I was truly amazed to see in one of the ABC news items in relation to the use of the Randwick Racecourse facilities for World Youth Day, the outright allegation by the AJC of bad faith on the part of the Catholic Church in those negotiations. Coming from the AJC, you would have to believe its likely true.

This makes me ask myself: Is the NSW government deliberately trying to create discord between its legitimate long-term lessee of this prime real estate, the AJC, and itself, in order to make some or all of the AJC's operations at Randwick appear not to have a viable future?

It sure looks like it, with that government even thinking of allowing so much as one extra unnecessary pair of feet to tread in the quarantined area. Next question of myself: Could the Catholic Church, or an organisation associated with it, have its eyes on this piece of prime public real estate, and be seeking through influence within the NSW Parliament to have the existing lessees kicked out so that it can proceed with a lucrative development deal? Or are other unidentified interests using the Catholic Church's interest in the facilities as a smokescreen for a planned asset-stripping of the NSW public for private profit.

Last question of myself: could it have been that Equine Influenza did not so much escape, as was deliberately released by some misguided zealot, in order to put pressure on the racing industry in general and the AJC in particular to co-operate in NSW government plans to apply public assets for private profit?

As chance would have it, I was laying down some old newspapers as garden sheet mulching the other day. Several of them contained reports of the 1994 mystery virus that ended up claiming Queensland trainer Vic Rail's life, together with many racehorses at that time. One article stated that the Queensland Major Crimes Squad were investigating the possibility of foul play in the introduction of the then unidentified virus on that occasion.

Stick to your guns, AJC! And good luck.

Forrest

Your right on the Mark re using race courses. As I said they had 6 THOUSANDS YOUTH pluss others here just last week.
I just drove past there a few minutes ago and a couple of horses are still down the end of the field not far from where they were. Its was put on by Australian university youth sport.
Then they all trudged off mainly back to Brisbane and Sunshine coast.
Umm Vick Rail- Did you know there was a vet who died but he was working to prove it was something along the line of what you were mentioning.
I had a riding school at the time and a part time worker who was a well know contact in Melbourne informed me this was going to happen six weeks before it happend. Not the horses but a horse trainer.
Said a mate had brought a vile into the country and NOBODY would be able to decect what is was. Told him I didnt want to know and forgot about it until my mother called in a panic telling me to watch my horses and myself because THE VIRIS as they called it was around. I felt the hairs on the back on my neck stand up until I heard they were going to kill all the horses to make it look good.
Several of us tried to save the horses and thats when I did get involved in their LIES.
There were profesors waiting overseas to come at their own expense. PROVE there was nothing wrong with the horses BUT the were waiting on an invitation from the Australia Minister.
They told lie after bat lie to public including NOBODY would take the horses onto their Properties.
Anybody who tried to help WAS dealt with.
Too bad- screw them. How dare the kill innocent horses to cover up others problems!
I suspect its extorsion of kind and how better to hurt the Aussies. A Nation of gamblers.
The poor horses locked in boxes and staff not thee to even take them for their daily walk. Its cruel.

Forrest
May we suggest with respect in future if you dont really want to know the truth then think twice about opening a thread.
Here is how it should work.
Somebody opens a thread.- If your really lucky another person may read that thread who has some inside knowledge on the topic.
They may after considerable thought decide to post some of that information to support your thread.
The idea behind it is of course also to inform the public there by supporting freedom of speech.

Sometimes people take extrordinary risks to do the right thing.
We can see you were given too much information which takes us to the question.
Why bother raising the matter in the first place.?

A rather strange thing to do to raise Vick Rail then run from comments regarding that particular event.
We did have conversations with his x and several others.

As you raised it we supported your thread at considerable risk.

We just wont bother taking you as a serious poster in future.
Our mistake

People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming
I do not understand your lashing out at Forrest, I must have missed something.
Am I to understand you are angry at the reference to the Death of Vic Rail, and the length of time it took for authorities in finding the cause as well as preventing any further
Disease & deaths in both horse & man. The present outbreak appears to be
--similar to the Hendra or Equine Morbillivirus that struck in Australia a few years ago. ... virus that we once called Equine ...
http://www.abc.com.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/1999/21134.htm
“Equine morbillivirus has naturally caused disease in horses and humans.
Experimentally, cats and guinea pigs have been infected (3). The disease in cats is very similar to the disease in horses (8). The recent detection of neutralizing antibody to EMV in the native Australian fruit-bats suggests a possible resevoir for EMV (10)” I Quote from:.
http://www.phsource.us/PH/PALM/PDA/EQUINE%20MORBILLIVIRUS%20PNEUMONIA.pdf

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