Northern NSW Farmer and Australian Beef Association, Chairman, Brad Bellinger writes:
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Our members are yet again disgusted with the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and Cattle Council of Australia (CCA). This time it is their support for the Rudd Government’s insane Emissions Trading Scheme.
NFF & CCA addressing a conference of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) in Denmark this week, illustrates their compliance.
They are once again “selling out” Australia’s producers to the hand that feeds their personal agro-political ambitions. They should be saying “No’, ‘No’, ‘No’, to a Trading Scheme instead of having their hands out to funding from the Government to peddle this flawed nonsense.
The Copenhagen Talkfest is the regurgitating of seriously defective concerns addressed by equally flawed and questionable motions.
Senators Joyce, Boswell, Williams and Nash are the only Federal politicians showing any commonsense. An Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) or as Barnaby Joyce calls it (Employment Termination Scheme) is a means of transferring money from the public to the Corporate end of town. If the ETS is brought in, it will be the final nail in the coffin for Australia’s struggling rural sector.
It was appropriate that the talkfest was held in Copenhagen – home of Hans Christian Andersen and his classic story “The Emperor’s New Clothes‘.
Thinking Australians would like to have insisted that Professor Ian Plimer have been invited to have addressed the gathering and explain why their deliberations are naked on historic and scientific facts that record the World’s ever changing climate.
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