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Its Time To Support Our Food & Fibre Producers

Its Time To Support Our Food & Fibre Producers

If Australians don’t make a decision soon to actively support our food and fibre producers just like our manufacturing industries they will be be gone forever. Agricultural Free Trade policy… Read more »

One Year Of Wheat Degregulation – Reaping What You Sow

One Year Of Wheat Degregulation – Reaping What You Sow

NSW Senator and Deputy Senate Leader of the Nationals Fiona Nash writes: Tuesday June 23 marked the first anniversary of the end of the single desk wheat exporting marketing system… Read more »

Has Nathan Rees Got It Right With His Made In China Ban ?

Has Nathan Rees Got It Right With His Made In China Ban ?

Freelance Journalist and Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes: . Shopping gives me the China Blues. A rare shopping trip turned out to be the China Syndrome revisited for me recently…. Read more »

Has Tony Burke Mislead Parliament Saying Wheat Growers $30 a Tonne Better Off Under Deregulation?

Has Tony Burke Mislead Parliament Saying Wheat Growers $30 a Tonne Better Off Under Deregulation?

QLD grain grower and Agmates member Rowell Walton writes: . On Friday last our Federal Minister for agriculture Tony Burke asserted to the nations parliament that wheat growers were $30… Read more »

Free Trade Is A Free ‘Kick In The Guts’ For Australia’s Food Producers

Free Trade Is A Free ‘Kick In The Guts’ For Australia’s Food Producers

Agmates editor Steve Truman writes: . The great  myth of global Free Trade is unraveling faster than Trade Minister Simon Crean and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke can say Chk- Chk… Read more »

Free Trade ? Same Item – China Imposes 30% Import Duty, Australia Just 5%

Free Trade ? Same Item – China Imposes 30% Import Duty, Australia Just 5%

Agmate Andrew Moyle Colonial Leather at Bendigo Vic writes from China: . As for Tariffs, I have campaigned long and hard, met with members of parliament and ministers in the… Read more »

Unite NOW to bring back Tariffs and Regulation of Australian Industries

Unite NOW to bring back Tariffs and Regulation of Australian Industries

Agmates member Lyn Bennetts writes: . We don’t need a leader! A leader is a target! We need to stand shoulder to shoulder and unite in one voice all saying… Read more »

Picked Off By A Deadly Sniper –  One Australian Agriculture Industry at a Time.

Picked Off By A Deadly Sniper – One Australian Agriculture Industry at a Time.

Free Trade is the deadly sniper that is methodically killing off Australian agriculture industries just as it has our manufacturing industry. You the reader like most people probably think that’s… Read more »

Kevin Rudd And Labor Destroying Jobs In Rural Australia With New Export Tax

Kevin Rudd And Labor Destroying Jobs In Rural Australia With New Export Tax

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor team have once again plucked the Goose that lays the golden egg – Australian Agriculture. Labors urban boy wonder, Agriculture Minister Tony… Read more »

USA Pumps Billions Into Rural & Regional Communities

USA Pumps Billions Into Rural & Regional Communities

The USA is pumping Billions directly into its farm sector in an effort to jump start rural & regional communities economy. WASHINGTON, March 9, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack… Read more »