Part Two

While on the job, a little bit more on Honest John. Some say that if efficiently revealed to the public, the following political truism could have surely caused our Prime Minister an impeachment. It is about the bi-Lateral Trade agreement with America having loosened our import laws so much that a shipment of suspected foot and mouth infected Brazilian carcase meat was landed in NSW and disposed of on a town rubbish dump. On a worried stockbreeder contacting SBS Dateline which had arranged the Revelation per George Negus, the only answer from an SBS spokesperson was that the news had needed to be hushed up.

It seems that this Howard government has managed that many political escapes they might have broken a world record. But this one about landing suspect carcase meat into a country and not implicating either the sender, the arranger, nor the allower, must just about beat the band.

There has also been comments about our moronic Australian public, having got so used to our Federal Government getting away with things and working undercover, we think it is just the new Australian Way. Mayhap through our PM we have now adopted the American Way - or trying to?

George C, WA - Bushbred

The cracks are starting to appear.

• The Single Desk system cannot be put at risk, and we welcome the commitment from the Federal Government that it will not be used as a bargaining chip in these FTA negotiations. Andrew Lindberg = Speaking about the WTO Round and Australian Free Trade Negotiations in Post -Iraq 2003 June 5th, 2003
• http://www.iibel.adelaide.edu.au/docs/FarmingCommunity.pdf

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• End the single desk: exporters
By Asa Wahlquist – 06 Feb. 2006
GRAIN exporters will lobby the Howard Government to strip AWB of its export monopoly this week, arguing that too much power rests in the hands of one organisation.
The Australian Grain Exporters Association will propose the $3.5 billion wheat export trade be opened up, with a regulatory body set up to register bulk exporters. http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18050021%5E421,00.html

• The US FTA issue highlights policy failures in Australian agriculture “Australian farmers, therefore, are border price competitive - but not competitively efficient.” http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2323By Ben Rees - posted Wednesday, 7 July 2004

A Royal Commission! What for? Blind freddy knows , Howard ,Vaile and Downer are in this up to thier necks. Why dip into the public purse to prove it. Many Australians are happy to support the ongoing incarcaration of Mr David Hicks on far less evidence than already exists against the three wise monkey's.What would a Royal Commission prove? Money is thier god, decency and principles come a very poor second. The Ozzie population dont give a toss. Its madenning and sadenning in equal measure.

By all means push to have them face the Cole Inquiry.

But let us not have more Commissions permanent or otherwise. It is time to address the fundamentals of good governance - stakeholder engagement at all times, transparency, accountability, responsible behaviour by people in organisations and trust. We need to train all in organisations in tools based on our much-improved scientific understanding of the human mind to improve individual and organisational integrity. E-technology can be used in such tools to leave behind a permanent record.

Also we need to press for some real freedom of information in FOI laws and less restrictive libel laws.

"Money is thier god, decency and principles come a very poor second."

Umm hedgehog, in this case you miss the reality of the situation.
Aussie wheat farmers, having to compete against the power of the US Govt and all its subsidies and manipulative tactics, for a market.

Clearly your income and feeding your family does not depend on exporting to third world countries, with the US Govt as competition. How many companies have been caught up in the story?
How many of them are US based? Check for yourself.... AWB was
one of many.

Yabby, your point being?