Australian Reform Party
PO Box 310
Epsom VIC 3551

Secretary:
Ian Dean
info@reform.org.au

 

"Accountable Representation for the People"

Property Rights

Nov 2006 Peoples Mandate

Nov 2006 Understanding the law

 

The People's Mandate

 

The issue of a 'People's Mandate' relates to advancing the position that the People are Sovereign over the Parliament. The government of the day is the servant of the Sovereign People who create it. A petition by the People to the government is but a plea, and carries no weight other than to inform the government of the views of a group of people. A 'People's Mandate' is quite different in that it is a direct order or instruction from the Sovereign People to their servants, the government, to do or not to do a specific thing. A government ignores a 'Mandate' at their peril, for if a direct order from the majority of the Sovereign People in the affected area (in this case, the shire) was to be ignored, the government have ceased to be the servants of the People and have usurped power and authority not vested in them. Any government who were to commit such an act would abdicate their role as the government of the People.

'The supreme, absolute and uncontrollable authority remains with the people.' and 'The members of that body are called the "sovereign people", and every citizen is one of this people and a constituent member of the sovereignty.' Ref P286, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth, Quick & Garran.

 

Land Rates & Taxes

 

High Court Rulings must be enforced by law, 1903 Judiciary Act Section 15

 

High Court rulings -‑ Mabo & Others ‑v‑ Queensland, NSW ‑v‑ Commonwealth

 

Quote from Quick & Garran.

"Not all enactments purporting to be laws made by the Parliament are binding, but all laws made under, in pursuance of, and within the authority conferred by the Constitution, and only those, are binding on the courts, judges, and people. A law in excess of the authority conferred by the Constitution is no law; it is wholly void and inoperative, it confers no rights, it imposes no duties, and it affords no protection. Few know that our laws were taken from Canada, USA and Switzerland etc, for the very interpretation of those laws one must see the court cases won and lost in the highest courts in foreign lands, our forefathers made sure that we got the best laws from the best countries.

 

(5) There is Federal law

          Paragraph 51 of the Australian Constitution limits Federal laws, if 51 does not specifically delegate a power to the Commonwealth then the House of Representatives cannot make laws on those matters. If laws are made they are of no effect and need not be obeyed. Half of the Federal laws have no effect.

 

There is State law

          The States were autonomous, so no single entity could get power but they are subservient to all of the above as reaffirmed in the Legislative standards act which states:

 

S4 of the Legislative Standards Act 1992 as "Fundamental, Principles" which are the principles relating to legislating that underlie a Parliamentary Democracy based an the "Rule of Law"; One of those principles is that legislation should "not adversely affect rights and liberties retrospectively".

 

This means that freehold land acquired under a previous act must continue to have the same rights and privileges that existed under the land act irrespective of amendments to the act. The land, water, air and trees were yours and still are. The Government cannot take your right to use the water, trees, lawfully it is yours to use as you see fit. They do not have a say.

 

Full force of the Australian Constitution is outlined. The Annotated Australian Constitution by Quick & Garran provides us with laws a plenty to prove that the States cannot take control of the soil, water, buildings and vegetation on freehold land and fee simple land.

 

Victorian Legislation

 

The Acts Interpretation Act 1954 defines enactments in force and includes (pages 8 ‑‑ s9 Para 6) (a) A British or NSW act that is in force in as.ppp This means that the Magna Carta 1297 and the Bill of Rights 1689 must be interpreted as written. They are in force and listed as such in the Imperial Acts Application, No 70 of 1980. Every other state has similar legislation listing the enactments that can't be removed.

 

The Acts Interpretation Act also limits the power of the current Government. At page 8 -‑ 9 para 9 (1) a. it stipulates that, an act is to be interpreted as operating to full extent of, but not to exceed, parliaments legislative power.

 

What does it all mean?

 

It means the Politicians cannot seize property, to take control of your property, even if they make laws to that effect. The laws are not valid, it means that the politicians are subservient to the will of the people.

Land held in fee simple was handed down by King James and is incorporated in the "Coronation Oath"; the Queen can't ascend the Throne unless she agrees to uphold the Oath.

 

The full Supreme Court of NSW held that feudal system of land tenure, and with it the principle that land is held "of the Crown" was part of law of New South Wales. Even today a person who owns land is properly described "as holding the land of the Crown in the right of the State of New South Wales."

 

(444) Quia Emptores 1290 and the Tenures Abolition Act 1660 were part of the English law received into New South Wales. It follows that subinfuedation existing in this country. 48 The two statutes were formally repealed, in so far as they applied to New South Wales, by the Imperial Acts Application Act 1969 (NSW). However their substance has been preserved by the same act section 36 provides;

 

"Land held in fee simple of the Crown may be assured in fee simple without license or fine and the person taking under assurance shall hold the land of the Crown in the same manner as the land was held before assurance took effect.

 

Section 37 provides:

All tenures created by the Crown upon any grant in fee simple made after the commencement of this act shall be taken to be in free and common socage without any incident of tenure for the benefit of the Crown.

 

In Queensland they have a land act, similar legislation in Victoria. South Australia and New South Wales, section 21 of the Queensland Land act states that a person holding property in fee simple is assured of holding such property without license and fine.

 

Section 29 of the Queensland Land Act 1974 states that a person holding a parcel of land is assured under fee simple tenure of all the rights of "disponer", and that terminology the disponer is referring to the Crown, so all the rights of the disponer are transferred to the disponee which is the purchaser. That is binding on the Sovereign, Heirs and Successors.

 

So when we look at that in total the Property Law Act tells us that our freehold land is created in fee simple, its created without benefit to the Crown, other than the aforementioned reservations, that as the owners of that property we hold that property without license or fine and we are also assured that each time the land is transferred that all of the rights of the previous owner are transferred to the new owner.

 

I know at times we all complain about paying stamp duty, in fact the payment of stamp duty is in fact a payment contrary to fee simple tenure because it is a title without benefit to the Crown and without license or fine. The transfer of land title cannot bring about a fee, note fee simple. Stamp duty is in fact a fee.

 

Copy of mandate here

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UNDERSTANDING THE LAW

 

Trying to understand the law in Australia can be a bit of a nightmare.

 

However, in putting it into a simplified format it amounts to the following:

 

The main laws that flowed to Australia after settlement were the Magna Carta 1297 and the Bill of Rights 1689, which in effect were brought in under Letters Patent.

 

Subsequent to the establishing of the States and the Commonwealth Constitution each state adopted a format called the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 which defines enactments in force and includes (pages 8 ‑‑ s9 Para 6) (a) A British or NSW act that is in force.

 

This means that the Magna Carta 1297 and the Bill of Rights 1689 must be interpreted as written. They are in force and listed as such in the Imperial Acts Application, No 70 of 1980. Every other state has similar legislation listing the enactments that can't be removed.

 

All of these laws are still enforce today and must be obeyed, although the various parliaments DO NOT ¾ this does not make them right.

 

Simply put, contrary to what the governments like to tell the people, the people are SOVEREIGN, not the parliaments and this is categorically shown in the Annotated Notes of the Commonwealth Constitution 1900 by John Quick (a founding father) and Robert Garran his legal secretary at the time, quote “at page 791 “The federal Parliament and the State Parliaments are not sovereign bodies; they are legislatures with limited powers, and any law which they attempt to pass in excess of those powers is no law at all, it is simply a nullity, entitled to no obedience.”

 

The Chief Justice of the High Court further reinforces it; the Hon. Murray Gleeson in his book "The Rule of Law and the Constitution" (ABC Books 2000) stated at page 6 "the sovereignty of our nation lies with the people, both as a matter of legal principle and as a matter of practical reality".

 

With all these laws still in place it is up to the people to stop the governments from taking away our rights and putting the governments back into the correct position of being our servants and this MANDATE is but a first move in that direction.

 

It should be pointed out that at no time nor under any circumstances will this produce adverse repercussions to anyone signing the MANDATE.

 

 

THE MONEY ¾ WHERE WILL IT COME FROM

This realistic comment was echoed after the end of the First World War, when Sir Denison Miller said, as reported in the Australian press on 7th July, 1921, “The whole of the resources of Australia are at the back of this bank, and so strong is this Commonwealth Bank Whatever the Australian people can intelligently conceive in their minds and will loyally support, that can be done.”

 

The Hon. King O’Malley, who had maintained a keen interest in Australian politics over the years, was stirred by what he saw as yet another attempt to emasculate his beloved Bank. Although over 80 years of age, King O’Malley vigorously entered the 1939 ‘Save The Commonwealth Bank Campaign’, publishing a little booklet in which he demonstrated that he was still capable of the type of language for which he was famous during his campaign to have the Bank established.

He wrote, “I trust that good and patriotic Australians will swear by the altar of their gods, the tombs of their Ancestors and the cradles of their children, that they will never vote for Parliamentary candidates whose secret mission is to destroy the Commonwealth Bank ... and whose brains, if extracted, dried and placed in the quill of a cocksparrow and blown into the eye of a bee, would not even make him blink.”

In 1960 the Reserve Bank took over the role of Central Bank from the Commonwealth Bank. Like other trading banks, the Commonwealth Bank is today governed by Reserve Bank controls. The Federal Government could direct the Reserve Bank to adopt a completely different policy to that which results in ever-escalating debt, crushing taxation and insidious inflation. For example, interest rates could be reduced to the point where they were sufficient to meet the administration costs of creating and administering credit. New money could be made available as a credit, instead of a debt, for financing consumer discounts as a major part of an anti-inflation policy. But none of these and similar steps will be taken until a more enlightened public insists that the disintegration of Civilisation can only be halted by a reversal of present credit policies. Eventually this must happen.

When history is written, the name of D.J.AMOS, a distinguished Adelaide professional man, will be given an honoured place for his contribution to an understanding of a special Australian institution, the Commonwealth Bank.

 

IF YOU GET A REJECTION

 

Suggest that the person consider this ¾ when this mandate is completed and everyone in the Shire gains the benefit of NO RATES ¾ wouldn’t you like to be able to say that YES, you were part of it?

 

There can be no repercussions for you by signing the MANDATE.

Copy of mandate here

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Authorised by: Ian Dean, Goynes Rd Epsom.