Matthew Sherry Australia United Party

The United Australia Party’s Matthew Sherry has no doubt what the country needs.

The Party’s catch-phrase for the election “Put Australia First” sums up what he believes is how voters should make their choices.

Mr Sherry, of Foster, is having his second attempt at winning a Federal seat having unsuccessfully contested McMillan for the then Palmer United Party in 2013.

He says all of the party’s policies are premised on what’s best for Australia, Australian people and Australian jobs.

A central plank to that platform is getting electricity costs down that Mr Sherry claims are “huge compared to our competitors such as Japan, China and India” and can be blamed on Australian governments selling off

electricity systems to foreign interests.

“We are still paying exorbitant interest rates on the money borrowed to pay those foreign companies to upgrade the electricity infrastructure,” he said.

Mr Sherry is also calling on something to be done about “trillions of dollars” Australians have in their superannuation funds being “progressively syphoned off” into overseas investments, denying Australia the flow on benefits of money spent locally on goods and services and attracting GST revenue.

He said the United Australia Party would also help, what he termed, the strugglers and younger generations.

A key policy towards that would be to make tax deductible the first $10,000 in interest paid each year on housing loans.

“The government might lose some money from one hand but get it back in the other because money would flow on to the building

industry and people would have more money in their pockets to spend to boost the economy”.

Mr Sherry said zonal taxation where people working in regions paid 20 per cent loss tax than the general rates would encourage decentralisation and development to help overcome the increasing strain on housing, infrastructure and population in the cities.

He says Australia should also be a bit more selective with its foreign aid.

“It’s okay to help out to assist create calm in the region,” according to Mr Sherry, but he draws the line at suggestions that Australia help pay to restore the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris recently severely damaged by fire.

Mr Sherry said his campaigning so far had indicated there are many undecided voters.

They might be unhappy with the major parties and think they don’t have other options, but they do, he said.