Robert Wass Wallaroy Warren. NSW 2824
Sunday, 28 October 2007
Congratulations to QCL on the excellent article in a Comment by Bill Bray, president of Cattle Council of Australia (QCL 25/10/2007 page 10).
Mr Bray gives a rare personal insight into issues that plague his mind whilst sitting in his vehicle looking out the window. The issue, that CCA adopts a proud nationalistic and Australia Inc approach, which is the concept of Vertical Integration whereby the large and powerful swallow up the small and powerless, as foreshadowed 10 years ago, when the industry was restructured.
The concept is devoid of any conscience as it removes the very idea of Free Will and the now outdated concept and values of free enterprise. The very idea that farmers are independent business men and women that have independent management plans and expertise are bitter pills that CCA and Mr Bray refuse to swallow and are doing their best to discourage.
The Australia Inc approach has left a trail of destruction unrivaled in Australia’s short history, as documented by State Corporate Governments that have adopted this same approach that has led to corruption, nepotism, cronyism, an overload of bureaucrats and unaccountable committees, all achieved through the misuse of unlimited powers.
The end result being the complete embodiment of a totalitarian state and a classic case of history repeating itself. Mr Bray wonders what the industry will be when our kids grow up and what will have changed in the way we produce cattle and manage our operations.
The answer to this is 10 years old, so there is no need to ask the kids, and goes something like this, Cattle managed only with the approval of MLA, Cattle traded only with the approval of MLA, Cattle bred only with the approval of MLA, and Operating and staying in business only with the approval of MLA.
The Australia Inc approach demands this system for the Cattle industry and, Mr Bray knows this because CCA helped set it up 10 years ago.Mr Bray also wonders what sort of cattle we will all run. Again, there is no need to ask the kids for the answer to this conundrum.
The answers either being ‘None’ as cattlemen sell off their herds after finally getting tired of the Australia Inc approach and enforced compliance or None because the Australia Inc approach has sent all cattle businesses broke through industry over regulation.
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