The Coopetitionist 3.7 – Pre-Election-Campaign Flyer

Paul Ross [2022 Candidate for the Australian Senate (Victoria)]

(Issued: February 3, 2022)

“260 years since the Industrial Revolution – with the productivity gains from Human-Organisation, Science & Technology (HOST), perhaps, 10,000-fold (including, since 2010, more than doubling) – assuming a modicum of efficiency, can abolishing Poverty and Survival Income Slavery require anything more than the will?”

The Coopetition Principle

The nature-consistent fusion of Cooperation (first & foremost) and Competition (the treasured second)

– such as in rules-based sport, democracy and a non-exploitative & efficient free-market economy.

Rather than Band-Aiding, use Coopetition systems to clear the decks so any remaining issues are evident.

Mission: “Governance that maximises Australians’ Coopetition-contributive self-actualisation”.

Unique Heralded Triumphs

Infrastructurally solve our culminating perfect storm of Socio-Econo-Enviro- (SEE) catastrophes – i.e.:

  • The Social – eradicate Poverty, optimise mental-health, minimize crime and maximise unity
  • The Economic – return to efficiently & non-exploitatively producing that which we need/desire
  • The natural Environment – perpetual sustainability yet with a booming unrivalled economy
  • The international Environment – assured sovereignty of both Australia & its Antarctic territory.

Signature Policy

Complete Citizen Empowerment Infrastructure’s (CEI) 5 ‘guaranteed and unconditional’ cornerstones:

  1. Universal Rule of Coopetition-maximising Law
  2. Universal Liberal Democracy
  3. Universal Education
  4. Universal Healthcare
  5. The Universal Survival Income (USI).

With Australia already possessing robust versions of the first 4, we require only The USI – i.e.:

  1. $20,000 per year for every non-jailed in-country adult citizen
  2. $5,000 per year for each child (to their guardian/s)
  3. Pensioners over 661/2 years old and the disabled receive a no-disadvantage ‘top-up’.

The USI-reform consists of substituting The USI for both:

  1. Our current income-Welfare system (incWel) – including abolishing Centrelink, Job Service Provider (JSP) contracts and Jobseeker payments
  2. The Universal Minimum Hourly Wage (UMHoW) – currently, $20.33 – which will permanently eradicate Unemployment/Underemployment and unleash small/big business.

The USI transfer is financed via:

  1. Eradicating the income-Welfare system, which means no ‘gain-job-lose-Welfare’ distortion
  2. Abolishing the tax-free threshold
  3. Extending the GST to 20% full-breadth
  4. The resultant massive ‘trim, taut and terrific’ efficiencies, which, akin to Universal Education, will more than double our effective-economy including via lowering non-GST taxes, minimising environmental destruction and maximising both Coopetition and citizens’ self-actualisation.

This is a PUSH-eradicator – i.e. it eradicates Poverty, Unemployment/Underemployment, Stigma (‘the dole-bludger’ narrative including its racist and disablist variants) & Harassment (‘mutual obligations’) – which will end ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ politics such that the Enviro- can, at last, be whole-of-society prioritised.  Meanwhile, budget surpluses will arise from bureaucratic, Band-Aid, law-enforcement, mental-health & charity savings.

Also, it will revitalise rural & regional Australia and depressurise its cities because, regionally:

  1. The USI will go further and will increase demand for local business’ produce
  2. With a Survival Income & zero Unemployment, moving to the city for paid-work won’t be requisite
  3. With low-cost land and our employees transitioning into being the world’s most self-motivated, productive and (therefore) valuable, rural & regional manufacturing will thrive.

Paul Ross

Currently:         Founder, The Citizen’s Dividend Organisation (CDO).

Formerly:         School-teacher, publican, CEO, business-banker, economics lecturer, manager ANZCham (The Philippines), humanitarian-aid worker (Iraq/Liberia), Ford machinist, Army Reservist.

Also resided:     China (13 years during the reigns of Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jin Ping) and Indonesia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia & Canada (each 2-6 months).

Education:         Master of International Studies, Economics degree, Science degree & Community Services. (Cert IV).