What's The Interest In Changed Rates?

Interest rates have gone up for the fourth time in 15 months because we're all doing so well, didn't you know!

Isn't your farm worth 3 times as much as it was 8 years ago? Houses are so the rest of us must be doing well too. Pity you can't eat equity and have to borrow for feed and fencing.

Aren't you benefiting from the miners making a huge whack out of sending-off sand from the sand-pit for other countries to value-add (I thought we would have learnt from the mistakes of Pig Iron Bob doing the same during WWII). The fact that we're buying it all back in white-goods, bikes, computers etc etc doesn't worry the miners though. They're only concerned with getting trained labour off our farms.
And the fact that we're borrowing at record levels to fund all this is OK according to Messers Howard &, Costello - they say we can afford it. (Remember the Debt Truck? it was something less than $300Billion but now it's more like $500Billion !)

Let's not forget our core business of food prices either. Apparently milk and meat are up which is great for our incomes isn't it. How much have you received of these?

Thank goodness Messers Anderson, Vaille & McGauran are sticking-up for the farmers, 'cos no-one else cares a hoot! What was that Mr. Vaille? Please don't speak while Mr. McGauran is requesting another safe seat. You wouldn't mind a job in London soon? Hang-on, we're still looking for a Board possie for Mr. Anderson. Isn't he the bloke we need to reward for setting-up MLA, NLIS and LPA. Perhaps Donnie McGaughie would like to move over and let another good old boy get his nose in the trough so Telstra can continue to ream his rural mates!

Interest rates aren't special. They're just another nail in the proverbial.

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Farming Biosecurity Risk!

Australian Beef Association (ABA) chairman, Brad Bellinger, has stated that Australia's quarantine processes are "hopeless" and are placing Australians at risk.

“They can’t even adhere to Australia ’s own Trade Practises Act rules on Country of Origin Labelling". "They are still turning a blind eye to 'Product of USA' beef that is from Brazil ('a foot and mouth' country - ed.) -making a mockery of the rules".

Mr. Bellinger said, “Under the Canberra Free Trade mantra, Bio Security has adopted an ‘anything goes’ approach. "They have opened the pork industry to imports from disease-afflicted countries, despite legal rulings against it. "They have exposed the banana, apple and now the beef industry to the same risks". "Their handling of citrus canker outbreak in the citrus orchards in Emerald, Qld, was a total disgrace".

Mr Bellinger said, “We congratulate our sister organisation R-CALF in the United States on achieving Country of Origin Labelling legislation for beef."
“Canberra has lost the plot completely and we can only hope that the Shadow Minister lives up to his pledge, should he be elected”. (Mr Bellinger applauded the announcement by Shadow Minister for Primary Industries, Senator O’Brien that, if elected, he will hold an inquiry into Australia ’s quarantine administration).

Should meat from Foot and mouth countries be allowed into Australia? Should Country of origin labelling be stringently policed?

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