Unlike Norwegians Australian Citizens are denied the rights to appropriate royalties and the lifestyle that should flow from it because its minerals and oil is being stolen by the rest of the world's thieving corporations who are not paying fair share for the wealth being extracted from the country.
Should've got involved in the 1970s when they were nearly nationalised before Gough got a coup on him.
Wasn't here then.
That IS because the said 'Royalties' are divided between the Federal Government and the English Crown.
The flow on if the correct amount was paid would see free health & education services, adequate housing to protect the citizens, cheap power and full employment.
How can it be that China pays a few cents per litre for gas but we pay twenty or more times that, Coca Cola pays cents per million litres of water we pay hundreds of dollars?
I recently read that most of the land in Canada is owned by the Queen. It is time that the courts overturned this situation recognising that those who gave their service and lives to acquire the assets were not properly compensated.
@FrayedBear Most ordinary Australians do NOT realise that the ORIGINAL precincts of almost ALL Australian Capital Cities, etc, ARE built upon what is known as 'Crown Lands,' i.e. LANDS that BELONG to the Ruling English Monarch, and there is a rental payment every that MUST be paid to the "Western Lands Commission" that collects those payment on behalf of the Ruling English Monarch.
When Cook shoved the English Flag into Aussie soil, he DID NOT claim the land for the people, he claimed the land for the Ruling English Monarch and ALL monarchs who followed on after.
The same thing happened in EVERY country/land that the English invaded AND the only way out of it is for the People and the country to gain its independence from England and to declare itself a Republic.