Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:40:59 +1000
From: [Address removed] (Gosta Lynga)
To: Dave Keenan [Address removed]

Dear Dave,

A couple of months ago you wrote to me at the 
Australian Greens Pegasus account regarding the 
establishment of a peace trust fund. This resulted in a 
proposal to amend our policy documents on Peace and 
Security, and Tax and Revenue. The clauses were 
ratified at our recent Annual Conference and the texts 
appear below.

The fact that we have it in our policies means that we 
are going to work politically for the idea and will be 
able to obtain a change whenever we have enough clout. 
Unfortunately, this does not seem so as yet, but we are 
there for the long haul.

Let me thank you for your pioneering efforts in this 
respect and wish you all the best in your fight against 
the ATO.

Gosta Lynga
secretary
Australian Greens
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Amendment clauses:

Peace and Security

Principles

The Australian Greens are committed to

protecting the rights of conscientious objectors not to 
participate in war as members of the military and not to 
contribute to the war industry and war preparation 
through their taxes; and

establishing a Peace Trust Fund into which should be 
paid those taxes of conscientious objectors that 
otherwise would support the war budget.

Tax and Revenue

Peace Trust Fund

As detailed in the policy document on Peace and 
Security the Australian Greens maintain that a 
conscientious objector should not have to pay tax that is 
to be used for a war effort or for the preparation for war. 
That part of the objector’s tax should instead be used in 
a Peace Trust Fund to promote peace efforts by non-
violent means.