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AD-LIB is the quarterly publication of the south Australian young liberal movement.
Contents Editor:
Nicholas Charles
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From the editor / UPCOMING EVENTS
Upcoming events on the Young Liberal calendar.
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From the President
Report from the SAYLM President, Alexander Hyde.
DISCLAIMER:
The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor, or the South Australian Young Liberal Movement.
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Q&A with FORMER MP STAN EVANS
We asked Stan Evans about how to increase Party membership and his role in creating the State Ombudsman.
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YOUNG LIBERAL FEDERAL COUNCIL 2016
Contributions to this edition of ADLIB are from members and friends of the SAYLM.
by Courtney Stephens.
To contribute to the next issue of ADLIB or to contact the Editor, email adlib@sayoungliberals.com.
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Authorised by Mr Alexander Hyde, President, SAYLM. 104 Greenhill Road, Unley, 5061. Published 25/02/2016
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COMBATING THE XENOPHON FACTOR
by Robert Katsambis.
THE FOURTH FACTOR
By Henry Davis.
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HIGHLIGHTS
See highlights from the Young Liberal Super Bowls and the Adelaide University Liberal Club at Orientation Week. Image: Port Noarlunga totems Les Haines (Source: Flickr)
From the Editor held in Canberra recently. With the threat of Nick Xenophon taking even more votes from the major parties, Administration Director Robert Katsambis discusses his view on how to combat the Xenophon factor. And lastly, Young Liberal member Henry Davis talks about how the fourth factor, entrepreneurship, should take a greater focus to develop today’s youth.
Thank you for picking up a copy of the Young Liberal Movement’s quarterly magazine Ad-Lib. I am pleased to say our last edition was very well received from young liberals, state council delegates, and rank-and-file members alike. This edition will be no different with a great selection of articles and highlights from the Movement since then. With the Party facing issues of a declining membership base, I have done a Q&A with Liberal Party veteran Stan Evans about how he thinks we can increase membership. I have also asked him on how he got parliament to accept a office of the ombudsman. With fascinating history about state politics this is a great read. State Vice President Courtney Stephens recaps on the event packed Young Liberal Federal Council
And don’t forget to have a look the at the highlights of what Young Liberal members have been up to recently. I would also like to invite all Young Liberal members to have a go at writing something for Ad-Lib, as it is a great way to get your views and opinions heard within the party. If you’re thinking about it please don’t hesitate to contact me at adlib@sayoungliberals.com It has my aim to continue Ad-Lib as a reputable magazine that previous Editor, Rhys Williams, started. By sourcing great articles from our members, and keeping the magazine as an intelligent but fun forum. I hope you enjoy this edition of AdLib. Nicholas Charles SAYLM Communications Director
UPCOMING EVENTS! *
APRIL/MAY TBC
SAYLM David Tonkin Memorial Dinner
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APRIL/MAY TBC
SAYLM Convention + Polliewaffle
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SATURDAY 21 MAY
SAYLM Ball
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FRIDAY 3 JUNE
State Council Meeting
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From the President Annual General Meeting in Canberra. The South Australian Movement had strong representation at the conference, and was able to pass multiple policy motions, including a motion of congratulations for former South Australian Young Liberal president Sir Lynton Crosby on his recent knighthood.
Welcome to the summer edition of Ad-Lib! I hope everyone has been enjoying as much of summer as possible (with the federal election campaigning ramping up). Since my last report Young Liberal Movement continues to be thoroughly active in all key seat campaigns. Considerable efforts are being put in across the board in seats including Hindmarsh, Sturt and Boothby. Now that most Federal preselections have been finalised, the Executive is forwarding on Young Liberal members who are keen to campaign onto their local FEC as they are best placed to allocate human resources to campaign critical areas as they see fit. I would like to extend my personal congratulations to Kelvin Binns who was preselected as the Liberal candidate for Kingston by a considerable margin at the Kingston Electoral College held on January 30. Kelvin has served on the Young Liberal Executive over the past 2 years and I know that if he applies the same work ethic to the Kingston campaign that he has shown in the Movement, he stands a strong chance of making significant headway against Labor’s Amanda Rishworth. On the Federal Young Liberal scene, the Movement recently held its Federal Conference and
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The new Federal President of Young Liberal Movement is Claire Chandler (Tasmania) while the Federal Vice-President is David Howard (ACT). Both were elected unopposed and after working with them for the past three years I can vouch for their strength of character and commitment to Liberal values and the Young Liberal Movement. With a meritorious woman as elected unopposed as Federal President I believe we can show the Australian public that you do not need quotas in order to solidify female involvement in politics. In the coming weeks we have some of our regular events to look forward to which have been given a makeover. The State Convention this year will be combined with the Polliewaffle Cup and will only have policy debate in the morning, while the revived Polliewaffle, which is a debate between Young Liberals and MPs, will be an informal catered event in the afternoon. Our Policy Vice-President, Leighton McDonald-Stuart, has also been organising Mock Parliament with Young Labor and the House of Assembly’s Speaker’s Office will confirm a date with us shortly, but we expect it to be in April. As always should you have any questions I encourage you to get in touch with me. I hope to see you on the campaign hustings and at our future events.
Alexander Hyde SAYLM President
Q&A with Stan Evans WE ASKED STATE LIBERAL PARTY VETERAN STAN EVANS ABOUT PARTY MEMBERSHIP & HIS ROLE IN CREATING THE STATE OMBUDSMAN
A lot of organisations are facing the issue of a declining membership base, including the Liberal Party, why do you think this is? Well I think it’s a major issue, and I’ve raised it with some people higher up in the Party than me. And the membership fee for those other than young liberals and antiques (concession) is too high. I joined the party in 1948 as a young liberal and by 1960 we had over 50 000 members. I forget the cost of membership in that year but it wasn’t very much. I joined when a man walked in to the quarry where I was working and my father gave him a cheque for our membership, we paid out of our wages. Most people other than myself were from the captive nations, migrants that came away from communist nations, they joined because of Chifley and Menzies. Imagine the population in 1960 to what it is today, and now we only have 4 000 – 5 000 members. The sad part is that we, to my knowledge, have very few of the people aged between thirty and fifty, where we would expect to get a lot of our candidates from. These are the people who are in the main; married with families, have high education costs, high health insurance costs, and also attempting to pay off a mortgage (if they’ve found enough for a deposit), if not high rent. I suggested to those above me, why not research the figures of how many people we’ve got on concession and young liberals, to compare that age group (to the rest of the party). To my knowledge this hasn’t been done, or
least not made available to rank and file members. If you reduce the fees for concession and nonconcession I believe we would gain in membership and I don’t think the (revenue) loss overall would not be a huge amount. One of the arguments in the past has been that postage costs made it essential to increase membership fees. Most, even us, are contacted electronically, not by post. They just push a few buttons, so that argument no longer stands. And if you had those figures, our rank and file members at state council would be able to make a judgement. I made an enquiry twelve months ago to the ALP, their membership was $45 for small business and $40 for others. I didn’t find what the concession rate is, but that’s not hard to find out. I understand of course that they get substantial support from the trade union movement. But now federally the political parties are compensated with every vote they gain, which has lessened the dependency on
Stan Evans (right) with son Iain Evans (left) and current member for Davenport Sam Duluk MP (centre).
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membership fees and donations. I believe you could cut the senior membership in half to $40.
The party used to employ membership organisers to sign up members, is this something the party should be looking at again? When I first joined a man walked in to the quarry, as a dedicated membership organiser and asked my father if he wanted to join as he had been active and I had been handing out how-to-vote cards since I was twelve years old. And they picked up leads to go from one to another, somebody would say so Joe down the street in the quarry, he’s a good Liberal. I know it’s expensive but I offered nearly twenty years ago to do it for the cost of some meals
“WHEN I FIRST JOINED... A DEDICATED MEMBERSHIP ORGANISER ASKED MY FATHER IF HE WANTED TO JOIN...” away from home. And I approached car dealers to make a car available and some of the service stations to give some fuel, and return the car every month. It wouldn’t be a new car, it would be a trade-in, and you would use it for a month and take it back and they would sell it. And they wouldn’t lose much, it would be still about the same value. And headquarters knocked me back, I didn’t want money, I was prepared to do it as a volunteer, just for the party to pick up my meal away. No accommodation, I wouldn’t be leaving the area but if I did go in to the country area, many rural people would put you up for a night and give us some leads around the town or even a couple of nights, or even a motel might put you up for a night if you were doing it. So deep
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down I was disgusted and disappointed. And I still think there would be people prepared to do that now, even for a small wage, a percentage of membership raised for that year or something. I doorknocked all of Kavel when John Olsen came back from the Senate to the state. And I mean every home, sometimes people weren’t home, but every home, I went back multiple times, and I doubled the membership. And had over 200 people who indicated they were Liberals who wouldn’t join, and I’ve asked them if they would like to receive our literature and stay in contact; and sometime in the future you might want to help handing out how-tovote cards or give us information or even join. That list is virtually disappeared, John Olsen looked after it, but after that it just disintegrated instead of adding to it. That’s just an example of what can be done. I also doorknocked in Fisher and signed up people, I don’t remember the numbers but it was quite substantial, I more than doubled them. And again most or a lot of them are no longer members anymore. And at my age, I’m 86, it’s not easy to go out doorknocking all day, and remember you have to have an ability to concentrate and that’s not as easy as it used to be. They do need (membership) organisers. Mr Pollard was the one they had for years and years, and he’d just come to us and check up on the membership and see if there was anyone else around the town. It’s marvellous how many will
“OUR MEMBERS IF YOU LOOK BACK HAVE GONE FROM OVER 50,000 TO UNDER 5,000” join if you approach them. And especially if it’s the lesser figure, see if two people join at $80, or well they have $140 for two, it’s a lot of money. And yet
two antiques like the wife and myself, you can join for $45 for two. There’s a big difference with $140 for two.
primary production. And they were good men, and so we tendered a reasonably low price compared to others for the contract, the price was £7.10s per acre.
So I think it’s ridiculous that the Party, you can do the figures, how many people were in South Australia in 1960 (969, 340 in 1961) and how many there are today (1,638,232 in 2011). And our members if you look back have gone from over 50 000 to under 5 000. There’s something wrong isn’t there? Our philosophies are the same. I will admit though, that modern people are less enthusiastic
We were invited in, three of us, in to the department to discuss our tendered price. They told us our price was too low, it was only just more than half to the nearest tendered price, and they wanted us to increase the price so they could ensure we would complete the contract. We refused, and got them to ensure us that we would be paid for at least 220 acres because the contract stated a minimum of 220 acres. We had stepped it off before we tendered and estimated that there was no more than 200 acres. Mr Paul and Mr Jacobs were the two men in the
“THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG ISN’T THERE? OUR PHILOSOPHIES ARE THE SAME” about joining anything, unless they get a benefit out of it like their local football match. I’m a live member of Lions International, and I’ve been a member since 1972, before that I was in Apex, now Apex is nearly finished and Lions, we have a good membership at Blackwood because of selling goods and that. But Lions, Rotary, all of them are struggling to maintain membership.
What is the history behind the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman? Well I can claim to be the first person to be successful to have parliament accept, the lower house, that the position of ombudsman should be created. The background is this, our family had a contract to clear all of the growth, trees, and undergrowth for an area of land that was going to be inundated when they raised the wall of the Mount Bold reservoir in the early 1960s, raised it by 22 ft. It was in the time of the Menzies credit squeeze, we had a big gang of men in quarries, timber cutting and
room, they brought a surveyor in to the room who surveyed the area and he convinced them that it was more than 220 acres. And we said our profit would be the difference between the final figure and 220, because we didn’t believe there would be 220 acres, and they laughed at us. We were bushies and we took an elderly gentleman who used to do that sort of estimation and assured us that it wasn’t 220 acres. When it came to final payment the figure, they sent us a cheque, that was for 202.5 acres. In other words 17.5 acres under 220, and that was what we banked on to be our profit, at least to keep our men. Menzies put a credit squeeze on and a lot of people couldn’t borrow money, and if we hadn’t had that contact we would’ve had to put a lot of our men off. As it was we employed some more, and there was plenty looking for work because things were tough, because of the credit squeeze Menzies brought on. We phoned our accountant and told him we had returned the cheque for final payment, and we were only borderline ourselves by then, and told them to keep their money. They contacted us and said we had to take it, how could they fix their books. We told them to tell it was a donation to the department. We
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then spoke to our accountant who happened to know some people, a chap who was a lawyer, and they ended up agreeing to pay it. I went to see Mr Paul and he was prepared to support it, their argument was that crown law told them that the contract was ambiguous, could be interpreted either way, and therefore they should pay the lower figure, in the end it was resolved. When I went in to Parliament, I think I made the speech in 1969, I made the point about how unfair this had been to our family, and something needed to be done about it, in case of future episodes. Of course the lawyers had told us that we should have had it in writing at the time of the agreement, but we trusted people in government departments, at least we thought we should trust them. As I walked down the chamber the Clark of the Parliament, Gordon Coombe, said to me Stan in 1966 Robin Millhouse had raised a general debate with the idea of an ombudsman but had never tested the house with a vote. I informed the Party Room, after researching the ombudsman, Swedish origin I believe, which means people’s protector from over regulation. I said in the Party Room that I want to introduce a motion that in the opinion of this house, the House of Assembly, that the office of ombudsman should be created. And I made a statement to the press once I put the motion up. And I think it would’ve been about July 13th or 14th in the Midday News that my Premier Steele Hall was reported as saying that he wouldn’t appoint a super inquisitor to intimidate public servants. The same or next day, Don Dunstan the Leader of the Opposition said it would be an unnecessary appointment. Once Dunstan had made that statement Steele Hall agreed I could put the motion up as it wasn’t going to be supported. A couple of days later three Labor members Cyril Hutchens, Ron
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Loveday and Lloyd Hughes told me to keep it on the notice paper without putting it to a vote until after the ALP’s annual meeting later that year, I think it was November. Because they were going to change Dunstan’s mind, and it would become Labor Party policy. I did that, and once the Labor Party supported the idea I was asked by my Premier that he would prefer I didn’t put it to a vote, I pointed out to him that he had agreed for me to put it to a vote and it wasn’t my fault that Dunstan and the Labor Party had changed their mind, and that’s how the ombudsman came to be accepted by Parliament. In May the next year when we lost the election, on May 30th, just after I asked Dunstan a question he said of course we’re going to do that, and I said I just want to make sure that would be on the records. And the pity of it all is that it was a Liberal thought and we never got the credit of implementing it. We left the door open for the Labor Party to say Don Dunstan did it, even though he himself opposed it, it was his Party that changed his mind. Stan Evans is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, former Young Liberal member, and the former Member for Onkaparinga (1968-70), Fisher (1970-85), and Davenport (1985-93).
Young Liberal Federal Council 2016 COURTNEY STEPHENS Each year in January delegates from all over Australia come together for Young Liberal Federal Convention. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Young Liberal Movement at a federal level so it was fitting that the ACT Young Liberals hosted Federal Convention in our nation’s political Capital. Six delegates from South Australia travelled to Canberra to participate in one of the most enjoyable events on the Young Liberal Calendar. Highlights of 2016 Fed Con included a spirited policy debate in Australia’s first federal House of Representatives Chamber at Old Parliament House, cocktails at RG Menzies House - home to the Menzies Research Centre and the Federal Secretariat, the Gala Ball, held in the ANZAC Hall at the Australian War Memorial with the Hon Peter Costello AC as the guest speaker and parting drinks in the Senate Courtyard at Parliament House. In addition to thorough policy debate, the Young Liberals who gathered from all over the country heard from a range of guest speakers, including His Excellency Shmuel Ben-Shmuel, Ambassador of Israel to Australia, Nick Cater, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre, Senator Zed Seselja, Major General Jim Molan AO DSC, Malcolm Mackerras AO and Senator the Hon Arthur Sinodinos AO. The uncontested AGM on Sunday saw the election of Claire Chandler from Tasmania as President of the Federal Movement and David Howard from the ACT as Vice President. Senator the Hon Eric Abetz was appointed Patron of the Federal Movement for the coming year.
President Alex Hyde and Vice President Courtney Stephens at Menzies House.
With this year bringing a Federal Election, Young Liberal Federal Council was a great opportunity to network with fellow Young Liberals from all over Australia and share ideas and campaign strategies with the aim of helping the Coalition Government get re-elected in 2016. SA YL Rhys Williams was appointed the Campaigns Director on the YL Federal Executive and we wish him well in this busy election year. Thanks to SA Young Liberal President Alex Hyde who led our SA delegation for the third year in a row and to Rhys Williams, Henry Blacketer, Jocelyn Sutcliffe and Kelvin Binns who represented SA so well over the weekend. Courtney Stephens is State Vice President of the South Australian Young Liberal Movement.
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Combating the XENOPHON FACTOR ROBERT KATSAMBIS Leading up to this election we have heard from our parliamentarians, candidates and from the party membership at large that we need to fight Xenophon. Most of the discussion has centred around the need to fight hard. Some have even suggested that we need to fight him in the same way that we fight Labor and the Greens. But by coming out and attacking Xenophon, you run the risk of making him more popular. You also risk losing preferences from Xenophon voters who think you’re being too harsh on him. Nick Xenophon is a clever politician, one who is very aware of the unique position he is in. He can assess his strengths and weaknesses to devise the strategies that have been working very well for him. In this article I seek to (1) identify Nick Xenophon’s strategy, and (2) to make recommendations as to how we might combat this.
Xenophon’s strategy The NXT has no ideology. This is evident simply by observing his policy platform, but it is also something he readily acknowledges. In fact, he promotes the very fact that his team is not welded to any political doctrine. This means on that he can choose from any stance on any policy. Further, his team is not a major party. This has two important consequences. First, he does not need to win get a majority of seats. His power comes from achieving the balance of power in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
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Second, because he does not need majority support, he does not need to appeal to the majority. This being the case, he does not need to have a policy position on most or every issue, as would a party trying to form government. Couple this purported centrism with his minority status and you set the stage for Nick Xenophon’s most dangerous advantage: he gets to fight on his terms.
“HE GETS TO FIGHT... ON THE ISSUES WHICH HE BELIEVES HE HAS ALREADY WON THE DEBATE” He gets to fight when he wants and on the issues which he believes he has already won the debate. In other words, when he fights he exercises a lot of control over the debate. Such debates are usually on issues where he takes the moral high ground. This is usually some issue where either or both major parties have failed or are in default. The message is usually simple, and people are outraged. The two most notable occasions where Xenophon has done this are in the debates on pokie reform and the subs. He has been able to capitalise on a perceived default of the government of the day and take what is hard not to describe as the clear moral high ground. Knowing this, what can we do to combat Xenophon at the upcoming election?
Take the moral high ground If Xenophon fights you with a moral argument, you need to respond with a moral argument, that is, a superior moral argument. The people who vote for him don’t want to hear about the cost-benefit analysis of building submarines in SA or the economic benefits of poker machines. They look for someone who will stand up for the little guy.
“THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR HIM DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS...” There is only one example which comes to mind where Xenophon was beaten on the moral front. In the 2014 State Election he came out in support of cutting penalty rates for small business. Labor exploited this unusual move from Xenophon, took the moral high ground, and punished him. We need to be on the lookout for such opportunities in this campaign.
Neutralise the independent factor Xenophon has gained a reputation amongst the electorate for being an independent voice that is above politics.
announcements, posting on social media, and potentially making the same mistakes as their major party counterparts. The electorate needs to know that Nick Xenophon is no longer an independent. Among his supporters would be those who only come out to vote for Nick Xenophon, but won’t vote for the people he puts up. In fact, some Xenophon voters might even be unhappy that he is now part of the partisan system he has railed against for his entire career. It might even be worth considering whether to convey this to the electorate; that Nick Xenophon is not actually running in this election.
Conclusion Regardless of whether this is the right way to fight Xenophon, one thing that must be kept in mind is that we cannot fight him the way we fight our traditional opponents. His brand and strategy will not allow us to. This being the case, we need to be smarter in the way in which we engage with him in debate. How we seek to do this will be interesting to watch, and in any event, we should always look to learn lessons from this experience for future elections. Robert Katsambis is Administration Director of the South Australian Young Liberal Movement.
As mentioned above, people who vote for Xenophon seem to be disillusioned with major parties. They lament the evasiveness and cut-throat politicking that goes on and search the field of candidates for someone who is above all that. But now he is running with a considerable team of candidates in the Senate and most lower house seats. In order to maintain his brand he will need to show some leadership. All of these candidates will be making
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The Fourth Factor HENRY DAVIS Land. Labour. Capital. The three factors of production. South Australia has each in abundance. We have the 10th most land per capita also rich in minerals, access to cheap loans and inexpensive equipment and an unprecedented number of graduates from world class tertiary institutions; South Australia is well placed to dominate the world economy. And yet we have an unemployment rate of 7.3% unreasonably represented by young, intelligent and enthusiastic graduates. But is there a fourth factor? Wikipedia the ultimate font of all knowledge asks the very same question. The economic models I learnt at school and university never spoke of entrepreneurialship as a fourth and quantifiable factor of production, there certainly was no focus on how to grow what I say is the most important factor of all. Governments in Australia have focused on supporting small business through tax breaks, giving easy access to information through Business Enterprise Centres but there has been little to no investment in cultivating an attitude in Australians particularly young Australians to take Land, Labour and Capital and transform them into a Google, Fruchocs or local bakery.
“I BELIEVE THIS GOVT. SHOULD PLACE A FAR GREATER EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPING YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS” Tax breaks and easing of insolvency laws is a good start, but if there is no underpinning desire by this generation to take this risk then no amount of incentives will forge an entrepreneur. I believe this government should place a far greater emphasis on
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developing young entrepreneurs. Even if they don’t end up starting their own business, understanding what their employer is trying to achieve is a valuable trait in any employee.
“a lemonade stand was the classic way to gain this entrepreneurial trait...” A lemonade stand was the classic way to gain this entrepreneurial trait but never in my lifetime (and I am 25) have I ever seen a lemonade stand. My father was critical of my generation and he would say “back in my day we always used to have a paper run or lemonade stand… grumble grumble PlayStation… outside… kids these days”. Now I used to fade in and out of consciousness whenever a sentence started with “back in my day…” but perhaps there was some truth in my dad’s grumblings. The closest I have seen to a small business being run on a footpath was two young children in my electorate in Burnside selling lemons for $2 each… they didn’t even juice the things! As it turned out I did buy one… I had done the shopping earlier that day and much to the displeasure of my partner I had forgotten to buy lemons for lemon cheesecake… shows you how far product placement can go. Governments certainly haven’t been kind to the lemonade stand industry. In December 2014 the Bunbury City Council shut down a cupcake and lemonade stand due to health and safety concerns. Now I personally believe this is ridiculous but to be honest I would probably support the council’s decision to shut down the business. We have rules and regulations now that cover everyone. In some circumstances these regulations can result in absurdity. On the other hand they can result in a
multimillion dollar court case against the council for negligence in the highly unlikely event that boron ant poison was used as an artificial sweetener. There are a multitude of ways that government can support entrepreneurial development without the perilous and life threatening dangers associated with the sale of sugar, lemon juice and water from behind your front fence. The easiest way perhaps is to integrate basic economics and business skills into the curriculum. Now I understand that our curriculum is full on, but I believe the purpose of our curriculum is to create well rounded citizens who are able to take up opportunities in the workforce. SOHCAHTOA, the history of 16th century England and how to make a paper snowflake are generally forgotten by early adulthood but the reason why these facts and skills are taught is more for the purpose of instilling an interest and general competency in maths, history and the arts rather than for everyday practical use.
“...integrate basic economics and business skills into the curriculum”
a heated and emotional discussion to come to a resolution. This experience gave me the desire to start my own business and one day I hope to do just that. But in the meantime it gave me an appreciation for what my employer is trying to achieve. It allowed me to understand that my job was wholly dependant on the success of my employer. The more profit my employer makes the greater the possibility that I will get a Christmas bonus or that we can take on more employees. Instilling an entrepreneurial attitude not only gives me the ambition to one day start my own business but also grow my boss’s business. I believe a greater emphasis on cultivating an entrepreneurial attitude in young people will not only result in a greater use of our existing resources of land, labour and capital but also increase the output of our existing industries. With our abundance of these resources there is no reason why South Australia should not have full employment and once again compete with Sydney and Melbourne and be home to our fair share of the top 200 ASX listed companies. Henry Davis is a member of the Young Liberal Policy Committee.
The most valuable week in my whole education, including 6 years at university studying law, economics and philosophy… was at the end of year 10 where my school ran a program called “Australian Business Week”. My year was split into 12 teams with the objective of running a simulated manufacturing corporation. At the end of the week the company with the highest share price won. This week incorporated product design, marketing, packaging, employment, output of factories which culminated in a shareholder meeting where we had to explain to 400 people why they should keep us as directors of the company. We were judged on all of these factors and were accountable at the end of the week for our decisions. If our profits were down we had to close down factories and reduce the number of employees to cover the deficit. Even for a simulated program conducted by year 10 students the decision to downsize was difficult and took over 3 hours with
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saylm congratulates yl member kelvin binns
Above: SALM member Kelvin Binns at his successful preselection for Kingston. Below right: Kelvin Binns.
The SAYLM would like to congratulate member Kelvin Binns on his successful preselection in the federal seat of Kingston. As a hard working member of the Movement we wish him all the best in the upcoming election. He is sure to give the current member Amanda Rishworth a run for her money. If you would like to help Kelvin in Kingston please contact our Campaigns Director Kyriaco. campaigns@sayoungliberals.com
saylm end of year super bowls
Above: SA Young Liberal members enjoying lawn bowls at the Adelaide Bowling Club.
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ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY LIBERAL CLUB AT O-WEEK 2016
Above: Sam Duluk MP, Vincent Tarzia MP, and Boothby candidate Nicolle Flint with Club members. Below left: Terry Stephens MLC and Rachel Sanderson MP with members. Right: David Speirs MP with members.
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saylm xmas bbq
Above: SA President Alex Hyde moving a policy motion in the HOR Chamber at Old Parliament House.
Above: SAYLM members at the Christmas BBQ in Seacliff with Boothby candidate Nicolle Flint.
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