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Three things I want to put out there before we go further.

Firstly, congratulations to Callum on being re-elected President of the KnightHawks MC. As I have done on previous occasions, I jump on the ballot as an ATO measure. I had and continue to have full confidence in Cal's leadership that we need at this important time.



Secondly, I will be contesting the Senate ballot for the KHMC on the 25th.

Refer to my last article on behalf of the KHMC and Cal's article as PP.



Thirdly, I have actively sought my party's support to return to a KHMC-led government as Minister for Foreign Affairs.

This is a post I am highly experienced in, since 2010 when I started in the Foreign Service in the Timeoin and earlier Majester governments as Director of the Ambassador Program in DoFA's Office of the Foreign Service (as it was known at the time under administrative arrangements) and later Deputy Minister and Minister under successive governments.

While a political animal in nature, I have always approached the diplomatic service with a strong course and desire to form stronger relationships, especially with countries we haven't had much of a history with (at least a good one).

Here are some of my policies that I will take to the Senate election and successively to the executive branch, if called by a KHMC CP/Prime Minister.



Domestic issues

TAXATION

This is the raw egg of domestic legislation that is best judged by the Department of Finance with their advice and the Senate's consent. The KHMC has long supported this approach and the majority of Senators have conventionally followed.



CITIZENSHIP

This is perhaps our greatest challenge, even though it doesn't need to be. First we have to look back at the history to understand why the vacuum in the current policy debate.

In the days of the old eAus Republic, we had a two-pronged approach following the historic eAus-eIndo wars and the successful take back of our country.

First, ASIO, an homage to the RL agency, was led in secret for the important task of doing deep background on each applicant. This was a time of great uncertainty and the Angels & Demon threat was ever present. Click here to read some of the history about what they did to our country from within.

The second was the strict mandate given by the CP/Prime Minister of the day to the Minister for Immigration (DoImm) to pass any applicant for citizenship before a Senator was to accept them.

Over time, it proved to work, with only the odd rogue Senator doing it either a) by accident (which was really not an excuse at all); or b) a PTOer that snuck in in the days after Senate was no longer competitive (when game rules changed individual election to party ticket election). The latter took care of a lot of the problems and it put more emphasis on the role of the Party President.

Where are we today?

Essentially, the system is broken because we no longer have a systemic process, rather an individually adopted one.

Our Party President Callumh123 has submitted a proposal to the party and it has been accepted to take the lead in reforming this process once more. It's not an arduous plan, nor would it be an impost on governments. It provides a simple layer of security to best ensure a safer nation. It also sends a clear message that all are welcome and they have nothing to fear if their intentions are swell. However, it also says that we as a nation are not to be used and abused for selfish ends (e.g. PTOs).

I join my party colleagues in taking up this challenge, if elected.



On the executive front..

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Australia has been cursed since e-birth as a land of limited resource wealth, dangerously positioned between a material-hungry Indonesia and a largely foreign-occupied New Zealand. The geopolitics of change in South Africa since Turkish occupation causes us to be engaged more on the diplomatic front and confront the problem on game mechanical terms - not based on the personal desires and relationships of the governments of the day. This approach has seen great benefits over the course of the past month with South Africa.

To be sure, free and successful in the long term, working hand-in-hand with the Department of Defence and not as its traditional adversary in counter-productive goal-setting, Australia's borders are best secured with diplomatic arrangements in our region. Game changes over time have formalised alliance structures and caused tension to mount on the domestic front to endorse global trends.

Our best response is to remain on good terms with our neighbours and endorse regional alliance priorities that best suit our goals and are appreciative of our economic position.



DEFENCE AND THE BROADER NATIONAL SECURITY NARRATIVE

We have proven time over that we can't fight tanks with rocks, nor can we afford to resource our soldiers with a truncated war. CPs and MoDs in the future have to make serious inroads to prevent mission creep leading to poor calculations causing lengthy campaigns to claw ourselves back from total occupation at all costs.



These are just some of the ways the KnightHawks are once again giving the Senate a sense of realism, in memory of a time when the great debaters put their names forward and offered more than a name in exchange for gold.

That time when they had a vision for eAustralia and with your support on the 25th and 26th of April, eAustralia will have a vision once more.

Thank you.


TJ
Senate Candidate
KnightHawks Military Council