A freely accessible, official, national land register and database should be established to create clear definitions of what constitutes ownership or control of land and to keep detailed records of all land tenure and land use information.
All Australian land, both urban and rural, should be owned and controlled by Australian citizens or entities incorporated in Australia comprised of Australian citizens, and all the information about such ownership, control and ultimate beneficiaries should be included in the national land register and database.
Land ownership and management should be based on the principle of usufructuary rights, such that non-utilization or under-utilization of land and misutilization or degradation of land are grounds to lose the right of land ownership and management.
Similarly, as far as possible, large-scale entities that extract natural resources, key industries and infrastructure should be owned and controlled by public organisations or statutory authorities rather than by private individuals or corporations, and managed in the public interest.
As a general policy, raw materials should not be exported; only goods manufactured from the raw materials should be exported. For example, Australia exports coal and iron ore to China then imports Chinese steel. Australia should manufacture all its own steel and only export any surplus. (Australia, of course, should also phase out the use of coal as soon as possible.) So, we need to develop the capacity to process, refine and manufacture a wide range of products from our own natural resources.
