Spencer Prepares For Speaking Tour

Following the successful Peter Spencer Tower of Hope Property Rights rally in Canberra on the 2nd February, Peter Spencer, Alastair McRobert and Agmates Steve Truman are making plans for Peter and Alastair to embark on a speaking tour all over Australia. The meetings will focus on secure property rights for all Australians based on ethical and good governance in accordance with the Australian Constitution.

Spencer’s objectives and the unanimous resolutions of 4,000 supporters at the Tower of Hope Rally remain the same – the Federal Government must establish a Royal Commission to inquire into how the Australian Governments removed the land rights of Australian farming families to enable the Australian Government to meet its entire Kyoto greenhouse gas abatement Commitment, and pay the affected farmers on just terms.

While not anywhere near meeting these objectives, the efforts of Senator Barnaby Joyce have lead to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee announcing the Terms of Reference for an Inquiry into “Native Vegetation Laws, Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Climate Change Measures”. While this is not an ideal forum, the Inquiry will allow thousands of affected landowners to make submissions about the devastating impacts of climate change policy on their secure property rights and their ability to farm effectively and make a living from farming.

Meanwhile (THE LAND, NEWS, Thursday, February 4, 2010) PM Rudd said he and Mr Burke (Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) were “scratching their heads” trying to think of any climate change policy his Government was responsible for which had robbed farmers of their rights. He argued native vegetation laws, which curbed farmers’ use of their land, were a State responsibility. While Rudd and Burke may be “scratching their heads”, it is apparent that they have not read the contents of Peter Spencer’s letter addressed to Mr Rudd of the 23rd November, 2009 (see extract below):

“However, as the head of the Australian Commonwealth Government, you must bear the burden for the theft of the entire Kyoto emission target being Mt – 87.5 CO2 – e. from the targeted farmers.

It is now my role to tell the world this is your standard of conduct – that is, you steal the entire commitment to meet this International treaty from your own people, being we the targeted Australian Farmers referred to in this submission at horrific cost and suffering to us.” and

I will ask the Australian People – those that have all the rights to this democracy NOT the mere servants of those people – as they those servants have proven they are not worthy to be given that trust – I will ask the people if I we the farmers are entitle to our constitutional rights in payment and by so receiving that payment enable Australia to meet its International treaty obligations in good faith and as a civilised State that does not steal its citizens property breaking even the most basic of human rights.”

Included with the letter was a full submission to the Prime Minister which had also been sent to the former Prime Minister, Mr. Howard. The full submission referred specifically to the substantive matter being the fact that United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) figures relating to the entire tonnage of sequestered carbon used to meet the Kyoto Commitment had been stolen from farmers.

During the 2007 election campaign and in his acceptance speech, Rudd repeatedly said “The buck stops with me”. PM Rudd became the owner of the stolen property when he ratified the Kyoto Protocol agreement in early 2008.

This issue is going to remain at the forefront of Australian politics for this 2010 election year.

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