The events conducted across the nation on 8 April 2019 by animal activists demonstrated both their complete disregard for opinions or values other than their own, and their contempt for the concepts of privacy, property security, animal welfare and a livestock sector.
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Local Avian Influenza Outbreak Sparks Review of Biosecurity Agreement
In the wake of the H7 “local” Avian Influenza outbreaks in Vic, NSW and ACT, there has been a rush of bureaucratic survey-taking, and requests for input and opinion, all hoping that meat poultry growers tell government departments how wonderfully they handled the outbreak. Sadly, they are receiving the truth: the good, the bad and […]
read moreACGC Comments on National Competition Policy Principles and Plan
You might recall the “old” National Competition Policy and Principles. That’s the highy theoretical, economist-driven, philosophical document that resulted in removal of the Meat Poultry growers’ Countervailing power legislation in all states, resulting in grower not even having a full ability to use delegates to negotiate thier comtacts for them. Even the ACCC law changes […]
read moreACGC Comments on Proposed New/Updated National Water Plan
The old National Water Plan, published in the early 2000’s, brought us (eventually) the highly contested Murray Darling Basin Plan State goverments getting involved in your dam storages a trading scheme for water that works poorly during drought….. and so on. NOW the government wants to impose a NEW National Water Plan. It appears that […]
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