Another Australian industry faces destruction by our government

Has the federal government gone stark raving mad?

They have already put the live cattle export on its knees. They completely ignored departmental advice. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd didn't bother to go to Jakarta. Prime Minister Julia Gillard didn't bother to pick up the telephone to speak to the Indonesian president. But within a few days of the Four Corners program showing terrible cruelty in one particular abattoir, they panicked. MinisterJoe Ludwig suspended the trade for six months. Six months. And including exporters with access to good abattoirs in Indonesia. And now the Indonesians have decided, understandably, that we are not a reliable partner. So they are looking to other sources and they significantly reduced the number of cattle that can be imported. Thousands of jobs are at risk, businesses and property made worthless, and the taxpayers will have to pay the massive damages which the cattle producers are obviously entitled to under any system of decent justice. If that wasn’t enough the Gillard government has decided – to satisfy their green allies -, to create the world's biggest marine park reserves. They are endangering another industry – fishing . And they couldn’t care less. We are talking of an industry with over 36,000 jobs and $4 billion in revenue for the Australian fishing industry.

Yes we will still be able to buy fish. But it will be fish imported from Asia. Or perhaps caught by foreign fishermen in Australian waters. You see the government has so run down our defence forces the chances of our being able to protect this new marine reserves is rather limited. And anyway their hands are full, welcoming so-called welcoming the clients of the people smugglers most of whom have deceitfully destroyed were hidden their passports. And by the way who asked for the creation of these reserves? Piers Ackerman points out the government website admits it received almost half a million submissions. “The largest proportion of the submissions received (99.8 per cent) were campaign submissions received via email and post, the majority of which were from overseas. These submissions were generated through organised campaigns and contained various standardized text provided through templates or postcards." So Greens overseas just coincidentally flooded the government with submissions. As a result the Gillard government is prepared to destroy another industry and ensure Australians have to eat expensive imported fish. But it can be sure of continued support from its green allies.
And the Prime Minister will be able to go to Rio de Janeiro next week where 50,000 are going on carbon dioxide emitting planes to stay in air-conditioned hotels to hear why Australians will have to pay the highest carbon dioxide tax in the world. Representative democracy has been totally compromised by the politicians. The only way to ensure this never happens again is to empower the people to make the politicians accountable and every day of every week and of every month between elections.