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ARTS POLICY STATEMENT

The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) supports government arts funding for artists as well as the general population, as a crucial approach to inspiring our citizens and banishing pessimism with cultural optimism. The most beautiful of all works of art is the construction of true political freedom.

The CEC and our international affiliates in LaRouche's Schiller Institute have a strong commitment to nurturing this political freedom through a new Golden Renaissance, based upon the classical tradition in art and philosophy, where the creative powers of each individual are fostered, to the benefit of both the individual, and of the entire society. As such, we will work to promote classical music, visual arts and great classical theatrical productions to counter the anti-human, bestial policies represented by the rock-drug-sex counterculture, which took off in the 1960s. It is imperative that such works of art and culture be accessible for all Australians, and not just the wealthy and the elite.

In July 2004, the CEC released a pamphlet, Children of Satan III—The Sexual Congress For Cultural Fascism. This pamphlet exposed the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)—a CIA-funded cultural warfare unit sponsoring hideous modernist and postmodernist "art" against the Classical tradition in art. This irrational garbage called "art" is used as a way of undermining the population's ability to think. One notorious example of this cultural warfare was the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom's support for the psychotic "Blue Poles" painting in the National Gallery of Australia by Jackson Pollock, a stalwart of the CCF.

A classical education must start at Pre-School level and henceforth be encouraged and funded throughout all schooling levels, universities and government media—radio and television alike. The CEC will adequately fund classical orchestras, actors, painters, sculptors and indeed all artists embracing the classical tradition.

Over time, this education will generate a culture of beauty, allowing us to understand the true nature of mankind—that we are creative beings inspired by ideas—not animals obsessed by instantaneous pleasures. Our suicide rates, crime and drug culture would necessarily reduce and as such we will witness a corresponding economic renaissance.

the content of the education curriculum would shift to a classical education. Both new age fashions and formal rote learning would be scrapped, in favour of an environment where children are able to relive the great discoveries of the past, in their own minds, as if they were their own, and thus learn how to think, instead of what to think. Recapturing the excitement of the discoveries of the past, will inspire our youth to make the great discoveries of the future. It is the most profound investment our nation can make.

POLICY STATEMENT ON FORESTRY IN TASMANIA

The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) supports a strong forestry and wood products industry for Tasmania. It contributes over $1 billion each year to the Tasmania economy, employs 5% of the Tasmanian workforce and supplies the necessary building materials we all use.

The CEC will work to expose greenie frauds that threaten our jobs and living standards. Contrary to common propaganda, Tasmanian forests are not under massive threat. Forest covers 3.3 million ha of Tasmania, which is nearly half of the total 6.78 million ha of the State. Nearly one million hectares of Tasmanian old-growth forests are protected from logging and less than 3% of old-growth forest will be logged over the next ten years.

The lies concerning our forestry industry are ridiculous and a complicit media insists on treating us like mushrooms. One classic example occurred in 1996 when Prince Philip's eco-fascist World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) claimed 50,000 species were now becoming extinct each year due to human activity and that the main cause of species extinction was "commercial logging". Newspapers around the world reported this without asking any hard questions. Following several challenges, the WWF has not been able to provide even one Latin name of a species driven to extinction by the forestry industry. This is because, to the best of our knowledge, not a single species has ever been driven to extinction by the forestry industry in Australia and this is possibly true for the entire world.

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