I understand that three or four of you intend to take the dizzying step of changing your vote to Labor leader Kevin Rubb via his local henchman, the CFMEU's Nigel Gould. I urge you to reconsider for the future of this wonderful nation, your children and grandkids.

The novice Mr Rubb is intent on rubbing out the very fabric of Australian society by reversing my vastly experienced Government's reforms of the workplace system.

No issue is more central to my Government's survival, and yours, than retention of these reforms.

It is only with wages kept in check that our great economic prosperity can continue. Wages will spiral upwards under a Rubb Left-Wing Union Government and the nation will be doomed.

Mines and ports will close, office buildings will empty, factories will grind to a halt for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.

The Coalition's dream of ubiquitous nuclear power stations will fade to black; the lights of the country will also dim, then go out.

Rubb-Union will unravel the GST; turn back the clock on tariff reforms; reintroduce collective bargaining, giving all workers a say in their conditions; and unravel unfair dismissal laws, bringing big business to its knees with the loss of at least 666,666 jobs (see appendix).

Wholesome Christian evangelism as espoused by my proteges, Mitchell candidate Alex Hawke and Louise Markus, MP for Greenway, will be threatened by the unholy propaganda of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky as a Rubb-Union Government injects religious factionalism into politics.

Thousands will lose their homes as interest rates soar to record levels.

Not only will children be overboard, whole families will be homeless.

Liberal Party research has put the price of petrol under Rubb Labor at $5.60 a litre. With farms socialised, milk will top $10 a carton, bread $6 a loaf, cigarettes $50 a packet and beer $20 a nip.

I implore right-thinking people: Do not jettison our reforms.

Do not seek risky independent foreign policies by disregarding sage American advice.

And do not desert the down-trodden Iraqi people who have contributed so much to Australia's wealth, health, cultural and educational wellbeing.

Sincerely, John Winston Howard

Next week: Kevin Rubb