tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61799902012-01-11T14:13:07.384+11:00Fair Go MateYou think Australia is the place of the fair go? Think again. Here's the evidence! Look at these stories of what's happening in your country.
List briefly your regional and rural issues news here . Suggest links. List the returns for your product on link site "What you get for all the effort "journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-62552990862119599112012-01-11T14:05:00.001+11:002012-01-11T14:06:50.288+11:00Farmers must be treated as family and NOT patronisedThese days nearly every poly from all parties sings from the same simple song sheet. The economic imperative of business led everything. They do this so constantly that they don't even notice their reason for existence is being undermined.
Oh for a poly who can identify with Katter ( you don't have to agree with everything he says ) and say so.
weak weak and bleak is the love for all things journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-15684788234670306552011-06-21T11:30:00.000+10:002011-06-21T11:30:33.000+10:00Don't talk at us, talk to usIf you wonder what really depresses rural people, its when people talk at them --not to them.
Lots of it about - my thinking friends in the bush have no friends - but they have a lot of people who will tell them how to run their farms . Fairgomate - we are not complete idiots !
The Greens and now Greenlabor can't understand why they are not taken seriously in rural areas but its really quite journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-4319173210566656122010-02-05T12:57:00.004+11:002010-02-05T13:54:26.916+11:00Tree tragicsjust when we thought Abbott was making some sense, he chants the old chant of the tragics - that spell that solves all our environmental problems. We know for every EXTRA tree in most of Australia there is less agriculture, but do those in the chamber ? Do they want to know ? How would they like it if their major asset was devalued by government edict ? Do they want to know that also there journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-25146427436333343532008-02-25T10:47:00.006+11:002008-02-25T11:16:54.788+11:00Free us please from grand Garnaut goobledegookGarnauts report :This thin piece of twaddle could have been written by high school students To quote In Australia, there is considerable potential for sequestering large amounts of carbonthrough changes in land and forest management and agricultural practices. It isimportant that incentives to realise this potential are in place as early as possible in thelife of the ETS. Full inclusion of Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-3610674708152675652007-10-15T21:35:00.000+10:002007-10-15T23:34:57.536+10:003500 cows go down a weekIf our polys really knew what they were doing, they would have predicted and prepared for the demolition of rural industries . Instead they run around pathetically with offers of help after the horse has bolted -- the cash cow killed .One of the reasons things are not getting any better ( drought is only hiding the reality) is that our wannabes often confuse technology with science . Even the Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-78389606837807393592007-08-06T12:34:00.000+10:002007-08-06T12:46:52.158+10:00Greasing the wheels of the environmentStory : The Tasmanian government has recently HAD to change env planning legislation to get things happening in the state ( Pulp Mill) ,Finally something as a big as a state ( cf poor old landowners ) gets to fel the harsh wind of environemnta studies that cost the earth and take as long to complete . How does the problem have to get before our polys do something about it ?Really finding out who Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1176158199321719962007-04-10T08:28:00.000+10:002007-04-10T08:36:39.330+10:00Government guaranteed investments pay wellFor some at least ( ABC 4 Corners on plantations this week)It only takes blind freddie a few seconds to work out that a poly driven investment is real winner for most of us who are quicker than they are with money they don't have . Rural people are rightly aggrieved at the feds and the states hamfisted blast into plantation territory ; political and environmental carelessness that continues to journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1164669905549056162006-11-28T10:18:00.000+11:002006-11-28T10:25:05.563+11:00AWB / Monopolies, Oligipolies or orderly sharemarkets?To the Representatives of the people, RE Convince us you really know what you are doing Of all the historic mistakes that Australian government will make in our generation, their innocence about level playing fields will feature amongst the most tragic in effect. Many of our leaders confuse big business with all business, when diversity of small business is the sensitive anchor of many aspects journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1140816243372387382006-02-25T07:58:00.000+11:002006-02-25T08:24:03.396+11:00Most of us like a bit of hearty debate, provided it's all out in the open. But when Labor beats the same old drum as the conservatives, we know we are in trouble. With the strength of our value adding cooperatives like SPC and Bonlac being eroded as quickly as cash in our wallets, it seesm to me the Shadow Minister for Agriculture Mr O 'Connor might do more than talk up business in Geelong (GA Modihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957736781781356141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1140607837437811082006-02-22T22:20:00.000+11:002006-02-23T22:28:41.850+11:00"Chinese manufactured milk is NOW being sold in our Supermarkets ( Safeways Gold 1 evaporated milk .... )Autralian SPC Ardmona has sold out to international Coca - Cola Amitil..... Have a look at the abundance of cheap tinned fruit from China on our supermarket shelves. Fruitgrowers days are numbered and inevitably we dairy farmers ...From Bill Brown of COlac ( in Geelong Advertiser 21st journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1139534470040944272006-02-10T12:15:00.000+11:002006-02-10T12:21:10.050+11:00FAIR - in name only . see previous posts .Nature is not black , its white . You must trust the system brothers and sisters. from CAFTA overseas The Time is Ripe for a Fair Trade Victory - Act Now! The Bush administration says it will bring the Peru Free Trade Agreement to Congress in the coming months, and is planning to sneak Colombia and Ecuador into the deal. Predictably, the deal is worsejourneymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1129605231320549562005-10-18T13:09:00.000+10:002005-10-18T13:13:51.326+10:00Well intentioned but not well informed AGAIN ! One wonders why so many rural industry bodies, like the Beef Council consistently act against the interests of their members and Australia. If it were not for the vigilence of Professor Weiss, government and these industry bodies would lower our quarantine and trade standards without a murmur.from M MenzelLittle Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1129603278569145512005-10-18T12:33:00.000+10:002005-10-18T12:41:18.576+10:00Govts AD CAMPAIGN on IR has a few CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS . no use talking employment figures when the BASIC WAGE issue is a key one to understanding the issues with couples, let alone FAMILIES .OK, so it will be good for us as a COMMUNITY and will generate good BEHAVOIUR - convince us then that its not quick fix or a coercion nightmaresee 30 DAYS told the story -showing on Channel 10 (AUST) Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1129116364019609062005-10-12T18:41:00.000+10:002005-10-31T11:34:18.866+11:00One rule for them . A higher rule for us ? Seeing someone else follow the same method to lower playing fields may justshake the feds love of competetion policy. Lower fields in parts of the world where they care even less about standards of review .I mean trish caswell has seen that it makes not big picture economic and ecological sense to allow other countries to exploit their resources in thejourneymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1126574227113416272005-09-13T11:15:00.000+10:002005-09-13T11:19:20.146+10:00The poms might have poor eyesight, but they deserved to win - just! What a great game , everybody!Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1126566754017926012005-09-13T09:08:00.000+10:002005-09-13T09:12:34.020+10:00Don't you just love the stuff that the new boys are doing in the Senate. Asking questions. It is no crime is it ? You wouldn't think so the way the silence has to be broken by them . Well done boys . For those that missed it, an excellent Background Briefing RN ABC on Barnaby last sunLittle Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1123821727218744092005-08-12T14:41:00.000+10:002005-08-12T14:42:07.223+10:00The Federal Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane has summoned car and parts makers unions and State Ministers to Melbourne on Friday to discuss the threat to thousands of jobs from low wage countries such as China.Hello, where is all the free trade talk now!Someone has woken up.The car industry has lost more than a thousand jobs in recent monthsLittle Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1123818394317892922005-08-12T13:29:00.000+10:002005-08-12T13:46:34.323+10:00Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing The church was in full voice when Barnaby walked through the door . How can any good thing come from northern Queensland!Time to have a good look at the facts Boys ---by those who chant business and flat earth economists to make themselves feel comfortable . What would a country person know??? The truth , from experience, about complex Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1120647035741107392005-07-06T20:40:00.000+10:002005-07-06T21:22:39.396+10:00Remove barriers to trade . Can it all be so simple? Lindsay tanner , Even George Bush and the Yes Men are joining the chorus ( that should be enough to shake the house, but it hasn't). How did we and our forefathers ignore it for so long .( theydidn't reality brought them home too) money makes money, trade makes growth . I know all these things but I prefer sustainability to cancer when it comesjourneymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1119492189123849022005-06-23T12:00:00.000+10:002005-06-23T12:03:09.126+10:00Asset sales .The National Party is keener than ever to go to auction!! Anyone allowed to mention asset stripping these days ? spud sales go to NZ. maybe the press failed to make the connection that NZ NOW own some of our value adding industries and are in a good position to "advertize" just how few cents for a piece of spud /milk some folks now have to pay . the economy is booming so they tell usjourneymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1119442797103610342005-06-22T22:19:00.000+10:002005-06-22T22:19:57.106+10:00What the party politicians are doing to Australia's farming families is an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE... what the party politicians are doing to the Emerald citrus growing farming families is a NATIONAL DISGRACE! Please show that you care... Respectfully Selwyn * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Selwyn JohnstonLittle Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1119440280029935232005-06-22T21:22:00.000+10:002005-06-22T22:13:34.226+10:00Tasmanian farmers want more for their produce --- News today Unfortunately for us, when we finally say enough is enough, its too much for the audience . The public can't quite get what the fuss is about . "Don't you accept that the market rules supreme" . Sorry we don't . Economic and ecology is a bit more complex than figures on a ledger . Otherwise why tax people to improve the environment? Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1118017885670842652005-06-06T10:28:00.000+10:002005-06-06T10:31:25.676+10:00The Canberra grants love in - its all working so wonderfully well, except we are screwing the country and its people >Emergency summit for vegetable growers11:29 AEST Sat Jun 4 2005AAPAustralia's peak vegetable growers body will hold an emergency summit this month as the national industry reaches crisis point.AUSVEG, which represents 4,300 vegetable growers, said decisive action was needed to Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1116371980890176002005-05-18T09:08:00.000+10:002005-05-18T09:19:40.896+10:00And now while we have managed to sell the sheep and keep the soil and the pasture potential, the wentworth group play into the hands of the quick fix merchants and talk up change . wher do the y want the new goiter line ( it was Ok then it is still right) perhaps they want it at bendigo or melbourne or on the outside wallsof their hallowed halls . speak up or help out . Wentworth group could at Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1116371116973417792005-05-18T09:02:00.000+10:002005-05-18T09:07:53.913+10:00For another misapplication of competition theory and its effect on exploiting our own people ,look at the latest evidence from India mexico , canada on how they are killing their own people with the cruel kindness of it . mark vaile is a kind man but maybe his heart is where head should be - not chanting the rich and comfortable's road to success. After all rural people have always worked for journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1101814487902591922004-11-30T22:26:00.000+11:002004-11-30T22:41:40.860+11:00Free trade agreement signed today ASEAN --- The ease with which Australia's leaders sign legal agreements, will, in historical terms be seen as symbolic of our INNOCENCE and the fanatical faiths of so many wannabes in parliament. Sure it has benefits but the market can deal with them without our weighing down good relationships with pacts. Presumably this heavy hammer will crush the new growth journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1097806310228824702004-10-15T13:10:00.000+10:002004-10-15T12:11:50.226+10:00Labors failure at last election - seriously out of touch
If there is one thing the left needs to learn from Labors disasterous polling on Saturday, its the predictable short term gain of carelessly following of the ever shifting greens and social reform agendas of the paid left :
If you stand with the superficial and reactionary , you will soon lose your credibility- your right to govern will Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1095248019982582502004-09-15T21:22:00.000+10:002004-09-15T21:33:39.983+10:00Independant candidates ; Are they the answer?. While the national party continues to swallow the shallow rhetoric of big business, practical rural economists seem to have little choice but to go indepenedant - but will it just wear them out too-- like another round of infantry .The cities have the money to keep going , our fighting reserves are running out and our children are depressed by the Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1091154101066554002004-07-30T12:19:00.000+10:002004-07-30T12:21:41.066+10:00Big business knows best . Watch Four Corners on monday night for the rest ! By the way what do politicians know esp now they have yes men all around them ! journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1090292559218293942004-07-20T13:00:00.000+10:002004-07-20T13:23:52.273+10:00Family Farms, Food Security AND Fast fixes BY AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT . CHECK THE FACTS OUT HERE! http://www.quixote.org/quest/advocacy/fair_trade_cafta_main.html
After ten years under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a
handful of factory farms and agribusiness corporations have reaped large
profits and increased market shares. Meanwhile, millions of independent
farmers in journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1089942184037097962004-07-16T11:40:00.000+10:002004-07-16T12:03:26.650+10:00On the Innate goodness of man ? Send a note to Mark Vaille and John Anderson "Do you really believe in all this fairyland stuff abour fair and agreement going together " . You must live on an island and listen to sweet talk by lawyers - they love agreements and know a lot about how laws make things fair . "
I presume you have read about the detailed passage of freetrade agreements in European journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1089941180917987062004-07-16T11:14:00.000+10:002004-07-16T11:26:20.916+10:00Golden Circle At RISK Please buy - owned by 700 producers and employing 1700 people regionally facing a loss of $31 million . Freetrade is not helping . Consumers have the power but Australians may lose yet another icon in six months - act now . From sounds serious
journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1083553348847996412004-05-03T13:02:00.000+10:002004-07-16T12:12:34.153+10:00Just how out of touch can Canberra get?
In ecological terms, ( the olde frog and water story ) death to indutry will happen - even if the water is just warm right now .
if you heat the water up with ONLY one important imperative like the competition imperative, you don't even know your killing people when everyone adjusts to the nice warmth of something held so simply in isolation? Ecological journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1080531791242377432004-03-29T13:43:00.000+10:002004-03-29T13:46:44.670+10:00 Who are we? Salt of the earth or the whipping boys?
We manage something extremely complex and sensitive: we generally get paid a pittance to do so and have to do it well year after year , despite the real risk of personal loss ; All hell can break loose when some camera or untrained eye thinks we have failed to look after the delicate diversity of ecosystems we manage. And once the city has Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-107766348079304882004-02-25T09:58:00.000+11:002004-02-25T10:00:48.483+11:00So what did we learn about FTA after all the talk in last few weeks - that US think its great but we aren't sure-the reality is that FT doesn't exist - a pleasant sounding pipedream for desperate polys who live on islands and like simple solutions.
For some more content http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1042772.htm
journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1076503768505057982004-02-11T23:49:00.000+11:002004-02-11T23:51:57.826+11:00On sugar In America the farmer gets a subsidy of $640 a tonne.
All our farmers get is the world selling price of $200 a tonne.
It costs them more than that to produce the sugar. (from AJones 2gb 11th feb )
? so what do you pay in the supermarket? .20 a kilo or 50% markup 40 cents a kilo?
journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1075247873359693992004-01-28T10:57:00.000+11:002004-01-28T11:00:02.576+11:00Jensen has written well. Newsweekly 10th jan journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1075073043094294822004-01-26T10:24:00.000+11:002004-01-26T10:42:09.200+11:00Living in a dream?
“Look mate – it’s not working and it hasn't worked and it won't ever work . The Honorable Truss is just another well intentioned high priest in a long line of cringing innocent vision impaired ministers who tramp overseas hoping for a miracle. Cringeing? They continue to chant greed’s favorite word “competition” in the hope that it will please someone higher up. The idol might journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1070882242733291942003-12-08T22:17:00.000+11:002003-12-08T22:17:34.513+11:00There is a CD out with a few good stories of what it takes to succeed in Agriculture in Australia- Ask Mreforce journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179990.post-1070879072873432352003-12-08T21:24:00.000+11:002003-12-08T21:24:44.553+11:00How much does the producer get for a kilogram of sugar by the way ? journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com