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“The revelation from the Australian Food and Grocery Council that Australia is now importing more food and groceries than we are exporting shows that it is not beyond our nation’s capacity to remove one of our greatest strengths, that is, to feed ourselves and others, “said Senator Barnaby Joyce.

“If you keep closing fishing grounds, if you keep taking away the property rights and the capacity to manage the land through measures such as the vegetation laws, if you centralize the markets so farmers don’t get a fair return for the work they do, if you bring in the Murray Darling Basin Plan which takes away the crucial element that produces the food- the water and if seasonal conditions go against you, then you’ll take our nation to a place where we rely on others to feed us.
This is a tenuous position because if the dollar was to depreciate because of a turnaround in the demand for iron ore and coal, then the question would be; would Australians accept the higher price of food in their trolley?
 One of the greatest gifts Australia has is affordable, clean green food and we must reinvest in the right of farmers to produce it.
It would seem quite clear from the advice from the government solicitor that there are no ambiguities in the Water Act so the Guide to the Murray Darling Basin Plan should have taken a triple bottom line approach.
If the proposed cuts to water allocations go ahead in the Murray Darling Basin, our food bowl, we will lock in the trade deficit and the net importation of food.
The water cuts will lock in a permanent state of drought to our farmers and the inability to feed ourselves.”
 
 
 
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# Simon Larrescy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:02 PM
Us, in a fair trade future? Watch the oil price... Biomass fuels is the answer if we have a future. Also, How much of that evil carbon dioxide is eaten up with grazing systems? Dairying, Cell grazing. Na, just plant a tree for bushfire fuel. Smart lot, those "shit for brains" in Canberra.
# Lorikeet
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:42 PM
Now supermarket catalogues are very heavily advertising generic products, and in the last year, the prices of generics have risen at a faster pace than name brands.

The World Trade Organisation now dictates what we may import, and from whom, thanks to Paul Keating.

As the real value of wages continues to fall, and the prices of housing, traffic fines, electricity, gas and water continue to rise, people have less money in their purses and wallets to buy name brands.

If we don't shop in the morning in the north-western suburbs of Brisbane, most of the bargains are gone!

Now it seems that all Australian citizens are being locked into one big Ponzi scheme, controlled and profitted from by large global corporations.
# Lorikeet
Friday, October 29, 2010 8:04 AM
The problem of importing more food than we actually require has now been brought to the fore in the media. I have seen it in the television news on at least 2 different channels.

One channel has also addressed the problems associated with unit pricing in some areas. A person almost needs to stand on his/her head to read the price comparison due to microscopic words being printed sideways on very low shelves.

When people's wallets are emptied by huge mortgages and utility and fuel prices, the demand for third world generic products increases at a rapid pace.

While farmers continue to receive low prices for their produce from large corporations such as Woolworths, shoppers are having to pay markups of 500%.

In case anyone didn't know, Woolworths is No. 3 in the top 2000 largest companies operating here in Australia. That includes mining companies.

Eventually we will all be:

1. working for large corporations who are paying slave wages

2. contributing 12% of our income in superannuation to large corporations

3. buying a very highly priced cubbyhole to live in from large corporations

4. purchasing food, fuel, clothing, household goods from large corporations

5. paying the price of utilities, household insurance etc to large corporations.
# Bruno Altin
Saturday, October 30, 2010 11:31 AM
I have to wonder about the motives the greens and the ALP have in cutting water to irrigators. Less food means higher prices. Higher prices means less people can afford food. this means the poor will be hit hardest. If the poor can't afford food they generally die of malnutrition. charities are already struggling with high food prices. What are the motives of the ALP and the Greens? Do they not have a policy on de-populating the world? I haven't seen any policies on how they plan to depopulate Australia and other parts of the world.... maybe this is it. I would hate to be one of those starving children in Africa.
# Lorikeet
Monday, November 01, 2010 9:54 PM
Bruce Altin:

You raise some excellent questions.

Labor and The Greens will use the prospect of food shortages as an excuse to keep importing more and more generic products to feed the poorer citizens you are talking about.

There are many methods of Population Control. Some have been used by governments around the world for decades.

1. Use people's superannuation nest eggs to sell weapons to the third world instead of food. Those who don't starve to death will either be blown away or relocated via leaky boats!

2. Legalise Abortion.

3. Legalise Euthanasia.

4. Legalise Homosexual Marriage and Adoption.

5. Wipe out the livestock industries, thereby reducing availability of high protein/calcium foods.

6. Turn a large percentage of farming land over to the possums.

Items 2 to 6 are policies of The Greens, but now Labor says they need to move to the Left to keep The Greens out. Exactly who do they think they're kidding!

BTW when I went to the shopping centre this morning, the food cages used by Foodbank to feed the starving and the homeless here in Brisbane, were back once again, after only a short absence.

The real reason that Labor and The Greens are rationing water to farmers is so that large foreign corporations can control the food supply and remove it from under our noses via privatised rail and ports. Once farmers are broken financially, large corporations will snap up their land for a song.

On the TV news, I heard that Sunrice is to be taken over by an Italian company. Last week they said a Chinese company. No doubt they intend to grow copious amounts of rice, once the farmers are gone, and the water restrictions are relaxed. Kiss goodbye to rice destined for China, with no profits available to Australians.

Goodbye to excellent Australian-produced food and associated industries. Hello to cheap foreign-grown crap of unknown origin or quality assurance.

# Simon Larrescy
Sunday, November 07, 2010 6:22 PM
Bruno & Lorikeet. To add my dribble to your talk on depopulating or population control measures. You haven't talked about the obvious and most common measure..War! is World War III upon us? Hillary is in town, talking defence when Australia and using Climate Change as a smoke screen. Defence talks is the Warmonger's game. I wonder...What has those Zionists have got installed? Have the spooks have spooked the pollies out of the white house? Now, they talk defence face to face? Maybe another religious war between the Muslims & Christians is on the cards? What is the Deal with Israeli-America? Isn't interesting how America & Israel are not putting their hands up to fight that greatest moral challenge of our time, Climate Change?...Now its 100years later, What do we learn from "Remembrance Day" Did we learn from The Great War, World War I or "The War to End All Wars"? Wars continue today. It is still, Overpopulation is Greed's Curse....
# Lorikeet
Monday, November 08, 2010 6:40 PM
Simon:

Yes, I saw the interview with Hillary Clinton.

Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott were sitting side by side and giving each other some fairly bad body language. But both of them didn't seem too happy to see the Secretary of State of the USA hanging around.

She has probably come over to manipulate both of them into agreeing to a significant increase in warfare (possibly in Afghanistan). Yes, war is the driving force behind starvation, immigration and asylum seeking. If you look again, you will see that I have mentioned this previously.

I'm sure Hillary Clinton said that both the USA and Australia had cooled off the idea of Climate Change.

You might remember that Professor Lord Nicholas Stern wants to reduce the global "carbon footprint" by 90%.

But here's what I think the true agenda might be. They will eventually introduce a Carbon Trading Scheme, from which the third world will be exempt. This means that the western nations will be robbed blind and completely deindustrialised, leading to mass unemployment, starvation and death.

At the same time, the third world will be subjected to the Carbon Pollution Population Solution. The people will die in droves from lung disease and cancer, because all of the pollution will have landed at their place.

So when we see the words Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), the only thing that will be reduced is the population. So it really should read Carbon Pollution Population Reduction Scheme (CPPRS).

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