Gillards anti-protectionist stance costing Australia BIG $$$

[mellie]

http://www.qsia.com.au/important-notice ... 4-08-2011/

Compare the figures for yourself ...

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/seafoodindustry.html

Now in excess of 70% of Australian seafood is imported...read this concerning concerns regarding our poor food labeling.

http://www.ntsc.com.au/pdfs/NSIA_submission_may2010.pdf

[boxy]

So, you've got no answer. Your first link says that banning fishing in certain areas will mean more fish will need to be imported. No explanation there as to why someone would export premium seafood, from here, to an region where the price is lower, though.

Seems that you are bullshitting, after all.

[IQS.RLOW]

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...

You mean like how you could buy a Holden Monaro rehashed in the US or England for 2/3rds the price they sell them here?

Like I could have a feed of Aus/NZ seafood in a hotel in China for 1/5th of the price I can here?

Go join your unwashed mates at Occupy so you can contribute to the stupid

[mellie]

Australia has trade agreements with specific nations, ie we import seafood to Hong Kong under MoU...similarly, the signing of a wine MOU between Australia and Hong Kong governments in April 2009 has further enhanced the wine trade and related services promotions between the two places.

Again, you really need to get out more.

http://www.austrade.gov.au/Food-and-bev ... fault.aspx

Refer to the CSIRO seafood import protocols, re the MoU.

http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pd ... report.pdf

You are so daft, it annoys me that I have to state the obvious only so you can log out and disappear without having responded further.

Boxy, you are a coward.

[mellie]

Hey retard, heres one for the road...

http://www.daff.gov.au/about/annualrepo ... ss-markets

In international relations, MoUs fall under the broad category of treaties and should be registered in the United Nations treaty database. In practice and in spite of the United Nations' Legal Section insistence that registration be done to avoid 'secret diplomacy,' MoUs are sometimes kept confidential.

Funny, must have slipped Labors mind, you know, registering these MoU's with the UN...or is it that they aren't available to the public for scrutiny?

Wake up twit.

[mellie]

Labor like their international MoU's... if what they are doing is ethical, then why are these MoU's being withheld from the Australian public and international community treaty register?

Theres no way on earth you can go on defending this, this government must be held accountable for it's actions...including the ones they would rather not tell us about.

Australian jobs and industry is at stake.

Does this bother you Boxy, or are you too busy collecting the dole to have noticed whats being sold off-shore from your own backyard?

Go throw another slimy unlabeled imported prawn on the barby...you tambourine bashing mong.

[mellie]

Australia's quarantine watchdog had found small residues of banned antibiotics in one-third of the samples of prawns, fish, crabs and eels from China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.-The Australian, 2007

And since then, numerous counties have raised concerns about imported seafood from the above countries, all accept Australia who are seemingly turning a blind eye to it.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/fi ... 1114106484

Time to boycott foreign produce, we are the people, we have the power to bring about positive change.

[mantra]

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...

It could be believed especially if you look at meat. I like rump steak which is usually around $20 per kg - yet occasionally supermarkets will sell off export rump (same quality) for nearly half the price. Obviously they would still make a profit, even at that price so you can assume they're selling the same meat overseas for a much lower cost.

I can't see the logic in selling our produce overseas so cheaply, yet to buy the same product in Australia it costs double.

It has to do with the FTA's we're signed up to with so many nations.

I won't touch seafood from any of the Asian countries either, but then again much of our local produce isn't of a high standard - especially with Sydney Water being one of our biggest polluters.

Sydney Water is a $2.2 billion-a-year business, making it very valuable to the government's budget. But the fact the organisation charged with overseeing such a precious commodity is a huge polluter of the state's waterways is cause for great concern.

The level of pollution caused by Sydney Water, which includes leaching of contaminants such as lead, zinc and mercury, dwarfs that of industrial ventures more readily perceived as environmental villains.

In five years, Sydney Water was guilty of more than 1000 breaches of its pollution licences, yet has not been the target of one prosecution.

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/editorial/p ... 1mdah.html

[mellie]

Theres cause for multi resistance concern re- the use of banned antibiotics in imported produce.


When a bout of tonsillitis turns into strep-pneumoniae, sepsis, and begins threatening the lives of otherwise perfectly healthy young adults who have been consuming foreign produce, (unbeknown to them or their parents due to inadequate product labeling) laced with the very same family of antibiotics their GP's might prescribe to treat simple throat infections in a developed country.


Gone will be the days when taking a couple of Panadol and getting on with the job....or having a day or two off work/school to recover from a seemingly benign throat infection is the norm
____________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Teacher,

Please excuse my otherwise healthy child from school for 2 months due to a 'Superinfection' normally seen in the immunocompromised, frail and elderly (ie Cancer & AIDS patients) due to her/him having formed a resistance to prescription antibiotics after having consumed imported seafood from his school cafeteria thats being treated with banned antibiotics.

Regards,

Parent.


http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2011C00220

[mellie]

Trading with 3rd world countries under MoU a good thing?