Good things do come out of bad, and I’m actually starting to think that while the live export dramas seemed like the straw that would break the camel’s back, it has in fact worked to unite primary producers across northern Australia like no issue ever has before. Apart from getting rid of cruel behaviour by a handful […]
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The silver lining on the live export ban cloud
June 10th, 2011Live Export Ban promoted by Get Up!
June 10th, 2011Someone drew my attention to the recent change in the tone on the Get Up! forum regarding live export. Many people are now adding comments saying they are dismayed at the banning of Australian live exports – the effect on cattle, the effect on primary producers, and the fact that it will do absolutely nothing […]
A personal response regarding the 4 Corners story on live exports
June 10th, 2011A letter from Jean Robbins, which basically sums up the personal affect of the 4 Corners story on rural residents: After the 4 Corners story aired last week I was horrified, shocked, numb. One part of me was struggling to cope with the images that I had seen. The other part of me very quickly […]
A letter to 4 Corners regarding the live export story
June 10th, 2011An excellent letter, full of important points and facts on the Indonesian side of Australian live export system: I must introduce myself. My name is Scot Braithwaite and my life has basically revolved around live export since I was 10 years old. I was unloading cattle boats in Malaysia at the age of 13. I have worked […]
A letter regarding 4 Corners Live Export programme
June 9th, 2011Over the last week, many people I know have contacted me about the ban on Australian live exports. They are absolutely devastated by the whole situation – the cruelty to the cattle and then the hysterical public reaction since – some of which has been vitriolic, to put it mildly. This is precisely the anti-livestock industry drama that animal […]
Impact of Australian live export ban – AACo share trading halt
June 8th, 2011The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has asked for a halt on share trading until Friday, while the company assesses the impact of the live export ban. The AACo is Australia’s oldest pastoral company and now Australia’s largest, with landholdings of more than 1% of the continent’s landmass and almost 500,000 head of cattle. Indonesia is Australia’s largest export […]
Australia’s livestock exports and animal rights extremists
June 8th, 2011If animal rights groups were first and foremost intent on preventing any cattle being treated cruelly in Indonesian abattoirs then why on earth did they film in March and sit on the film footage for several months? Why not just put it straight onto national news to ensure there was immediate action? How many cattle […]
Australia’s live export trade
June 7th, 2011How many of the people calling for the banning of Australian livestock exports, will forgo holidays in Indonesia (in particular, Bali) by way of protest? How many Australians care enough to protest loudly about the way prisoners are treated in Indonesian prisons? How many of the people complaining about Australia’s live export trade, continue to […]
‘A Little Aussie Battler’ article by Greg Bearup, Good Weekend Magazine
June 6th, 2011Another classic quote regarding representation of rural Australia in urban media: ‘But this being Queensland, the owner, a stubborn 80-year-old grazier who’d live on the block all his life, refused to sell to the government at any price.’ The article concerns the preservation of the red-finned blue-eye fish whose natural territory is confined to a […]
Keeping chooks in the backyard
June 1st, 2011The rift between urban residents and rural residents has been steadily growing. Primarily because in Australia’s largest cities, increasing numbers of people have never had anything to do with food-producing animals (and perhaps not even any kind of domestic pet), and little or no garden (that may not be the owner’s hands-on job to maintain, […]