Tag Archives: Tony Burke
Australian Government Climate Adviser Wants Beef & Dairy Herds Gone In 2 Years
Australian 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… Read more
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
Farmday Roaring Success – Numbers up 33% – 730 Families this Year.
Meat and Livestock Australia’s Nigel Gosse writes: . More than 730 families participated in this year’s ‘FarmDay’ which is designed to provide city families with the opportunity to visit a… Read more
New ABARE Report – Kevin Rudd’s ETS Will Bankrupt Australia’s Food Producers
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, John Cobb writes: . Farmers will go broke and food prices will rise, are the main findings of ‘official’ Government modelling into the… Read more
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
$908.234 Million Budget Cut Decimates Agriculture
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, John Cobb writes: . The Rudd Government’s second budget is not only plunging the nation into $220 billion of accumulated deficit, it is compromising our farmers’… Read more
Agriculture Minister Tony Burke Bows to Pressure & Scraps Plans to Import live Foot And Mouth Virus
In a win for common sense Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke has announced will not allow the import of live Foot and Mouth Virus into Australia. We can thank three… Read more
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
Tony Burke Slugs Huge New Tax On Australian Agricultural Exports
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, John Cobb [pictured] writes: ***** Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke has announced the Rudd Government will introduce a new tax on agricultural exports… Read more
South American Beef Anyone?
Australian Agriculture minister Tony Burke and Trade Minister Simon Crean have taken great pride in announcing the following Free Trade initiatives this week. Thrown open the doors to a flood… Read more
