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Nice timing
Slimy government goons trade away a good system for gain to whom
We have a group of liberal backbenchers including Wilson Tuckey and Albie Schultz pushing for opening up of the bidding, which effectively gives the profits to the middlemen, whether they be multinational brokers or locals as seen in the support group of marketeers who financed the recent gathering this week of backbench AWB attackers. The wheat farmers are at least 80% in favour of a single desk – they know whose bottom line is cut with intra competition. Result? Selling out, big business buy ups of farms, eventual pushing for GM wheat, and loss of markets for our clean wheat, then? GM planting in Canada and US as no competition. Iraq allegedly already is planting GM wheat. Multinationals rule. Farmers know the deal. The backbenchers need close watching as quite a cute little pocket mob for a quick board job, no doubt. Perhaps they can explain why there are no calls for BHP to unravel despite deep implication? And no calls for Howard et al to resign despite either lying to the neck or overt incompetence at an unbelievable level that is damaging to our country and export market.
No, the AWB is a target for the usual slimy business reasons. The recent attempt by dairy farmers to use a single desk was squashed this week by the Samuels ACCC and further suffering for the farmers and closures will eventuate. The wheat farmers should take note: once the single desk is gone, it is gone for good, especially with a consumer watchdog that listens so well to big business. (Note the oil issues that Prof Fels started that have been dropped with the tantalising threat from the PM recently to restart last year if prices don't become more reasonable – curb the greed, mates – and down came the prices, in lockstep as usual. Another story we could maybe re-visit?) The Nats know the score. See how this unfolds. Ms Nash has said how important the single desk is for an industry selling in a skewed, subsidised market.
All those warnings and Howard's mob "I knows nozzzingk" fails the industry so traitorously and maligned so insultingly our intelligence networks. And our nation when we already are running at 6% negative trade relationship.
Cheers