Gillards anti-protectionist stance costing Australia BIG $$$

[mellie]

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3348075.htm


JULIE GILLARD: "I think it would be fair to say that opening up to the world was one of the best peacetime decisions any Australian government has ever made."

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Tell this to our local farmers who are faced with the prospect of having to compete with 3rd-rate imported produce and Fire Blight bitten apples arriving from New Zealand being sold for $2 a kilo.

Our food standards have declined, I personally wont eat or buy anything from China, and not because I am racist, but because their food standards are not as stringent as ours.

I would however buy produce from close neighbours, ie New Zealand, so long as it didn't stand to impinge on Australian farmers and our local industry.

With Gillard, it's a free for all, she wont be happy until we are importing much of our produce, and sending the best of what we produce ourselves off shore to be sold.

It's already happened!!

I got a shock when a friend of mine, who lives and works in Saudi Arabia advised the best Australian prawns he's ever eaten was in the middle east, he advised this is where our big banana prawns are going, the best seafood, produce... he bought a kilo of them for half the price you might expect to buy slimy old school prawns here in Australia, often imported.

Why may we not reap the spoils of our own toil?


Is this advancing Australia Fair?

[mellie]

Gillard needs to catch a flight back home with the Queen.

When it's clear, neither of them have any real regard for the long term prosperity of our forsaken country.

We wont be the lucky country for much longer if the rest of the world owns what it is that makes us lucky!

Ie, our natural and primary resources.

Think of this when you next throw a slimy imported prawn you have paid top dollar for on the barby in a pair of stubbies and a singlet made in China.

The proceeds benefiting their country, not ours.

Whats wrong with protecting what's dear to you, what serves to sustain future generations of Australians to come?

Julia Gillard is a UN-puppet, the WTO dictates to her how they want to do business, and the silly bitch jumps to the crack of their whip, just like the UN want her to pay a 10% Carbon 'rent' tax to them, after she inflicts this destructive carbon tax on us.

Ask Gillard to justify why the UN are deserving of 10% of Australia's Carbon-tax revenue.

All for a good cause apparently...yet to be advised, and only after the tax has been introduced, wink!

Gillard is selling Australia out from underneath us, and we are too laid-back and politically correct to question it at the risk of appearing racist, or discriminatory.

hahaha

It's a joke.

A joke our grandkids wont think is very funny at all as they slave themselves in quarries for the benefit of someone else's country.

We need to be discriminatory, and we need to be protectionist when it comes to our whoring ourselves off-shore.

[boxy]

he bought a kilo of them for half the price you might expect to buy slimy old school prawns here in Australia, often imported

Quite a marketing ploy, that... going to the expense of shipping prawns overseas to sell them at less than half the price you can sell them for locally. I wonder who the economics genius was who came up with that.





Or are you just bullshitting us, yet again, with made up anecdotal evidence

[mellie]

he bought a kilo of them for half the price you might expect to buy slimy old school prawns here in Australia, often imported

Quite a marketing ploy, that... going to the expense of shipping prawns overseas to sell them at less than half the price you can sell them for locally. I wonder who the economics genius was who came up with that.





Or are you just bullshitting us, yet again, with made up anecdotal evidence

It's a fact!

My friend works for Aerospace and is not inclined to talk shit.

And for what it's worth, neither am I.

I kinda leave that to the more experienced, (aka yourself) when it comes to shoveling shit for the gullible to swallow.

btw, did you think the reality of Australias best produce being shipped off-shore was an urban myth Boxy?

ha ha ha, you really need to get out more.

[mellie]

Speaking of Aerospace companies of Saudi Arabia... President Obama really is a "coffee pot" of hidden wonders isn't he.

Wry Smirks.

http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/saudi- ... phoon.html

[mellie]

Also, our health authorities should be more stringent with testing foreign pharmaceuticals.

Hint: Aldi Hedanol (Paracetamol) made in India.

Because our government aren't the only ones testing these inferior products finding their way onto our shelves.



http://www.prescriptiondrugs.com/articl ... elieve-809


Make sure your medication is Australian made, or produced in a country with stringent regulations.

[mellie]

Check to see if your foreign made medication is TGA approved.

https://www.ebs.tga.gov.au/ebs/ANZTPAR/ ... s?OpenView


Aldi's Hedanol isn't TGA approved.

Is subject to off-shore (India's in this case) therapeutic standards,(whatever they be) not ours.

If you are stupid enough to cheap-out and buy non-Australian products, pharmaceutical or otherwise ..then you deserve all you get.

This said, the less astute should be informed of our TGA standards, given many assume foreign made products comply with Australian standards, simply on account of them being allowed to find their way to our supermarket shelves.

Wrong!

[mellie]

DISCOUNT supermarket giant Aldi will begin stocking its shelves with $1 beers — including 80c cans of light — across the state from next year, despite objections from NSW Health.

My understanding is the product is 'brewed' in Australia, so this sounds ok, yes?

Risky scenario: a combination of both brewed-under-licence, and parallel importing?

In recent years imported beers have started to gain market share in Australia. The two Australian corporate brewers responded to this by signing license agreements with foreign brands to brew their beers here. However groups such as the Australian Consumers Association say that such beers should have clearer, more prominent labels to inform consumers.

Ok, Aldi beer might be brewed in Australia, but where was it manufactured, bottled then labeled?

Fancy a fermented beverage made from urine soaked wood shavings swept off a factory floor in Malaysia?

[mellie]

I would have thought Monk would have been right onto this!

[boxy]

So... tell me how this works, Mel. The prawning boat sells his best catch to an exporter, who ships it overseas, and sells it on to a wholesaler there, who then sells it on to a vendor, who can still afford to sell it for less than half what a supermarket could sell an inferior product, locally. Who makes money out of that?

Show me the money...