Burke rejects allowing national parks cattle grazing

[meh_too]

Thoughts about the Feds not allowing cattle to graze in National Parks?

They stopped a whole industry because of animal abuse overseas, yet are quite happy to allow these animals to starve to death in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-16/burke-rejects-allowing-national-parks

[meh_too]

well said Silver

I heard on the radio that the Qld government asked the Feds as a courtesy, and are going to let the cattle feed in the National Parks regardless.

Are the cattle collateral damage in the blue between the State and Fed governments?

[silverfaun]

Abbott's new broom is tipped to disband the climate change monolith, abolish the $10 billion dollar green fund the Greens got, simplify & one stop shop projects & look to a 25 year plan for the Reef.

Rebuild our relations with our nearest neighbours & repair the damage to our export industries.

I hope he culls some of the environment mandarins & NPWS freeloaders as well.

We need a government who is responsible, not one who relies on "announceables" with no consultation then the fight that ensues because they haven't consulted. The "whatever it takes" mentality to cling onto power.

I have never seen a more incompetent government in my lifetime, historically not even  the Whitlam government was this bad, the Rudd/Gillard experiment has surpassed all others.

The damage they have done to themselves beggars belief, the damage they have done to the country is unforgivable.

The toxicity in the community is rife. I have never seen such vitriol from commentators from both sides regarding this government.

This is a chapter in Australia's history that will take decades to get over, years to have any trust in government & decades of painful rebuilding of the Labor party.

One only has to look at what happened in NSW & Qld, Labor reduced to a rump, ineffective & irelevent. This is what's facing Labor in all states now.

[silverfaun]

A great interview about the Green con job on Australia & the world by James Delingpole.

Some advice for Tony Abbott not to weaken towards the climate change alarmists.

http://www.2gb.com/article/abbott-take-tip-nigel-farage

[lakeland27]

abbott believes in global warming. greg hunt wrote his masters thesis on the topic (and pretends he didn't) the only reason they are scrapping things is for populist selfish reasons.

you've been had.

[lakeland27]

a QLD government facility has allowed cattle to die of thirst.

The Queensland Government says it could prosecute those responsible for the deaths of 46 cattle at a government research station in the state's north.

The heifers were found dead at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's Swans Lagoon facility near Ayr earlier this month.

Initial investigations suggest the cattle had been left in a holding paddock with no water after a muster at the station, and had died of thirst.

It is believed 30 head of cattle in the same paddock survived without water for several days.

Queensland Agriculture Minister John McVeigh says he is disgusted at the deaths, which he says he only found out about on Friday night.

the qld government allowed this to happen by sheer incompetent indifference. it makes a mockery of the politics its playing out on national parks..http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-19/probe-ordered-after-cattle-perish-without-water/4698746

[waterlilycat]

I thought the thing Labor bashed over Abbotts head for the last 6 years is he thought climate change was crap.

Now he seems to be the poster boy for climate change...go figure

[lakeland27]

I thought the thing Labor bashed over Abbotts head for the last 6 years is he thought climate change was crap.

Now he seems to be the poster boy for climate change...go figure

a poster boy ? that's a laugh. a man who actually accepts the science, has stated publicly that he believes a carbon trading mechanism is the best way.. and then pretends its all bs in order to cosy up to the far right of the LNP (and a little play acting for the public) so he can be PM.

that's not a poster boy ,that's a hypocrite .

[*crikey*mate*]

If the general consumer purchased more red meat (ie Beef and Lamb) wouldn't this help these farmers out?

Seems to me that they are just producing more than the market demands.

I could make 1000 bottles of jam, but if people buy peanut butter instead, what's the point? I either learn how to make peanut butter to generate the income I need/desire or I go broke.

Similarly, if the produce required to make the jam or peanut butter are not readily available or cost prohibitive, isn't this something I should think about before I decide to make the product?

It seems that the producers of the food have either found a source prepared to pay more money or they have downgraded/removed themselves from the market as conditions were not acceptable for them. Maybe it's something some of the dairy/cattle producers need to consider.

[silverfaun]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/last-minute-plea-for-cattle-grazing-on-protected-land/story-e6frgczx-1226647208839