CLA requires that all Australian citizens are equal under law. CLA considers Australians to be ‘one people’. United by a common set of values that apply equally to all, regardless of race, creed or culture.
The result is that nobody will be preferred or prejudiced under law or by government based on their race, creed or culture. Social welfare and other benefits will be based on need. An affluent person should not be receiving such benefits, regardless of their race, creed or culture.
CLA has a disdain for sanctimonious virtue-signalling, considering it far more harmful than beneficial. It gives the virtue signaller the delusion that they are a ‘good person’ for signalling to the world that they care, but they do not care enough to do anything that will improve the lives of any First Nations people. Virtue signalling does not lift any First Nations people out of poverty, nor does it lift life expectancy, nor does it reduce crime, nor does it improve the employment prospects of First Nations people or give them more business opportunities and nor does it ‘close the income gap’ and nor does it encourage anyone to improve the well-being of First Nations people. As a result ‘Welcome to Country’ statements will not be permitted by government bodies and will not be a requirement put on publicly funded organisations, including public schools.
Government buildings, premises and offices will fly only one flag, the Australian flag. The same applies to any party or body that receives public funding.
In our desire and endeavours to improve the well-being of our First Nations people, we (the Australian people) need to recognise that the policies implemented over the past few decades have been an abject failure. Continuing with similar policies but expecting different results is idiotic. An entirely different approach is needed.
CLA’s approach in the allocation of social welfare and other benefits, is not to recognise race, creed or culture. Treating recipients differently based on their race, creed or culture conveys the message, in the subconscious minds of both the provider and recipient, that the providers consider themselves superior to the recipients. This is harmful for both sides. CLA does not consider First Nations people to be inferior in any way.
As any behavioural scientist worth his or her salt will attest, if you treat people equally, they are more likely to behave as equals and if you give people more responsibility, they are more likely to be more dependable, make better choices, and take ownership of their actions.
CLA’s strategy for the short to medium term includes working with elders (and/or other community leaders) to establish multi-facet agricultural enterprises, where by-products of one operation are used as inputs of another. People will work in those businesses and share the produce and profits. The workers will have the right to remove those not pulling their weight. Able bodied people in those communities must work for a living, even if in community gardens. The aim is for those communities to be self-sufficient – not reliant on social welfare. Those unable to work due to addiction will lose their social welfare benefits unless undergoing rehab in an approved facility, which will receive the social welfare the individual would otherwise get.