According to Farm Weekly "The WA meat industry has been shocked by WA Small Business Minister Margaret Quirk’s decision to block a proposal for meat processors to return to employing overseas workers under the 457-visa scheme.

"The WA Meat Industry Council and processors from around the State believed they were close to having the freeze imposed by Federal Government on abattoirs employing overseas workers, lifted - until Ms Quirk stepped in."

According to farm groups this is the only industry that can't take advantage of the 457 visa scheme.

http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=41915

SOURCE: Extract from report in Farm Weekly, WA, April 19.















Copyright © 2007. Rural Press Limite

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This could be fixed with one flick of a lambs tail but the Federal Government if they wanted to.

If ever the Australian public needed proof the create live exports here it is.

Its worse than that because it blocks a large sector of Australians from entering the world trade .

These large self vested Companies operate by donations to political parties.

With the drought the jobs created in regional areas might have come in handy. Sure we have to bring in trained abattoir workers from overseas to train our youth for these jobs.

The reason for that is just like any other trade. Thats is that this country has gone down the drain in its performance to train skilled workers.

Remember everybody according to the Government the reason we have live exports is because the Muslims wont except them any other way. Thats a lie.
Muslim leaders have gone as far to lodge a very reasonable alternative to live exports at the Senate Enquiry.
As a matter of fact they are the only ones that have told it like it is.

I can see this going to have to be a very long thread.

Has anybody guessed yet what “that’ meeting was about in WA? Please explain Your Labour Ministers actions?

It’s clear that the blocking of abattoir workers has not been fully understood by the general public. It has been put to me one reason there is not so much screaming within the city folk is that Australia now has so many other nationalities that nobody cares- not even some Aussies. I don’t believe that.
This blocking abattoir worker is an absolute disgrace. No Prize for guessing what” that” meeting was about Ah
Not that it’s surprising as this meat Industry has operated under a cloud of secrecy for years.

Lets start by putting it this way. What is it about this ONE industry [the Meat industry] that is "so different" from every other industry in this country.

It is ONLY in this industry people are not allowed to bring in staff from overseas. That doesnt seem fair at all.

So much so that a few years ago we started to look at why?

It was `strange` to us considering the Government has agreed to bring in fruit pickers in the past and just about every other skilled labour into Australia.

Somebody must have the Government or Governments by the short and curlies to just stop this one lot of skilled workers. Speaking of feeding the chooks.

We became more and more interested. We were starting by contacting some old abattoir owners.

A lot of our information was given to us by X-abattoir owners who had lost pretty much everything due to these policies.

What most of them told us was that they were forced out of business by two main issues.

One was the lack of ability to get abattoir workers. The other was the lack of supply on a steady chain.

They told us they had literally been pushed out of business by the cruel live export trade.

to be continued

It was interesting how some of these old timers would tell us of the different business that closed down in their little country towns after they were forced to close.

One old guy was crying because he still felt he had let the people in his town down.

He had a few blokes that had pretty high mortgages he said that lost the lot.

At the moment with the drought especially there is a glut of animals being rushed off to sale yards because the farmers can’t feed or water them.

In WA one company in particular has been working to re open an abattoir to create employment for some of these farmers who very soon won’t have a pay packet.

I take my hat off to them and say this. Please don’t give up.-We applaud you.

Will the Minister of Small Business please explain herself?

Sounds to me more like the Minister of looking after the big boys Business of the Cruel live Export Trade.

Boy I bet the Lady’s who skirt was hidden under is popular- almost as popular as the other person.

Ah, now I know what goes on at Infamous meetings. You know the ones you are not supposed to have. Will the Minister now disclosed what was discussed on that day?

If ‘we’ can follow what’s behind the Vaile’s how long do you think it will be until the Australian Public can see it.

What’s even more concerning is the going through the back door.

It’s sneaky and dishonest and unfair to people in the abattoir business.

At least the other lot stood up like men with their irritating smiles and tells their own bull.

I would be very concerned to see you become Prime Minister Mr. Rudd.

Not even because of your lack of Animal Welfare or fair Competitiveness in the market. No Sir Not Even That.

It’s the sneaky unanswerable way you have tried to slip one over the Australian Public.

That’s before your are elected.

To be continued

Yes we ALL know about the WA State of political boys
club however I think you have just made one of the biggest political mistakes of your life.


She is a Labour Minister. So yes Kevin Rudd - As "you said." You understood these things and you would not be banning live exports.

What you didn’t tell the Australian public Kevin was you were going to MAKE SURE it wasn’t even open for fair business competitiveness. That may have made you popular then but its going to come back and bite you on the bum.

No doubt you have to take care of political biz supporters but this is beyond the PALE

One of your favourite sayings! Is it not?

Please read Mr. Rudd the Proposal put forth by the Muslim Leaders of Australia working with many others.

You might even come up with a policy that gains you even more votes.

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While you are there May I respectfully suggest you look at this and remember there are “many of us who have to vote also”.

As a matter of fact there are more of us than there are them.
Think carefully.

Here What the People Think>

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Cruelty to Animals. Australian Public So NO.

Open Abattoirs In "This" Country!
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Ring The bells!