a pay rise, why should politicians?
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Proposing
that elected candidates who don't keep election promises
be barred from standing for parliament
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Seeking
to make far more information available under Freedom of
Information. In particular the exemptions granted on the
basis that information is commercial in confidence need
to be limited, as do exemptions for many cabinet papers.
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Pushing
for more government expenditure on scientific and medical
research.
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Proposing
that a national trust fund be set up to support worldwide
patenting and commercial exploitation of Australian developed
technologies.
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Supporting
the establishment of a scheme where the costs of obtaining
an Australian patent are assisted in return for a share
of any income from exploitation until the patent costs
are repaid.
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Helping
to make getting into a first home more affordable by limiting
the number of properties that could be negatively geared
and using the tax dollars saved to provide tax deductions
for first home buyer's interest.
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Working
to kill bracket creep once and for all. It is a disgrace
that politicians are complicit in over-taxing and then
use the money they should never have taken to give tax
cuts at election time.
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Supporting
massive reinvestment in our transport infrastructure and
ports.
