For the discussion on employment

For Full Employment, ask "What jobs need to be done?"
The questions then are "How to pay for them," and "Who can do them."

False mind-sets are: -

• Jobs cannot be done unless they make short-term commercial profits
• Technology will make human work unnecessary and there will be endless leisure. We are living in a time of 'endless' resources that we are busy ending. Technology cannot do well many things that need to be done - in dealing with people, and in the small things that do not homogenise with monoculture agriculture or mass production.
• Any job at all is worth doing and worth saving - even if it is armaments or totally destructive

Infrastructure

Conserve marine and forest resources and water supply. Prevent and repair land and river degradation, salination and natural catastrophes' possibly irretrievable damage, as in western NSW and the vital Murray-Darling Basin.

Eradicate pests. The world's defence expenditure should be diverted to the Landcare fight.

Sewage systems restructured and rebuilt to stop our gross waste of our most renewable fertiliser. Re-use heavy metals and grey water

Transport infrastructure vastly improved and extended Society

Housing and community environments that are decent for everyone and prepared for future and water-saving. Contrast Rubbishtown spreading across Melbourne's north-east, and the higher-density junk-building with the Saving-the-Suburbs when they are worth saving.

Education that is lifelong to produce resilient adults

Childcare that is leisurely to give children less herding and more freedom

Households -will require manpower to be sustainable and waste-saving, more essential for economic survival than markets that produce waste.

Decent care for the sick, handicapped and elderly .

Products more innovative, conserving, renovatable, durable, updatable, recyclable - distinctive, innovative, Australian cultural; Fashions that are beautiful, useful and comfortable, for home, export, tourists; Shops and repairers for Conservation Products; Re-Uses and salvage for everything.

Research & Development -Increase, not cut, R &D, production & sales:

Preserving unique flora and fauna; Fertilising the land without pollution;

Preventing bushfires;

Food sources that are easily grown and do not deplete soils;

Manufacturing techniques that are Conservationist;

Pests and weeds can have uses found for them, since they abound ;

Plants to withstand climates, especially high levels of carbon dioxide;

Technology for renewable non-polluting solar and wind energy sources;

Building environment friendly, not producing waste and at every stage.

Working conditions - Workshare and Eight-Hours-Day awards to reduce the load on the increasingly overworked workforce

Look around you to see jobs needing to be done - even more street-signs!

FINANCING JOBS

1. Circulating currency. When people with jobs spend their money in ways that both meet their needs and give employment to others, then money circulates within a community as it should, as a means of exchange for goods and services, instead of flowing into sinks or out of the country - as would increasingly happen with a business-driven multilateral agreement on investment. When long-term benefits are the goal, taxation to pay for public sector jobs in these areas is investment in the future, not the dole.
2. Regional currency. Regional currency gives further impetus to the circulation of currency within a community. It is government issued as 10% of its payments of wages, pensions and welfare, or even as a certain one-off sum issued to all citizens, and it is legal tender only within the region where it is issued, and cannot be exchanged for national currency or banked in the same account as national currency. It is to buy services and products of that region - and it circulates continuously.
3. Benevolence Taxes.A Benevolence-Tax is a tax on great wealth in which the payer can stipulate the benevolent use to be made of it, from a published list of purposes and organizations which would like to receive Benevolences (new meaning for an old word.)
   This super-tax is extracted from the rich taxpayer by the Tax Office and forwarded by them to the purpose or organization, to prevent any funny business. The payoff for the Benevolent Taxpayer is honor and glory. (see detailed account.) The tax is based on gross assets without loopholes. Honor and glory spinoff. Every year the Tax Office will provide newspapers with a list to publish on their front pages of the particular Benevolence Taxes paid by those with incomes over say $ OAP 15 (15 times the income of an old-age pensioner) in order to reduce them to that maximum income.
   Plaques are put on whatever his/her money pays for, and their name is immortalised - eg. A Liverpool Bus might carry the name and badge of Ringo Starr's Bus, a Railway Carriage carry the Royal Logo of Prince Charles, a Library could label one of its areas the William J. Bottler Reading Area, with a plaque in the lobby explaining why. Some institutions could have Honour Boards in their lobbies, to list Benevolent Taxpayers as they benefit from them. A subsidised sporting event could have the Benevolent Taxpayer's name emblazoned on the fence where advertisements usually go, and listed on the programs - he/she could share in trophy awarding. A mended road could have an addition to a major signpost - eg. 'Mended as a public benefit 1991 by Derry Dremer'. Some plaques could even be inset in the entrance hall of a national Hall of Fame linked to the Museum, eg. "Murdoch's Benevolence Tax reduced the National Debt to near zilch."