VOTE HOWARD OUT

Last year he ignored the collective voice of people around the 
nation and sent Australia to war on the coat tails of the USA, a 
war that was made more disgusting because it was based on lies. 
For this crime against humanity and the many other actions 
against the Australian people, on October 9 vote him out!

* Despite promising in 1996 that Medicare would remain in its 
entirety, the Howard Government is destroying Australia's 
universal, bulk billing system.

* The Government is gutting public education, from kindergarten 
through to the universities. A two-tier system is being created 
in education with tens of millions of dollars of funding meant 
for the public system being diverted to private schools. The 
universities have been converted into a user-pays system.

* Howard has sold out the country's economic independence by 
signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA that will give 
American corporations unfettered access to Australia's industries 
and natural resources.

* The FTA had a number of strings attached, including the 
destruction of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which will 
deprive Australians of affordable medicines in order to fatten 
the profits of US drug companies.

* The Government cries poor when it comes to funding services but 
is spending over $40 million a day on the military in its role as 
US deputy sheriff and bully boy in the Asia-Pacific region.

* This is a Government of corporate welfare and jobs-for-the-
boys, exposed since first elected in 1996 as liars, with 
corruption and nepotism as its mode of operation.

* The Government has a vicious, destructive agenda for trade 
unions that is aimed at stripping away the collective action of 
workers so as to leave them exposed to the rapacious greed of 
employers.

* It has persecuted refugees seeking asylum in Australia and 
violated their human rights.

* Under cover of "anti-terrorism" it has introduced anti-
democratic laws on an unprecedented scale, taking away the 
fundamental rights of all Australians.