Sign the Petition:
Australia urgently needs a public post office bank - a ‘people’s bank’
Sign the Petition:
Australia urgently needs a public post office bank - a ‘people’s bank’
The Labor government under Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about about to commit the ultimate betrayal of the Australian people. We must do everything possible to stop them.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has committed publicly to implementing all 51 of the recommendations of the recently completed Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Review.
The #1 recommendation of that review is this:
The government should remove the power of the Treasurer to override the RBA's decisions.
The issue is: who has the ultimate authority over the nation's economy? Is it the elected representatives of the people? Or is it what the old Labor party under John Curtin and Ben Chifley used to call "The Money Power"?
Our video exposé explains the history behind this question. The royal commission of 1935-1937 established the clear principle that it is the government that is ultimately responsible for monetary policy. That principle was enshrined in law in the 1945 Reserve Bank Act.
Our campaign to create a public post office bank has made the Money Power nervous. So nervous that they feel compelled to make this power grab - as they now want to establish in law that they are above all elected officials and no one can challenge their decisions.
The Citizens Party is mobilising the Australian people to demand NO SUCH legislation be passed.
Yet the best way to rein in the corrupt power of the Big Four banks is to re-establish a public alternative. Australia has not had such a public bank since Paul Keating and John Howard privatised the Commonwealth Bank in 1996.
The Citizens Party’s proposed public post office bank will force the banks to compete on retail services and restore banking services to every community in Australia.
For more than a decade numerous organisations and experts have called for an Australian public post office bank to provide a secure alternative to the private banking system.
Australians and the Australian economy are straining under the yoke of a private banking oligopoly which:
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starves small businesses and industry of credit while concentrating its lending in the housing bubble that prices young families out of buying an affordable home;
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maximises profits by preying on bank customers to extract wealth through asset-stripping;
-
withdraws banking services from whole communities through aggressive branch closures to maximise its profits;
-
denies banking services to anyone it doesn’t like, especially small businesses that are competitors to the banking system, making it impossible for them to function in the economy;
-
is pushing to eliminate cash entirely, in order to lock Australians into banks and force us to transact electronically so the banks can trace our economic activities; and
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corrupts the political system through its enormous lobbying power, enabling it to always block any attempt to seriously reform the banking system.
A public post office bank would cure each and every one of these evils.
Please sign the petition now. This is a matter of the greatest urgency.
Petition Summary
We call upon the Australian government to:
Immediately establish a national postal bank—a new “people’s bank” like the original Commonwealth Bank—to operate through Australia Post’s thousands of post offices; and a national development bank to invest in infrastructure and productive industries.
(Click here to read the full text of petition)
“If the Government of the Commonwealth deliberately excluded itself from all participation in the making or changing of monetary policy it cannot govern except in a secondary degree.”
John Curtin
Australian Prime Minister 1941-1945
Petition Summary
We call upon the Australian government to:
Immediately establish a national postal bank—a new “people’s bank” like the original Commonwealth Bank—to operate through Australia Post’s thousands of post offices; and a national development bank to invest in infrastructure and productive industries.
(Click here to read the full text of petition)
“If the Government of the Commonwealth deliberately excluded itself from all participation in the making or changing of monetary policy it cannot govern except in a secondary degree.”
John Curtin
Australian Prime Minister 1941-1945
The Labor government under Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about about to commit the ultimate betrayal of the Australian people. We must do everything possible to stop them.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has committed publicly to implementing all 51 of the recommendations of the recently completed Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Review.
The #1 recommendation of that review is this:
The government should remove the power of the Treasurer to override the RBA's decisions.
The issue is: who has the ultimate authority over the nation's economy? Is it the elected representatives of the people? Or is it what the old Labor party under John Curtin and Ben Chifley used to call "The Money Power"?
Our video exposé explains the history behind this question. The royal commission of 1935-1937 established the clear principle that it is the government that is ultimately responsible for monetary policy. That principle was enshrined in law in the 1945 Reserve Bank Act.
Our campaign to create a public post office bank has made the Money Power nervous. So nervous that they feel compelled to make this power grab - as they now want to establish in law that they are above all elected officials and no one can challenge their decisions.
The Citizens Party is mobilising the Australian people to demand NO SUCH legislation be passed.
Yet the best way to rein in the corrupt power of the Big Four banks is to re-establish a public alternative. Australia has not had such a public bank since Paul Keating and John Howard privatised the Commonwealth Bank in 1996.
The Citizens Party’s proposed public post office bank will force the banks to compete on retail services and restore banking services to every community in Australia.
For more than a decade numerous organisations and experts have called for an Australian public post office bank to provide a secure alternative to the private banking system.
Australians and the Australian economy are straining under the yoke of a private banking oligopoly which:
-
starves small businesses and industry of credit while concentrating its lending in the housing bubble that prices young families out of buying an affordable home;
-
maximises profits by preying on bank customers to extract wealth through asset-stripping;
-
withdraws banking services from whole communities through aggressive branch closures to maximise its profits;
-
denies banking services to anyone it doesn’t like, especially small businesses that are competitors to the banking system, making it impossible for them to function in the economy;
-
is pushing to eliminate cash entirely, in order to lock Australians into banks and force us to transact electronically so the banks can trace our economic activities; and
-
corrupts the political system through its enormous lobbying power, enabling it to always block any attempt to seriously reform the banking system.
A public post office bank would cure each and every one of these evils.
Please sign the petition now. This is a matter of the greatest urgency.
PETITION
An Australia Post ‘people’s bank’—a win-win solution for the nation
TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This petition of concerned Australians draws to the attention of the House that:
Australia’s financial system is dominated by a private banking oligopoly that pursues maximum profit at the expense of customers, the community and ethical standards.
The major banks have focussed their lending on mortgages, which has inflated house prices to unaffordable levels, while starving small business, farming and manufacturing of credit. In recent years they have shut hundreds of branches and ripped out hundreds more ATMs in rural and regional Australia and low-income suburbs of the major cities, accelerating the economic decline of many communities. And they have abused their market power to reduce the use and availability of cash and cheques and to deny customers banking services through “debanking”.
Australia needs an alternative, public banking system that provides financial services to all communities and invests in the nation’s future.
We therefore ask the House to immediately establish:
-
a national postal bank—a new “people’s bank” like the original Commonwealth Bank—to operate through Australia Post’s thousands of post offices; and
-
a national development bank to invest in infrastructure and productive industries.
A national postal bank would restore retail financial services to all communities, fully guarantee savings deposits, lend carefully but fairly, maintain cash payments, not discriminate through debanking, and invest surplus deposits in the national development bank to fund job-creating infrastructure and industries.
PETITION
An Australia Post ‘people’s bank’—a win-win solution for the nation
TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This petition of concerned Australians draws to the attention of the House that:
Australia’s financial system is dominated by a private banking oligopoly that pursues maximum profit at the expense of customers, the community and ethical standards.
The major banks have focussed their lending on mortgages, which has inflated house prices to unaffordable levels, while starving small business, farming and manufacturing of credit. In recent years they have shut hundreds of branches and ripped out hundreds more ATMs in rural and regional Australia and low-income suburbs of the major cities, accelerating the economic decline of many communities. And they have abused their market power to reduce the use and availability of cash and cheques and to deny customers banking services through “debanking”.
Australia needs an alternative, public banking system that provides financial services to all communities and invests in the nation’s future.
We therefore ask the House to immediately establish:
-
a national postal bank—a new “people’s bank” like the original Commonwealth Bank—to operate through Australia Post’s thousands of post offices; and
-
a national development bank to invest in infrastructure and productive industries.
A national postal bank would restore retail financial services to all communities, fully guarantee savings deposits, lend carefully but fairly, maintain cash payments, not discriminate through debanking, and invest surplus deposits in the national development bank to fund job-creating infrastructure and industries.
Website: https://citizensparty.org.au Phone: 1800 636 432 Email: info@citizensparty.org.au Postal Address: PO Box 376, Coburg, Vic 3058
Website: https://citizensparty.org.au
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: info@citizensparty.org.au
Postal Address: PO Box 376, Coburg, Vic 3058
Authorised by Craig Isherwood, Citizens Party, Melbourne.