Gillard government panicked - thousands suffering

Australia's live export industry and the many businesses dependent on it are still suffering from the severe blow inflicted on them by the Gillard government in June 2011. Some fear it may yet prove fatal. A year ago the ABC’s Four Corners screened a story showing appalling cruelty to a small number of Australian cattle sent to Indonesian abattoirs. The Gillard government took just six days to respond with a six months total ban on the live export trade with Indonesia. The minister did not go to Indonesia. Nor did Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.

Prime Minister Gillard did not even pick up the phone to speak to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono . The government ignored advice from the department not to do this. They warned that farmers would be overstocked and would have inadequate feed. Animals could starve and the industry damaged.
Acting against this advice the Minister, Joe Ludwig, clearly panicked.

This has been ruinous for the industry.

The Indonesian government has clearly have decided Australia is unreliable and they will go elsewhere for much of their food. In “Farmers feeling hung out to dry”(2/6) “ The Australian’s Hedley Thomas reports on a likely legal action. This will probably result in taxpayers paying enormous damages for the government's negligence to farmers whose businesses are ruined and whose property cannot be sold. My tip is the government is so embarrassed it will settle this and try to gag those damaged. Lawyer and former jackaroo Trent Thorne has obtained documentary evidence establishing that "the exercise of the minister's power in making the order was so unreasonable that no reasonable person could so exercise the power". You can hear Trent Thorne and his brother cattleman James Thorne interviewed on 8 June by 2GB’s Alan Jones by following the link below.

Isn't this scandal justification for demanding the right to recall governments to an election if the majority of Australians want that?

Read more: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/farmers-feeling-hung-out-to-dry/story-e6frg8zx-1226380925999 Listen: http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=13141