Australia is one of few countries that doesn’t need to subsidise farming. We have a world class advantage in agriculture, and we are lucky to have our food produced locally. That’s no mean feat.
It is clear that Labor governments don’t see farmers as the working man, more of a threat to their political agenda.
By banning the export of live sheep by sea, they are saying to ALL Australian businesses: ‘feel-good rhetoric’ and ideology is more important than reality.
There is no doubt that this will seriously damage WA, but it also poses an over-supply risk to the Eastern States, reducing the value of our WHOLE sheep industry.
The popular talking point from Labor was ‘this is a dying industry’, but this isn’t true. Because in recent years there has been less sheep in Eastern Australia and so WA sent their sheep our way and got a good price for it. Otherwise, they’d be sending sheep offshore as usual.
This ban does is takes away that market freedom, and it will have knock-on effects for all sheep farmers across the nation.
When the Labor government spruik a ‘Future Made in Australia’, its disappointing to see that Australian agriculture isn’t included under their mandate.
It’s disappointing to see that they will use 22 billion dollars of your money, to fund their green agenda.
If Labor was serious about a Future Made in Australia, they’d look to our real natural advantages in agriculture and natural resources.
Why aren’t we using Australian wool? Why aren’t we exporting more of our excess fruit and veg instead of wasting it? Why are we demonising consumption of red meat?
Farmers wrestle with enough unknown variables, the government of the day shouldn’t be another.
