Good afternoon to you (again) BANJO...

You know my friend, that's the part that really, really makes me angry. Purposely and intentionally destroying all these mature fruit trees, for no other reason, they're considered redundant ? To my small brain, that is criminal !

I'm no arboriculturist but I couldn't imagine for a moment that you plant a fruit tree today, tomorrow your harvest it's yield ? Whoever was responsible for causing all these fruit trees destroyed, purely because the fruit couldn't be used or utilised, should be consigned to oblivion !

Thank you BANJO for highlighting these disgusting events, events that we, us Aussies, should be damned well ashamed of ourselves, for the wanton destruction of mature fruit trees. I have always realised we were an idiot country...No, I'll reword that, we're LED by idiots, now we have, proof positive of it !

o sung wu,

Speaking as someone from a farming background and my family still have interests, without income the farmers cannot afford to maintain the trees which would quickly become reservoirs of disease, affecting other farms. Hopefully the land can be put to some other use.

However the risk is always borne by the farmer. While keyboard experts on farming like AWU's boss Peter Howes get paid anyhow and have comfortable superannuation waiting. Howes has said that family farms are 'outdated'.

Hi there ONTHEBEACH...

Is there no limit to their stupidity ? It's been my understanding that Cubbie Station was a vital water resource for the entire region ?
Notwithstanding, it had accumulated debts in excessive of $320 million the Company should have remained in Australia hands at all costs.

If the Chinese or any other peaceful nation, wish to purchase 100,000 hectares of purely desert country for the purpose of turning it into profitable and arable land, that's fine. But Cubbie ? Seems those in Canberra are so insulated, so nonchalant, so apathetic to what's going on, it's so annoying. Actually, it's absolutely infuriating !

Perhaps we should simply affix a sign, to the first counter seen, by the thongs of international passengers, as they arrive at our International Airports, reading; 'For Sale' 10% Deposit, best offer accepted ?

All the while our country is slowly suffocating, due to this endless bungling and misfeasance by our politicians ! Yet most of these sloth like creatures, laughingly calling themselves 'statesmen', quietly luxuriate in their decorated, panelled offices. Far away from all the troubles, dreaming of their own prodigious pensions and their many incalculable benefits, so befitting their 'station' in public life ?

No surprises here - Abbott has a long history of lying and there will be plenty more to come.

Even during his election campaign he said was going to spend his first week as PM on aboriginal land and his own campaign policy "pamphlet" said that they supported the vehicle industry and that there would be no cuts - and so on.

Hockey said that sending away unaccompanied refugee children would happen "over his dead body" but of course that was said when he was in opposition. Despite his protestations about "the age of entitlement" being over, his snout is still deep in the trough when it comes to travelling to inspect his rural investment property at our expense.

I'm enjoying the spectacle of all the frothing-at-the-mouth anti-ALP zealots now frantically trying to defend their own inept messiah and his team of clowns.

Not to be unexpected, the cries from the boardroom gluttons ably supported by their political acolytes in the shape of Abbott and Hockey. "Workers are too well off!"
I hear the shrill cry of my fellow poster Shadow Minister "While the wages are not hugely significantly higher than award, the 'conditions'" Its those dreaded 'conditions'!
I ask what award? certainly not the "Boardroom Gluttons Award" where pay packets running into the millions is the order of the day! The average CEO in all Australian businesses is now pocketing $1.9 million pa (2012) and those lucky enough to have their snouts in the trough at one of the top 100 companies are pocketing an average $4.7 million (2012). With the 'top gun' racking in a cool $21 million. SM are these pay rates with or without those dreaded 'conditions'?
It should be noted that "Award" rates of pay and associated 'conditions' are to be the MINIMUM legally allowed, as determined by an independent arbitrator. Fortunately for workers these minimums are not being determined at the moment by the likes of Abbott and Hockey...but give them time.

The problem with left whingers is that they deliberately misinterpret what Abbott says, and then call him a liar when he does what he says but not what the idiot left whingers thinks he said.

A case in point is a left whinger says he promised there would be no cuts to the vehicle manufacturers. And that's exactly what he did. What the whinger considered a cut was not meeting Labor's promise for an extra hand out of $500m. So Abbott is not the liar, the whinger is.

Another hypocritical attack by the left whingers is the attack on CEOs of companies whose guidance has made them profitable, yet remain silent on actors and sportsmen who often get far more.

The reality is that you pay for talent, and not all people are made equal. If you hire a twit as a CEO you will go bankrupt.