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Senator Joyce is today the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 AUSVEG National Convention and stated that it was pertinent that he be speaking to food growers given this morning's news.
Global food prices have increased by 36% in the past year, and the World Bank estimates that this has directly forced an additional 44 million people into poverty.
Australia has a moral obligation to produce food, to feed ourselves, and to feed the world. Policies which put aside prime agricultural land and reduce our capacity to produce the vegetables, to produce the wheat, to produce the stock, to produce the rice, or other food commodities, are immoral.
The suggestion that we reduce the allocation of water for irrigation to such an extent that it closes down the rice industry, will mean that somebody else, somewhere else starves.  The suggestion that we use our prime agricultural land to plant trees for carbon sink forests means that somebody who we formerly fed goes without.
Carbon sequestration to improve the productivity of land is a good idea on multiple fronts because it allows us to produce more and to feed more. But carbon sequestration policies that inspire a forest, where once there was prime agricultural land producing food, are of little use to humanity unless we envisage evolving into a higher form of termite.
Australia should be producing food in quantity and quality. We should be doing our very best to make sure the section of the Australian population that has the agronomic, veterinary, and the mechanical expertise and the financial resilience is looked after. This will encourage them to stay and help grow a more productive food growing sector.
Australian farming families are a moral good and this is endorsed by millions of people throughout the world that would be hungry without them.
 
 
 
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# Lorikeet
Friday, April 15, 2011 10:30 AM
That's right, Barnaby.

We have to feed the people, but we do not have to fall victim to false claims that the population will increase to monumental levels, when the Age Pyramids of various countries tell quite a different story.

We have to feed the people, but we do not have to allow foreign corporations to grow and remove food from our land via privatised rail and ports, thereby destroying our economy, and possibly leaving our own people to starve.

We have to feed the people, but we do not have to participate in the global agenda to take away our autonomy.

We have to feed the people, but we do not have to import foods we are capable of producing ourselves, just as we do not have to increase pollution to service other people's economies.

We therefore do not close down the rice industry by depriving Australian farmers of water, so that large foreign corporations can take over.

And we do not bring in a Carbon Tax to make life harder for all Australians, while other countries prosper.
# John Pritchard
Monday, April 18, 2011 12:44 AM
Excellent interview and commentary on the Insiders (ABC TV) this Sunday morn.
Well spoken clear and concise. Especially liked the analogy about ones house being put on fire and a fire engine to be sent later. Brilliant analogy.

Allegedly we nationally pump out < 1.5% of greenhouse gases? You are 100% correct,...absolutely no worldly difference will be effected.

I could go on Barnaby but suffice to say, your wording captured it all. An inspirational, brilliantly worded snapshot of reality.

Please keep it up!
# Lorikeet
Monday, April 18, 2011 4:18 PM
Yes, Barnaby looked and performed well on the "Insiders" program, giving lots of information to viewers.

On today's news I saw a woman representing Fruit and Vegetable Growers. She said a Carbon Tax would push up the price of food.

With 70% of people rejecting a Carbon Tax in the polls, we could probably just tell the GLI to stick ANY new tax up their jumper, but it wouldn't be much use, would it? According to a recent TV report, 93% of Australian clothing is made in China, and their damned jumpers would probably fall apart.
# Graham Healy
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:33 PM
Spot on Barnaby,
I had a vision after the Floods in Queensland, (some say an act of God certainly what I saw was on the positive outcomes not the negative) ,
what I saw was that Australia became the FRUIT BOWL OF THE WORLD ! The water tables were renewed, rivers flushed out , we are now in a prime position to follow through on the Vision .
Also , I saw the Sugar can Industry renewed to its former Glory , but this time it was producing ethanol ! (My Grandfather was a sugar-cane pioneer from Innisfail) Like you see Australia Barnaby, I see it too as the Fruit Bowl feeding the world , further more , I saw that japanese industry partnered with Australia and established car buildinging factories in Australia on a massive scale (employing , Aussie + our Japanese partners) , Mate Australia's future is very bright and our links with SE Asia is growing stronger by the minute.
Lets get rid of these 'economy wrecking liers' who hang onto power over this Great land by a 'spiders thread' ....lets Get into the business of building this Nation and employing Auzzies into real full time work (not these deceptive employment figures presented by the bureaurcrats), It TIME Barnaby, keep up the Good work , the ground swell of Aussie Battlers are right behind you mate !

Cheers ,


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# Lorikeet
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:54 PM
Well, perhaps if Barnaby runs for a lower house seat and becomes the Deputy Leader of the LNP, he can turn the country around if we all get behind him.

When I spoke to Bob Katter a few weeks ago, I said I thought that he and/or Barnaby would need to do the job themselves, since there is no one else I think we can depend upon.

On the television news I have seen huge fields of cotton being harvested in the St George area. Now I am having a vision of clothing being made in Australian factories again.

Ah yes! And yet another vision of the GLI all filing into a meeting of Taxaholics Anonymous, then going to hell in a hand basket.
# Ben
Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:41 AM
I live in an area that used to have thriving sugarcane & banana industry which was the major employment provider in the shire.
Along came the Howard government (of which Barny Joyce was a senior member) who then (against the advice of industry experts) removed import restrictions.
As a result of this decision many people in my area lost their jobs or were forced to move away for employment.
Our banana industry no longer exists, which is a shame because the north Queensland floods has forced up the price but we no longer have an industry to fill the gap. The latest news is that our sugar mill may close at the end of the crushing season.
Barny Joyce‘s decision to support the opening of our borders to cheep & potentially diseased imports and the subsequent job losses in my community is not something I expected from a person who allegedly supports rural communities.
Now Barny has come our stated that “We should be doing our very best to make sure the section of the Australian population that has the agronomic, veterinary, and the mechanical expertise and the financial resilience is looked after” but he has previously participated in decisions that contradicts this statement.
Barnaby Joyce has previously done a back flip on Global Warming in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence and now admits that possibly the experts may be right. Is he now doing another back flip and seeking to re-dress his support of a decision that had a major adverse impact in my community?
I’m sorry Barny but I do not support politicians that say one thing in public and do the opposite behind closed doors.
# Lorikeet
Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:42 PM
I think we must remember that the National Party is the "poor cousin" of the Coalition and is therefore not in the driver's seat at the moment. Added to this, Labor/Greens are pushing the worst of the new taxes and legislation, while the Coalition itself sits in Opposition.

If Barnaby gets into the lower house (which I wouldn't consider too difficult because of his high level of popularity), he can work with Bob Katter and a number of other patriots whom I know DO exist in the parliament, to give all of the Corporate Neo-Communists, Grim Reapers and Taxaholics the thumping they richly deserve. Trust me, good people will emerge from the woodwork in numbers large enough to bring down both the upper and lower houses.

Bob Katter told me he wants Australia to start manufacturing ethanol, instead of importing it from Brazil. When he has his way, people from the Philippines, China, South America etc etc will have to stuff their inferior foodstuffs and goods up their respective Khybers, and our cane and banana farmers will rise like Phoenixes from the ashes, to walk the earth once more beating their chests with pride.

To my knowledge, Barnaby has never supported a Carbon Tax and thinks the government's experts are just a pack of well-paid nongs. 70% of the people have said a loud "NO!" to a Carbon Tax, and there are no prizes for guessing where the GLI needs to stick that as well.

As we speak, Julia Gillard is overseas teeing up the next round of Free Trade Agreements designed to sell out our farmers and manufacturers and bring in more cheap junk food, clothing, equipment and knick knacks for us to pitch onto the dump on an extremely monotonous basis ... adding to the landfill ... which Anna Bligh will then use to land a Waste Levy on us.

Let's all remember that Labor has done most of the corporatisation of government assets and utilities, and signed most of the international agreements, declarations and treaties that sell us out as a nation.

Let us all get a handle on exactly who is the true enemy!

We must get behind the true patriots of this country (Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter and many others who will flock to their cause) to turn this nation around. This will include tens of thousands of people from behind the scenes, including myself.

Are you with us, or not??

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