We're not gunning for Minister McGauran, but it's always hard to stomach when politicians who are supposed to be upholding the highest standards in representing us in this wonderful democracy, show their true colors.
While we believe Australia's producers should feel badly done by in recent times by the Nats and Libs (Undemocratic MLA elections, 'letting-in' at risk USA / Brazilian meat, NLIS & LPA costs, NZ Fireblight, increased stock levies, native vegetation laws, ...) , when you read about the personal habits/self-interest culture of some of them, you can gain an insight into why they aren't focussed on helping others as much as they should be!
The McGauran brothers last year declared $1 million of expenditure on their Victorian hotel from poker machine revenue as "community benefit" spending but only $5000 has gone to genuinely charitable causes.Click here to read the whole story
What do you think Please leave a comment below.
Showing posts with label Livestock export AQIS meat standards Australian Beef Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Livestock export AQIS meat standards Australian Beef Agriculture. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Are Horse-Flue & Foot and Mouth Disease Related?
These diseases may differ medically, but to AQIS and the Government they should be treated no differently.
We have hundreds of horses 'down' with this disasterous flu but still while Rome is burning Nero fiddles on. i.e. Minister McGauran has agreed to let foot and mouth disease at risk meat into Australia from the US.
Isn't this a classic case of letting the horse bolt and then trying to re-stable it?!
You'd reckon McGauran et al, including AQIS, would want to learn as quickly as possible and shore-up our defences to prevent this sort of thing happening again to our precious livestock. And you'd think they'd be even more vigilant when it comes to our massive meat livestock market. We are 2nd only to Brazil in beef exports but are allowing meat at risk of foot and mouth into Australia from the US and Brazil. It will be a sad day if (when?) some exotic disease devestates our meat industry because some poilticians wanted to "Go All The Way With LBJ"!
What do you think?
(Please post a comment below).
We have hundreds of horses 'down' with this disasterous flu but still while Rome is burning Nero fiddles on. i.e. Minister McGauran has agreed to let foot and mouth disease at risk meat into Australia from the US.
Isn't this a classic case of letting the horse bolt and then trying to re-stable it?!
You'd reckon McGauran et al, including AQIS, would want to learn as quickly as possible and shore-up our defences to prevent this sort of thing happening again to our precious livestock. And you'd think they'd be even more vigilant when it comes to our massive meat livestock market. We are 2nd only to Brazil in beef exports but are allowing meat at risk of foot and mouth into Australia from the US and Brazil. It will be a sad day if (when?) some exotic disease devestates our meat industry because some poilticians wanted to "Go All The Way With LBJ"!
What do you think?
(Please post a comment below).
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Are Labelling Laws An Issue To Australian Farmers?
The ABA has called on Minister McGauran to enforce his Government’s Labelling Laws on US/Brazilian Beef Imports. And its Chairman Brad Bellinger has stated that, "Australia, with our clean image and the very costly NLIS is bringing in product that could be contaminated in Brazil or the USA on its way here..".
(Click here to view the ABA media release click to view article )
Is this something that irks Australia's farmers or is the ABA for some reason way off the mark?
Do you think that such action could potentially damage the way in which other markets such as Korea and Japan view our meat health standards and as a result our own product that we are exporting?
What is the MLA's opinion on this issue?
What do you think? (click on the 'comments' link down to the right to leave your feedback)
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