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ATTACHMENT TO PETITION

ALAN BAWDEN
Past Chairman, Qld Associated Cattlemen's Co-Operative Ltd 
(Liquidated)
P.O. Box 1361, Beenleigh  Qld  4207	26th January, 1996,  
Australia Day


Attached is a petition I hope will be supported by the 
Australian public.  Only persons on the Electoral Role are 
eligible to sign.  Signatures to be originals not photocopied 
or faxed.  On completion please send it to me at the above 
address.


Quote from Press Release of Bill Hayden  MHR

"The Prime Minister and the Federal Attorney-General have been 
asked to investigate the actions of some oil companies in 
Queensland in refusing to supply petrol to the Queensland 
Cattlemen's Co-Op Ltd...	... Mr Hayden said that he was 
alarmed at the apparent absolute powers to regulate the supply 
side of the motor spirit market available to the oil companies. 
 He went on to claim that because Mr Bawden's organisation 
sought to sell petrol to consumers several cents cheaper than 
the  ruling price, not only did the oil companies apply 
coercion by withdrawing supplies to his organisation, but they 
also threatened similar retaliatory action against any petrol 
agent who supplied Mr Bawden's organisation.  Such behaviour on 
the part of these giant organisations, part of the 
international oil cartel, makes any suggestion that petroleum 
products are supplied under a system of free enterprise a 
laughable myth.  Mr Hayden said that there ought to be a public 
inquiry into the way in which Oil companies operated in 
Australia, regulating the market in a manner designed to 
exploit maximum profit from the motorist.  He claimed because 
of international cartel arrangements there was no competition 
between oil companies in Australia, and prices for landed 
petroleum products were struck at an artificially high level to 
provide maximum profit for the international company.  At the 
same time these companies enjoyed generous taxation provisions 
in countries of primary supply which added even more handsomely 
to their profits.  in the meantime, the Australian motorist is 
being exploited and independent entrepreneurs such as Mr 
Bawden, who try to make a reasonable profit and at the same 
time give a better deal to the consumers are ruthlessly 
eliminated from the market".


Please phone in to all talk back shows everywhere asking for 
support for the petition.
Please photocopy the unsigned petition for your fellow 
motorists in your area for them to sign and return
Please E-mail the petition to Rural, Sporting, Businesses and 
any other Associations in your State.

Thank you for your support

Kind regards,




Alan Bawden

Note:
By law this petition can only contain original signatures.  
Faxed and photocopied signatures are not accepted.  Only text 
below the "cut" line is required.  It is recommended the 
petition is printed in a fixed pitch font such as Courier 10.


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                              PETITION

TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT:

This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the 
attention of the House to the past conduct of the then Trade 
Practices Commission in Queensland, where the oil companies and 
others, by their actions, led to the ruthless destruction of 
approximately 700 Rural Co-Operatives in Queensland.  This was 
brought about by blatantly refusing lawful and guaranteed 
supply of petrol to the three Associated Motorist's 
Co-Operative Ltd. service stations in Brisbane, as shown to the 
public on ABC-TV and news media in Brisbane.

The actions of the Trade Practices Commission laying down and 
rolling over for the benefit of the oil companies brought a 
feeling of disgust from all Primary Industries throughout 
Australia. I had personally borrowed approximately $40,000 from 
Primary Producers to call world-wide tenders for petrol (quoted 
at nine point three US cents per US gallon F.O.B. Taiwan).  In 
the proceedings that followed I was blacklisted for selling 
goods to our 700 co-operatives at very low prices which reduced 
the cost of production on Primary Producers properties by 
approximately 20%, the greatest asset they had gained in this 
century.  Unable to obtain employment I went to New Zealand 
where I received further victimization.  After living there for 
13 years I was illegally refused the age pension and deported 
back to Australia and disposessed of my house in New Zealand on 
which I have two mortgages of $17,000 total.

The New Zealand people can have my house and possessions in 
return for a guarantee that the victimization will cease and I 
will have not further liability to them.  I am a 74 year old 
Australian-born aged pensioner and I have recently had a heart 
attack and a stroke.  I would like this matter finalised in my 
short time left so that my wife does not have this burden after 
I have gone.

Alan Bawden Past Chairman Qld Associated Cattlemen's Co-Op Ltd. 
(Liquidated) Beenleigh Qld  P.O. Box 1361.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to call for a 
Federal Royal Commission into this action by the then Trade 
Practices Commission.

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