Questions need to be asked because it is transparently
obvious that this is an attempt at vote-getting and not
for the good of agriculture. Barnaby Joyce needs to be
questioned - and not allowed to get away with this blatant
vote-grabbing tactic.

cont'd ...

Still, perhaps the Main Stream Media does not find
it newsworthy to report on agriculture in the bush.
You'd think the independent media would pick up on
it though - and our own Broadcaster - the ABC?

I think it is very brave of Barnaby, moving a bunch of radical ratbag lefties into his electorate. Obviously anyone working for the ABC will be a Labor or ratbag Green voter, so will tend to reduce his margin, & could actually infect people of the electorate with ratbaggery by association.

If you want to highlight political corruption, try looking at the ridiculous windmills causing blackouts in South Oz, or at Turnbulls 50 billion deal with submarines. Rank vote buying by both sides, & really damaging for real Ozzies, not like this little would be storm in a tea cup you are trying to generate.

SR,

The question that you and your ABC have been playing with a dead bat is the rampant pork barrelling of Tony Windsor by a grateful Gillard who sold her arse to him.

"Planes are a fixture in the skies here, with BAE Flying Systems winning a six-year, $120 million, Australian Defence Force contract the other day to continue basic flying training at Tamworth. On Tuesday, Ms Gillard announced $20m in new funding for medical training facilities in Windsor's home town and in nearby Armidale. Mobbed by schoolchildren, the Prime Minister opened a $10m sports dome in Tamworth, half of which was paid for by Labor's economic stimulus dollars. She and Windsor also visited Tamworth Hospital to promote a $120m allocation for a redevelopment and a $31.6m grant for a regional cancer centre, both projects financed by the $5 billion Health and Hospitals Fund.

NSW has been allocated $1.115bn from the HHF. Although New England is one of 48 federal seats in the state, its $151.6m represents 13.5 per cent of all NSW HHF grants. The following day, the House of Representatives partners travelled the 110km northeast to Armidale, where they flicked the switch on the first mainland section of Labor's $36bn National Broadband Network - a project Windsor has fervently supported and which he cited as crucial to winning his support for Labor after last August's federal election stalemate."

With respect to the APVMA, this was established 22yrs ago to assume responsibility for over 5000 chemical registrations granted under earlier arrangements by Australia’s states and territories.

From an original list of over 300 chemicals that were nominated as potential candidates for review by stakeholders, that only 75 reviews have been completed over 22yrs, which with a huge staff is piss poor, especially as the research from the USA, the EU etc is freely available.

That a department responsible for agricultural chemical registration should be decentralised to a prime farming area rather than a city is hardly a novel idea. That many of these bureaucrats are threatening to leave this bloated department is a bonus, saving the country $ms.

The only beef that I have with Barnaby's bit of decentralization is that the relocated department was sent to an existing city; far better for it to have been relocated to a smaller town, such as Tenterfield, Glen Innes or Inverell.

It's about time that many more Government departments were relocated in a burst of real decentralization.

Why were Mr Joyce and his colleagues silent in 2015 when
the Australian Taxation Office shut offices in Port Macquarie,
Toowoomba, Grafton, Orange, Cairns, Launceston, Rockhampton,
Bendigo, Mackay, and Sale.

How come he's suddenly interested in moving offices out to
the bush?