Citizens Electoral Council Candidate for Pearce, Chris Pepper, responds to our questionnaire

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Citizens Electoral Council Candidate for Pearce, Chris Pepper, responded :

>> Chris Pepper
>> Citizens Electoral Council
>> Candidate for Pearce, Western Australia
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>> What are your thoughts on asylum seekers?
>> They are being used as political footballs – fix the underlying problem
>> and the refugees will be no problem – ie peace, production and no
>> interferance from other countries in thier governments. This sounds far
>> fetched but it is acheivable with poliitcal will
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>> What are your thoughts on public transport?
>> The country needs to invest in capital infrastructure such as high speed
>> rail networks between all major cities and towns to carry both people and
>> frieght around Australia together with the necessary structures to move
>> around the towns and cities
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>> What are your thoughts on renewable energy?
>> You cannot run a steel mill on wind and and solar power and our party is
>> proposing a move to clean new generation nuclear power for electricy and
>> copius amounts of water through desalination
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>> Do you support or oppose the introduction of the R18+ rating
>> classification for video games?
>> Yes most of the violece from youth today is inspired by these and violent
>> films
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>> Do you support or oppose the proposed internet filter?
>> Neutral on this censor ship matter- who will control the censors
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>> Do you support or oppose gay marriage?
>> Neutral
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>> What are your thoughts on abortion?
>> I think this decision should be left to the women
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>> Do you support or oppose the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia?
>> No I do not support this proposal – will lead to legalised suicide of
>> healthy people
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>> What are your thoughts on stem cell research?
>> If we do not exand our knowlege we might as well live in the stone age.
>> Human cognitition is what separates us from the animals
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>> What are your thoughts on education?
>> a good scientific based eduction is necessary to advance civilsation
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>> What are your thoughts on campaign finance disclosure?
>> It should be disclosed to stop participation in conflict of interest
>> matters
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>> What are your thoughts on climate change?
>> Climate change has been around for thousnds of years and will still be
>> arround in the future. If man has the arrogance to think he an change it
>> with reducing a few tonnes of CO2 then I invite him to read the poem A
>> Sunburnt Country written in our early history. I would also point out
>> that
>> we are carbon life forms as is the vegetation and other life on this
>> planent. CO2 is produced naturally by the planet in amounts that pale man
>> produced CO2 into insignicance. One should take into account the the real
>> climate affecting sources such the cycle of the sun, the earth’s
>> osillations ,the solar sytem movements in the galaxy all of which range
>> from 11years to thousands of years
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>> What are your thoughts on water?
>> Water is a problem but if polictal interferance had not stopped the
>> schemes that were to follow the Snowy Scheme we could have had a drought
>> proofed Australia. It is not to late to restart these and other projects
>> together with Nuclear Power Stations which have the capacty to make a
>> river of water flow inland every day.
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>> Do you support or oppose standing order 50?
>> The human race needs, and always has had some form of diety for their
>> belief in a future for mankind
To discontinue the prayers before commencing Parliament is a denial of
mankinds belief of a future
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>> Are there any local issues you are trying to highlight with your
>> campaign?
>> If the CEC policy was adopted there would be no local issues such as
>> finance, roads, frieght, housing, education, health, jobs and a failing
>> agro industry
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>> What do you think about the media’s coverage of the election so far?
>> It is a Circus