The live sheep trade is an important market for WA sheep farmers and today’s live export industry is one to be proud of. Show your support to WA farmers & send the message that we want to #keepthesheep
For Info on live export check 👩💻@livestock_the@AustLiveExports@AusLiveCorp
@9NewsPerth & @abcnews let’s cut the crap with livestock ‘trapped’ on export ship & @RSPCA for misinformation.
The ships are a great place for livestock who show contentment. I’m happy to sit on the pad they live on. Proud of those involved looking after the Bahijah livestock 💚
the message needs to get through to governments that every time you increase the costs for farmers you push up the cost of food to the consumers and those who can afford it least pay the most (proportionally). My front gate! @NationalFarmers@WAFarmers
@MurrayWatt@TheMatildas@AlboMP Murray this is just virtue signaling to hide the abject failure of your dodgy policy on live sheep. Time to take the WA government example and reverse the decision! Do what you say you’re going to do and follow the science not emotion!
WA Labor has pulled the pin on its botched Heritage Act in a spectacular backflip. This is a win for farmers, for land owners and for common sense. WA Labor’s laws would have put a handbrake on our State
“I don't see why any particular group of Australians, however much they might be respected, should have their own special voice to the government into the parliament over and above the voice that every other Australian gets” — @HonTonyAbbott#ABC730
With my state Liberal and National colleagues I’m calling for the 1 July implementation of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act to be delayed, so that the Department can run proper consultations and farmers have the time to work out how these changes will impact them.
The ad, paid for by you whether you like it or not, continued by saying the Voice would give indigenous Australians a say in their own future.
But they already have a say.
In fact, lots of says.
According to the 2021 Census, people of aboriginal descent make up about 3.8% of Australia’s population – an increase of 30% since the previous census in 2016. But people claiming aboriginal descent make up nearly 8% of elected representatives in our Federal Parliament.
In addition there are multiple bodies which claim to lobby for & represent the interests of indigenous people.
The NIAA says its purpose is to be: “responsible for whole-of-government coordination of policy development, program design & service delivery for Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people, who are grouped under the term Indigenous Australians.”
This body is funded by taxpayers to the extent of over $1Bn per year.
It is one of many.
Last night I saw for the first time one of the taxpayer funded advertisements for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
I was appalled at its dishonesty.
It began by saying the Constitution is 123 years old & “still doesn’t recognise indigenous people.”
How shocking!
How racist!
*Except it is nothing of the sort.
The Constitution still doesn’t recognise white people, or Chinese people, or Italians or any ethnic groups..
*The reason people of ethnicity are not recognised in the Constitution is that no race is specifically mentioned in that Constitution.
To repeat; the reason people of Irish, African, Vietnamese, or Australian Aboriginal descent are not recognised in the Constitution is that no race is specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
This is not racist or exclusionary.
It is the exact opposite.
No race is singled out for recognition or special treatment because we have a commitment as a nation to treating everyone of every race & background as equal before the law, with equal rights & obligations.
Farmers, stock agents, ag suppliers, transporters, farm staff and most importantly FAMILIES in regional Australia will be adversely affected by any #liveexportphaseout raise your hand if you’re already feeling it 🖐️ @Middleton_Says
What happened in the Nursery Fund last year? The Nursery Fund Annual Report 2020/21 reported that $2.8M in levy funds were invested in R&D a further $727,404 in marketing. Read more here: https://t.co/FmIUVWBO94 @Hort_Au