QLD grain grower and Agmates member Rowell Walton writes:
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Rowell Walton
On Friday last our Federal Minister for agriculture Tony Burke asserted to the nations parliament that wheat growers were $30 dollars per tonne better off as a result of Labor joining with the Liberals and legislating out of existence Australian wheat growers single desk mechanism for the sale of export wheat.
In fact he was complimenting the Liberal party on its job, but what should be evident to all Australian’s is the philosophical similarity between the Liberals and Labor.
It should not be a surprise that Agriculture would bear the load of increasing deregulation and continued privatisation. Fred Hilmer, at the request of Keating in the nineties indicated the direction we would be taking, the national competition policy direction has been maintained through Labor and conservative governments from that time.
That the farmers chardonnay set the National Farmers Federation (NFF), have nurtured the process is something of an understatement. Their submissions are public and indicate an extremist free market direction rarely seen and certainly not reflecting the need of a rural community who exports just some 25% of its output.
Nevertheless their (NNF) loss of direction and removal from the mainstream farming community seems to be just deserts for failing their people and it brings me to the question of why Tony Burke would stand in the Australian parliament and assert wheat growers are $30.00 a tonne better off?
The Question is Tony, where is your study, who did it and lets have a look at it.
No I haven’t said I do not believe you, but I am well used to lies emanating from Canberra, used to indoctrinate the less observant. Your spin doctors may well think we will believe it if you just keep saying it over and over, but lets prove you have not misled the Australian parliament and direct us to the study, preferably peer reviewed.
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