Ted O’Brien’s letter (Mudgee Guardian, December 15) ought be mandatory reading by every politician, notable the National Party representatives, who according to O’Brien have forsaken their origins and core principals, and now march in lock-step with their Liberal masters, contrary to the classic Kipling line “But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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As for NFF masquerading as a centre of policy for agriculture and farming, whilst peddling “Free market ideology” to the industry,
The NFF is more suited to represent investment bankers than Australia’s vital agriculture resource.
In 2005 the National Party Trade Minister Mark Vaile, in a state of irrational exuberance announced the signing of a “Free Trade Pact” with the United States, in the preceding nine years Australia has not sold an extra lamb chop!
Vaile in his exalted excitement forgot to mention that the US won the major prize, Australia got the consolation prize.
In the last few weeks the Trade Minister Andrew Robb who announced Australia’s greatest trade agreement with China, the minister claimed this would translate into billions of dollars into the Australian economy, the Coalition was full of praise for Robb and his team for this remarkable achievement, about the same time I came across a report by a leading Australian Trade consultant, the report claimed that a senior Chinese woman trade official told a number of Australian Trade Envoys “ the problem was that we (Aust) had nothing to trade in the free trade agreement, that we had already given it away everybody.”
Any one for a lamb chop!!