Build a sovereign, self-sustaining, high-technology, farming and industrial export nation of united families. Resource Extraction Levy funds it. Sovereign Build Corporation builds it. Sovereign Wealth Fund compounds it. Australia stops digging things up and selling them raw.
Australia sits on the most valuable resource base on earth. The Resource Extraction Levy: one payment, locked rates 20 years, 3–6 month approvals, 6c/kWh power, SBC infrastructure at cost. Fair return to the nation. $40–80 billion per year from sovereign resources above normal return — funds the SWF, SBC corridors, tax reduction, and (from Year 5) the Citizen Dividend. Mining companies get certainty, speed, and the cheapest industrial power on earth. The nation gets its fair share.
1,000 GW of desert solar. SBC water pipeline from the monsoon north — 30,000 GL per year south. Food sovereignty — processed here, not exported raw. Every megawatt, every litre, every tonne value-added before it leaves Australia. The country that exports more LNG than almost anyone on earth and cannot refine its own fuel ends that contradiction.
AI Institute on the Visionway corridor. Sovereign data centres. CSIRO rebuilt as a commercialisation engine, not just a research institution. Space launch facility at the Continental Crossroads. Australian data stays in Australia under Australian law. The knowledge economy doesn't have to be coastal.
Farmers First legislated as the governing principle for the Agriculture Department. Bradfield water vision — 30,000 GL south per year. Food sovereignty treated as national security. Abattoir access restored. Supermarket margins AI-monitored. The farmer gets a fair price. Detail in the Farmers 1st one-pager.
Affordable homes. $10/hr childcare. 26 weeks parental leave. $0 GP visit. Granny flats as-of-right. Free relationship counselling. Country towns with schools, medical, community, and purpose. The family is the test for every policy. Detail in the Family Law one-pager.
Not divided by class, region, or background. United by sovereignty, honesty, fairness, family, and the belief that government should tell the truth. The people person — all groups, united. Every faith that teaches love, compassion, and dignity has a home here. Separation of church and state — but the moral foundation of the great faith traditions is the foundation this platform is built on.
22 departments reduced to 7. 60 ministers to 8. Red tape cut systematically. Every regulation tested: does the benefit to the community clearly outweigh the cost to the individual? If not, it goes. Government does the things only government can do, and stops doing the things that should never have been government's job.
Budget near-balance Year 1 (deficit ~$8B vs current $77B). First surplus Year 3. Debt trajectory reversed Year 2. REL funds the program — no new debt required. The fiscal model is honest about Year 1 and ambitious about Year 5. Every commitment costed. Every number published.
Clean energy exported via Asia Link. Green aluminium, steel, hydrogen — made here, exported everywhere. The cleanest food on earth at premium prices. Compute exported to Asia from sovereign data centres. Australia sells what it makes, not just what it digs up. The difference is hundreds of billions of dollars over a generation.
Every faith that teaches love, compassion, and dignity has a home in Australia. Separation of church and state preserved. The moral foundation of the great faith traditions — protect the vulnerable, tell the truth, work honestly, honour family, respect the land — is the foundation this platform is built on. Identifying with any of them is not required. Living by them is the political programme.
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.