http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/livestock/news/agents-take-a-trip-down-memory-lane/1333386.aspx?src=enews

http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/slideshowplayer.aspx?id=3869

http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/state/livestock/news/priests-blessing-for-live-ex-stock/1332192.aspx

No wonder the news report on this grand dinner was kept to a few short words in the Country Life Paper.

They were all there- Landmark Elders and others. I just wonder how short their memories really are because nobody can forget their track record of gross Animal cruelty.

Perhaps those who are interested in common decency towards our Australian Animals could help these people out with their trip down memory lane.

Does anybody have recollections of some of these trips?

Who could forget the Cormo for example.

Let’s see if we can help them with ```memories.```

We can try and fight such ignorance, thanks for the informative links.We have been educated to shop at the supermarkets and ask no questions, so you get no lies. Your fight is a bit like mine re water quality for folk living in small towns and working in the mining industry with a few rural workers who live in these towns.
http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/water-for-coal-threatens-fitzroy-basin/1323904.aspx

Beef to Russia, do you know if it is meat, or live export? Will the Russians cry poor, like they did with the Wheat a few years back, I wonder! http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/livestock/cattle/russian-market-the-future-for-australian-beef/1328428.aspx

For your information ma edda:

Major Australian exports to Russia (2007):

• Meat (excluding bovine) - A$95 million
• Bovine meat - A$38 million
• Raw hides and skins (except furskins) - A$29 million
• Live animals - A$14 million **

** Courtesy of our depraved and sadistic Australian government and their cruel connections!

ma edda,

We thank you also for your interesting links and look forward to responding in a more detailed manner.

I am off to the bush to organise- You guessed it water. Then off to a town which has been brought out by the mining industry.

Of course you do know our now PM Kevin Rudds from QLD and his track record on water years ago dont you.

The old farmers up there still havent got over it and they wll never forget.

dickies, comment requires futher explaination which I will attempt to tackle upon my return.

Sadly ma edda there is not enough basic education going out to the main stream public. Those who take an interest such as Dickie have every right to refer to the Government as the depraved and sadistic Australian government with their cruel connections



We must educate the people in simple lay terms why we hold the government to account. We all know the Government will say Live Animal Exports is driven by the industry itself. In other words they are telling the Australian public other countries must have these animals alive.

Its a bit like your water mining V Ag in a fashion.

Why indeed has the Government have done cart wheels to protect this cruel trade for their buddies in this industry.

We also need to look at why the main players in animal welfare have refused to be involved in projects to make regional areas the cente of local processing plants to faze out live exports.

In the mean time it would be good to hear some truths as to what happend on these ships in the last 30 years or so.

So I encourage those with information to highlight what these memory lane awards were all about.

Lets tell them our memory is fresh with the screams and the suffering of innocent animals for no good reason!

Lets we forget AWB Elders Landmark....

Our Nations greatest shame and these guys give themselves awards!

Australian public so NO to these companies cruelty.

Well It looks like Nivk+Dick have skipped ship and I am going to have and sit and post the History and the facts of Elders Landmark AWB and several dozen others buring animals alive = tossing them overboard feeding down mincers while still alive.
Times dates etc.

This is what I mean about working for animals instead of peoples personal agendas and memos.

Ok I will do that too. I will post everyship and incident.

I will start soon down memory lane so we will all know what the Award Dinner was about.

I hope the memories stay in peoples minds for a very long time.

For The Animals.

Thanks, People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming for your reply.

Seems 'dickie,' was more interested in telling me the facts and figures than entering depth discussion on the profit at any cost from these large corporations.

My daughter & her husband are beef producers, free range grazing & some Forage Sorghum when climate & fuel costs allow production, this is their sole occupation, for the local market, here in Central Queensland.

My brother has left the Dairy Industry after years of no income derived from that industry & now runs a few beef producing animals, after selling off his dairy cattle. He had the opportunity in working at a local abattoir but after a lifetime of rearing & caring for animals could not see himself killing them.

Dickie, I have neighbors who harvest kangaroo for a hobby or second income, so I would be in a minority if I were to jump up and down & scream at them what you have said in your short entry. All four of my sons chased & caught wild pig, even as young as 11 & 12 years with friends as their mother had little or no money to give them. There was not the high paid jobs about, rather impossible to be home & out at work & I lived too far from family to get free child minding.Their English Born father had died, leaving me one of those Single Mothers, & his relatives showed up 25 years after we buried him, now claiming to be 'Family!'