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Dec

8

Australia’s Copenhagen Commitment Shaken By Hunger Striking ‘Victim of Global Warming”

Australian farmer Peter Spencer is in the 16th day of a hunger strike. He is sitting on a 2 metre platform high up on a 300 foot pole on his farm.

Australia’s King of Talk back radio Alan Jones interview Peter by mobile phone this morning. Click the image to go to the 2GB site and listen to this riveting interview.

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Extracts from the interview:

Alan Jones: This man Peter Spencer is in the 14th day of a hunger strike to bring attention to his plight. He say’s – quote – the Government can compensate the carbon polluters – but not the victims of climate change like me.

Alan Jones: Perter Good morning.

Peter Spencer - Good morning

AJ – You’re up the pole with a mobile phone.

PS – I want to make a comment. This is not about Peter Spencer. This is about the 87.5 million tonnes (of CO2) which is the entire commitment that Rudd (Australian prime Minister Kevin Rudd) is going Copenhagen which is all the abatement they have to meet the Kyoto international treaty. The entire amount was met by these farms locked up across Australia. He’s go no other abatement to go with.

AJ – So the other way (to cut emissions) is to prevent you clearing your land so that trees retain the carbon?

AJ – The first thing is the Federal Government said that you can’t clear your land and that’s certainly true in Queensland and everywhere else, because by keeping the trees and making your land unviable for agriculture and everything else – then you are going to lock up the carbon.

Now am I right in saying there is something like 109 million hectares of Australian families private property under these sorts of management laws.

PS – Alan you have it spot on.

AJ – Lets go to the next step. And so by taking that land the Government has reduced our carbon emissions by 22%, which has enabled Australia to met it’s Kyoto Treaty obligations.

PS – That’s correct. It dropped from 130% to 108% and the Australian farmers paid the entire tab.

AJ – So basically the effected farming families have paid for all the cost of mitigating carbon dioxide emissions and thtas the only reason why Prime Minister Rudd can go to Copenhagen saying Australia has met its Kyoto targets.

AJ – So by reducing broad scale land clearing, there, Queensland and everywhere else since 1990, farmers have effectively offset what you call substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from other sectors, namely energy.

So without all of this Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions would be 30% above 1990 levels rather than where they are today and the farmers have been responsible for virtually the entire share of the nations greenhouse gas emissions reductions

PS- Exactly

AJ – So those efforts worth Billions of dollars have not been financially rewarded by the government.

PS – Their farms have been devastated. All of this has to be corrected.

AJ – So the levels of emissions reduced effectively by farmers is equal to eliminating the total annual emissions of NZ or Ireland.

AJ - Australia has been able to meet its international treaty obligations, pretending its a civilized and progressive and reformist state., but in the process has stole the citizens property, breaking even I supposed our most basic human rights.

Peter King: Yes and of course it has not been done in an obvious way and i think that’s why very few people other than yourself and others will recognize this problem. it all derives from article 3 in the Kyoto Protocol – a special dispensation to Australia.

AJ – Lets go back to Peter (Spencer). What exactly are you wanting. I know Peter King your lawyer is going to take this matter to the high court, but what are you wanting?

PS – First of all it’s day 16 of my hunger strike. We have been trying to get to court now – we’ve been in the high court a number of times trying to get heard and what they constantly do – they move to strike us out – so we can never present our evidence. Poor peter (King) has been trying now for almost 2 years, trying to get the case presented and hear the evidence – all the court does is look to see if we should be struck out or not.

AJ – So have you not eaten in for 16 days?

PS – No

AJ – Unbelievable. You say to Kevin Rudd in your letter, you say, Peter has written to Kevin Rudd – a long letter in part it says

As you prepare for Copenhagen think of us the Australians who paid the entire carbon tab while you rewarded the polluters, the power generators and the coal industries and lied to the people about our role. Please do not lie in Copenhagen. Tell the world how you achieved your targets and the fact that you stole your achievement. I beg you to show the world this submission and the attachments and see if they applaud you as the white knight of global warming. I’ll be placing it on the web and in the hands of the global media.

AJ – Now Peter, I must before i go, implore you. To say look, let the rest of us fight this battle for you through the media, through the public, through public opinion, we don’t want you to be sacrificed in the battle. Please think about coming down from that 300 foot pole that you are up. Give yourself a good feed, get the energy together so that you can continue to mount this case and I’m sure now the nation at large will be aware of the problem.I think you should take the advise of Peter (King), come down from the pole and we’ll start again.

PS - Alan can I just say something to you?

AJ – Yes

PS – Thank you very much. I’m not coming down, I’m not coming down until he (PM Kevin Rudd) to the terms that I gave him. He can dig a hole and bury me if he wants to. These Australian farmers have to be fixed.

Click here to visit and join Peter Spencers Hunger Strike Support group on the agmates Community network

Click here to visit and join Peter Spencers Hunger Strike Support group on the agmates Community network

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Oct

13

Movie Premier Puts Heat On Liberals Ahead of ETS Vote

This Sunday, 18 October, thousands of Australians will participate in a world-record breaking international premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria.

Not Evil Just Wrong, a feature length documentary, shreds the outlandish claims made by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and shows how extreme environmentalism damages the lives of the most vulnerable. The film explores the science of global warming and compares the current “crisis” of global warming to other supposed crises that mankind has faced in recent memory.

The international premiere falls just one day before the Liberal partyroom meets to determine its position on the Kevin Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme. The film is expected to feature heavily in the debate. Hundreds of private and public screenings have been organised by community groups and concerned citizens in every state and territory in Australia. A full list of public screenings in Australia may be found Here

“This film premieres right when Australia needs it most,” states Ann McElhinney, codirector of the film. “Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wants to impose a crippling tax on every Australian household. This film will reveal to Australians for the first time the true cost of this radical environmentalism and generate a real debate.”

The draconian measures that must be undertaken not only in Australia, but around the world, in order to have a measurable impact on CO2 emissions will have harmful impacts on all humanity, and will disproportionately affect those who can least afford it. In the same way as the banning of DDT based on discredited science led to the deaths of millions from malaria, so too will climate change hysteria lead to suffering for the world’s poor.

“This is the film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see,” says McElhinney. “It is not a mainstream Hollywood documentary. It features real people, and the real impact on their lives. We are going to distribute it the same way we shot the film – premiering it all across the world on DVD on individual TV sets in the homes of real people and to community groups.”

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Oct

12

BBC News Flash for Kevin Rudd & Penny Wong

Over the last decade like the Australian ABC the UK BBC has been chief amongst media spreading the global warming hysteria. Finally after a decade of global cooling even the mighty BBC has relented.

From BBC online:

What happened to global warming?

“This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true.

For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Writes the BBC’s Climate correspondent Paul Hudson.

Don’t you just love the surprised innocence in Paul’s tone, completely blindsided by this news he is. Now Paul is not your average BBC news journo, he is THE BBC Climate Correspondent breaking this amazing news to the world.

After going through a range of options as to what is really driving the climate, the Sun, World ocean temperatures, Paul comes to the stunning conclusion:

“One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.”

How long before Australia’s own National Broadcaster the ABC starts to report the facts instead of the hype?

Indeed how long before our own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister (the minister for the natural) Penny Wong, admit the truth to the Australian people,

“the science on climate change is anything but settled”.

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Oct

1

Media and Bob Carter Roma Meeting

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I was contacted by ABC Four Corners researcher Anne Connolly this morning. Four Corners will be attending and filming the Professor Bob Carter Climate Change meeting organized by Agmates in conjunction with Property Rights Australia and The Australian Climate Science Coalition.

The Four Corners crew will be there on the day following Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce and will be attending the campdraft with him and then the Bob Carter Climate Change talks that night.

All indications are that their will a large roll up to the meeting. If you’d like to ensure that you have seats for the meeting please click here and use the RSVP function to show if you will be attending or not attending. If you are not attending please use comments section at the bottom to leave a message of support or otherwise. Its important if you cannot be there on the night that you have your say.

In the the lead up to the resumption of Parliament and second vote on the Rudd Governments Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme the three meeting at Rockhampton, Roma and Clermont are shaping up as events of national significance. They are the most significant and substantial community insipired Climate Change meeeting in Australia between now and the crucial vote.

So take your place in the historic meetings. Be sure to secure your seat at the closest meeting and bring a friend. You can play your part in spreading the word through the Australian community by emailing this onto each and every person on your email contact list.

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Sep

30

Professor Bob Carter Talks To Rural Queenslanders.

Agmates in Conjunction with Property Rights Australia and The Australian Climate Science Coalition is bringing Professor Bob Carter to three regional Queensland centres to explain why he believes the Rudd Governments carbon Pollution reduction Scheme is the “Worst Act of Parliament Since Federation”.

The evenings with Professor Carter are at:

Tuesday 6th October – Rockhampton Leagues Club Corner of Cambridge & George Street Rockhampton – 7pm to 9.30pm.

Friday 9th October – Jubilee Hall,TAFE College, 2-28 Timbury Street, Roma – 7.30 – 9.30pm. * Senator Barnaby Joyce will there and will address this meeting.

Saturday 10th October - Clermont Blair Athol Community Hall, Collins Street off Ruby Vale Road, Clermont – 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

In an email to all members of his Group site Senator Barnaby Joyce said:

Barnaby-Group-site-100“Hi Agmates you might have seen a note from Cate Stuart about the series of meetings being planned for Rockhampton, Roma and Clermont with Professor BobCarter from James Cook University. Professor Carter will be addressing the Climate Change Debate and I would urge you all to try and get along to one of the meetings.

I can’t stress enough just how important this is. I will be attending the meeting at Roma and would love to see you all there, it’s alsoa chance for me to catch up with you personally to discuss any other pressing issues as we continue to take the fight up to the Rudd Governmentprior to the next election.”

If you live near one of those centres, not only make an effort to get to the meeting but ring your neighbours and friends and get them to come along with you.

See here for more details about meetings

About Bob Carter:

Bob Carter pictured during a recent presentation to all parliamentarians in Canberra. Professor carter was there at the request of Independent Senator Steve Fielding.

Bob Carter pictured during a recent presentation to MP's ans Senators in Canberra. Professor Carter was there at the request of Independent Senator Steve Fielding.

Professor Bob Carter’s talk will explain the basic elements of the science behind the hypothesis of dangerous global warming caused by human carbon dioxide emissions, address the causes of the political socio-pathology represented by the CPRS bill, and suggest a cost-effective, hazard-reduction way forward.

Bob Carter has acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and N.Z. parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm. He was also a primary science witness in the U.K. High Court case of Dimmock v. H.M.’s Secretary of State for Education, the 2007 judgement from which identified nine major scientific errors in Mr Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth”.

His talk will provide a balanced summary of the current state of knowledge regarding whether dangerous global warming is being caused by human carbon dioxide emissions. All persons who are concerned about the need for implementation of aggressive emissions trading measures, such as have already been passed in European countries and are currently being contemplated in USA, New Zealand and Australia, will benefit from attending his lecture. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and engage in discussion.

Public discussion of whether emissions trading will have any effect on future climate, the impact that it will have on living costs for the average Australian, and how damaging it will be to the national economy is dominated by propaganda from extremely vociferous, well funded and self-interested organisations.

For a carbon dioxide tax level of $20/tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, the average Australian family will have direct extra costs of ~$2000/year levied against them, plus an unknowable sum of extra indirect costs. In return, computer modelling suggests that there might be a reduction in global temperature by the year 2100 of one-ten thousandth of a degree Celsius; in other words, no measurable effect upon climate will result.

If you’d like more information or volunteer you help on the night or to secure your seats call me on 0428 966819 .

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Jul

29

Poll Shows 70% of Coalition Voters Want Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Delayed

The Newspoll survey released in today’s Australian newspaper reveals to a massive 70% of Coalition voters oppose want the Liberal / National party to reject Kevin Rudds Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme when it comes before the Senate in two weeks time.

The Newspoll survey asked:

Which one of the following comes closest to your view about the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme?

Percentage Support
Total Labor Coalition
Australia should introduce the CPRS only after learning what other countries commit to at the Copenhagen Climate conference in December this year 45% 37% 58%
Australia should not introduce the Carbon Pollution reduction Scheme at All 8% 7% 12%
Total who believe the CPRS should not be passed before Copenhagen or at all 53% 44% 70%
Australia should introduce the CPRS now and not wait for the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December this year. 41% 51% 21%
Uncommitted. 6% 5% 3%

Today’s Newspoll result is the  death knell for Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.   From Todays Australian:

“Mr Turnbull was openly attacked by outspoken veteran backbencher Wilson Tuckey and was yesterday facing further internal revolt when he was accused of putting political expediency ahead of the national interest by supporting Labor’s emissions trading scheme.”

Liberal MP’s are as outraged at Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott’s politically expedient back flip on the ETS as I was in this article posted just days ago:

“The tragedy for rural & regional Australians and blue collar workers is that Abbott and Turnbull are actually terrified not of the coalition losing the election, which is inevitable no mater when its held in this current term, but of themselves losing their inner Sydney ‘doctors wives’ dominated seats of Warrinngah (Abbott) and Wentworth (Turnbull).

Stuff the lives and jobs of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians, they have to be re-elected. Its a sad indictment on them as men.”

Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of the Coalition is untenable – more from the Australian.

“The latest outbreak of dissent came just as public opinion turns against Australia taking a world lead on climate change.

Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi, already sacked by Mr Turnbull for speaking out, said the party would suffer for the Opposition Leader’s actions in preparing to pass Labor’s ETS before Copenhagen. “The political price of supporting something you publicly acknowledge is bad for every family, every community and the country, for short-term expediency is likely to be very high. Moreover, it is payable in the most prized of political capital — credibility,” Senator Bernardi said in a newsletter to colleagues. Senator Bernardi told The Australian he believed changes on the support for an ETS would have a big impact on the Liberal Party.”

As far as Coalition supporters are concerned both Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal Leader and passing the ETS legislation in the Senate are unacceptable.

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Jun

29

Barnaby Joyce on the ETS, the United States and Australia

Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Barnaby Joyce writes:

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Mr Rudd is today lauding the vote in the United States known as the American Clean Energy Act (otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey Bill) as the indelible truth and righteousness of his position.

So let’s have a close look at what actually happened with this vote.

More than 200 Democrats voted for it and 44 four voted against it.

In Australian parlance those 44 would be describes as ‘crossing the floor’, eight Republicans voted for it, likewise crossing the floor, in the other direction and 168 voted against.

The vote got through on a razors edge of 219 to 212.

Is Mr Rudd therefore endorsing the Democratic principal so well demonstrated in this vote that if you don’t believe in something you don’t vote for it?

Is Mr Rudd brave enough, if he truly believes in this principal and truly believes this global warming issue, to accord the people in his own party, who don’t believe in the Combet-Wong-Rudd Bill, to not vote for it on the premise that those on the other side of Parliament, who do believe in it, that they can.

Is Mr Rudd willing to have the Democratic principal break out in the way people vote or does he want the totalitarian dictate of what I say the Labor party must do and not only the Labor party but everybody else in the Parliament as well?

Don’t laud an American position if you don’t want to emulate the principals that brought it about.

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Jun

12

Australian Government Climate Adviser Wants Beef & Dairy Herds Gone In 2 Years

steve-501Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong have repeatedly told us that they are pressing ahead with their Emissions Trading Scheme based on what the science is telling them on Climate Change.

Agriculture minister Tony Burke when presented with ABARE figures on the cost to farmers of an Emissions trading Scheme maintains that farmers will adapt.

So what is it that Minister Burke knows that nobody else seems to. Perhaps its the advise he’s getting from the scientists?

Professor Barry Brook,  Climate Scientist from Adelaide University is a key scientiist advising the government on Climate Change. Just watch Professor Brook explain to the Supreme Master TV vegetarian viewers how Livestock Methane Emissions are a greater threat to Global warming than all the coal powered fire stations in Australia put together.

He believes Australia can phase out cattle production completely in just the next couple of years. Is that what Tony Burke has up his sleeve for livestock producers? Is his idea of adapting, raising Kangaroos instead of beef and perhaps its growing trees for Carbon?

If he is listening to Professor Brook farmers future sure as hell won’t be raising beef or dairy cattle. Watch the video and you’ll be as horrified as I was.

The video may take a little while to load, but stick with it.

(Thanks to Agmate JeffT)

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Update:

Contact details for the good professor Barry Brook.

Work Phone – 08 83033745 – Mobile 0420 958400 – Email barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au

Thanks to South Australian Agmate Richard.

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Jun

12

The World Wildlife Fund and Why Livestock Producers Should Be Worried

Agmates member JeffT writes:

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jefft-avatar-100I was very interested to read that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is now campaigning to accredit beef producers in the major beef producing countries. (Agmates 10th June, Foxes in Charge of the Hen House)

Beef producers in those countries should be aware of who they are dealing with here.

World Wildlife Fund is the largest conservation organization in the world. WWF works in 100 countries on more than 2,000 conservation programs. WWF has 1.2 million members in the United States and nearly 5 million supporters worldwide and employs over 4,000 staff.

Financial information  2006:

Revenue $162,536,877.00 – Expenses $130,811,748.00 – Net assets $221,290,334.00

Yes they are huge, well resourced and extremely well funded. Anyone who takes WFF lightly is very foolish.

History.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was formed, Sept. 11, 1961 (another bloody 9/11 coincidence?) in Morges, Switzerland by Sir Julian Huxley.

Julian Huxley, was also the British Eugenics Society president from 1954-1962.

[E]ven though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable. –Julian Huxley

The radical eugenics policy Huxley hoped would become thinkable was -

Nazi abuses, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of “undesired” population groups.

WWF’s first president was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands 1962-1976.

He was forced to resign in late 1976 as a result of the Lockheed Scandal.

Scandal rocked the Royal Family in 1976 when it was revealed that Prince Bernhard had accepted a US$1.1 million bribe from U.S. aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Corporation to influence the Dutch government’s purchase of fighter aircraft.

Later it was also revealed:

In 1988, Prince Bernhard and Princess Juliana sold two paintings from their personal collection to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. The paintings sold for GBP700 000, which was deposited in a Swiss WWF bank account. In 1989, however, Charles de Haes, director-general of the WWF, transferred GBP500 000 back to Bernhard, for what De Haes called a private project. In 1991, newspapers reported what this private project was: Prince Bernhard had hired mercenaries – mostly British – to fight against poachers in nature reserves.

In 1995, Nelson Mandela called upon the Kumleben Commission to investigate, among other things, the role of the WWF in apartheid South Africa. In the report that followed, it was suggested that mercenaries from Project Lock had planned assassinations of ANC members and that mercenaries had been running training camps in the wildlife reserves, training fighters from the anti-communist groups UNITA and Renamo.

He was succeeded in 1976 by John Loudon till 1981. Loudon was the  former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, and chairman of Shell Oil Co.

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh served as president from 1981 to 1996.

Prince Philip emerges in a television interview this week as the model royal “eco-warrior” who believes overpopulation has contributed to the pressures on the world and that anyone who believes in God should go green.

The duke hints that curbing family sizes may be the best means of keeping the soaring cost of staple food products, such as bread and rice, in check.

WWF Associations

The WWF office in Washington , D.C. adjoined the Conservation Foundation, whose new president in 1961 was William K. Reilly, a protege of the genocidal environmentalists Russell Train and Maurice Strong.

Remember some of my raves a while back on WWF – and The Nature Conservancy and connection to our Federal Government?

Firstly the link between the two.

Amongst that article, you will see Stanford University. This hall of learning also appears to be the think tank for climate change of the fanatic kind and eugenics – population reduction.

People such as:-
Paul and Anne Ehrlich – one of their books “The Population Bomb” on how the Earth cannot support the population (written in the ’70’s). They reckoned the US could not support 150 million – it is now around 300 million.

John Holdren – now POTUS Obama’s science advisor – collaborated with the Ehrlichs in writing their books and various papers. He is now carrying the alarmist Climate Change banner. He has also spoken recently on population reduction.

Stephen Schneider - promoted the Global Cooling scare in the ’70’s, also a close friend of Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Now right into the current Climate Change and Emissions Trading. Schneider has refused public debate on climate change just recently.

Now the next link between the above WWF , TNC and Australia’s Department of Environment (Sen Peter Garrett’s portfolio.). See the pretty Government letterhead. The TNC has been described as a “realestater” by some in the US. They have an on going series of projects in the US to remove people and farms from large areas of the western US, to convert it to wilderness. eg The Wildlands Project and the Y2Y project (Yellowstone to Yukon).

Supreme Master TV

Another connection, which will scare the heck out of beef, lamb and pork producers is the Supreme Master TV site. Click here to open up the site.

When the front page loads, scroll down to the WWF symbol (panda) and watch Dr Keith Allot on ” Restoring the Balance of Nature”

While on the movie clip page, you can scroll down to select Professor Barry Brook (Adelaide University – Climate scientist) on Livestock. Agriculture and climate Change. This guy is one of the chief scientific advisers to the Rudd Government.

Also the UN’s Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri on going vegetarian to save the planet, and further down Dr James Hansen of NASA’s GISS on climate change, reducing carbon – all the usual alarmist rhetoric – but he has been an adviser to Kevin Rudd and  Penny  Wrong.

Scary part of all this is that there is 1,555,000 pages available on a Google search, some of it about the Cult of Supreme Master. This series of programs is broadcast around the world on satellite, internet TV and cable where applicable.

Just a little bit of history and information from my files, to show who and what you are dealing with.

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Jun

3

9,000 Rural Jobs to Go in Kevin Rudd & Penny Wong Water Buyback Scheme.

Intended or unintended the consequences of Kevin Rudd & Penny Wongs Twynam 240 gig, $303 million water buyback are already emerging. From todays Australian Newspaper

Richard Haire

Richard Haire

The head of Australia’s oldest cotton company, Richard Haire, said his Queensland Cotton Corporation had suffered “collateral damage” from the Twynam agriculture company’s sale last week of 240 gigalitres of water.

Queensland Cotton bought three NSW cotton gins, or mills, from Twynam three years ago: in the Gwydir Valley at Collarenebri, at Warren in the Macquarie Valley, and at Mungindi in the Macintyre Valley.

Mr Haire said Twynam’s water sale meant the $20 million cotton gin at Collarenebri was no longer viable.

Anybody who has been to Collarenebri will know that will be the death of the community. QLD Cotton spent jusyt on $1 million in the townships of Collarenebri and Moree. Thats a huge hit to their local economies.

The township of Warren will also feel the brunt.

Mr Haire said half the cotton processed at the Warren gin came from Twynam properties.

“We will be doing everything we can to keep it open, but there is no doubt that this decision willcertainly shorten the season,” he said.

Haire believes the Twynam purchase and future buy backs has already killed irrigation investment.

The political and legal risk associated with investing in irrigated Agriculture in Australia has suddenly become huge. Capital investment in irrigated agriculture in Australia is going to evaporate.

Cotton Australia has estimated that every 270 megs (million litres) of irrigation water used generates one full time job. On these figures the Tywnam purchase will cost the bush 900 jobs. The Rudd government has allocated $3.1 billion for water bubacks. This will mean that an incredible 9,000 plus jobs will be lost in irrigation towns and communities.

The Rudd government has done no studies into the impacts of their water buyback on the economies of rural towns. That would be because they don’t care. The buybacks are designed to win Green preference votes not support the river and communities that grow our food and fibre.

The National Farmers Federation and its President David Crombie support the water buyback scheme.

My question is – How can you David Crombie – How?

Where is the line in the sand for the National Farmers Federation on this unrelenting attack on our nations Food and Fibre producers by the Rudd Labor government?

Doesn’t Crombie or anybody in the NFF realize that very soon there will be no one left for them to ‘represent’?

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