What background experience do you bring to the political table?
Work experience –
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- council labourer; bricklayer’s labourer; orderly on a male geriatric ward;
- eight years as a regular army soldier and officer;
- ten years in the Australian Army Reserve;
- free-lance security consultant in the Middle East;
- sales manager for TNT in Europe;
- general manager of a risk management business in Asia;
- established my own successful business in Australia as an advisor on kidnap for ransom, extortion and maritime piracy negotiations.
Life experience - lived and worked in:
- four European countries,
- two Asian countries,
- two Middle East countries;
- two Central American countries;
I speak three European languages well and Japanese badly.
What are your main priorities for the Upper Hunter?
- Employment for the unemployed;
- Lower electricity prices;
- Prudent, thrifty and proper management, and delivery on budget and on time, of major government projects (inexpensive and reliable electricity generation; employment for the unemployed; NDIS; Gonski) in New England, to be achieved via MP consultation with relevant parties, and
- MP engagement with, and oversight of these projects.
What is your stance on the Scone bypass / railway overpass?
It is always a challenge for local commerce when a by-pass is proposed for rural towns. Saying that, it is noted that many towns that have been by-passed have found ways of maintaining their local economies eg by attracting more tourists. This proposal does not address the fact that Scone will still be divided into two by the railway track, which is also still an issue for emergency vehicles.
A rigourous cost-benefit analysis that also includes intangibles such as results or failures of emergency services, together with comprehensive community consultation are the first necessary steps.
What is your stance on renewable energy and the balance between mining and agriculture in the region?
Government interference in energy markets via huge subsidies for renewables has grievously distorted energy markets with:
- five-fold increases in electricity prices;
- 100,000 disconnections;
- financial distress;
- job losses;
- business failures;
- third-world blackouts.
Australia was promised lower prices after privitisation and renewables - since proven a hollow, failed promise.
I support proper balance between mining, agriculture and environmental protection, achieved with consultation, planning, budgeting and implementation.
Since 2007 proper process by politicians and bureaucrats - cost- benefit analysis, advice from diametrically opposed subject-matter specialists, consultation with communities, careful planning and implementation, and rigorous but sensible regulation properly applied - has been ignored.
What are the top three areas of concern to you in this electorate?
- Unemployment, Education, Training and Skills
- Electricity prices
- A balance between protecting agricultural land and the positive benefits of mining.
Why should the Upper Hunter vote for you?
Since 2007, Australia has suffered failed political leadership and chaotic government delivered by shamelessly selfish, self-interested and self-enriching politicians. They have inflicted, with careless indifference and reckless disregard, major policy failures on us and generations coming after - electricity generation and prices, pink batts, insecure borders, BER, NBN, French submarines, JobActive, Gonski 2.0 - and $500 billion (and increasing) debt.
A vote for Nationals, Labor or the Greens is a vote for a continuation of this mindless destruction of our prosperity and the future of our children and grandchildren.
Warwick Stacey will seek change by daily shaming our failed leaders.
