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Showing posts with label quarantine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quarantine. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Cost of inaction becomes too great

Intro

Anyone in farming knows that you have to be optimistic about the prospects of
the future and of your ability to succeed in farming, but crickey the government
isn’t making it any easier is it.

Anyone who knows me, knows that since 1999 I've raged on the issues around Customs and Australia's Quarantine and Inspection Services (AQuIS) who have demonstrated total ineffectiveness at protection Australia's national and border security.

Here is another comment on what is going on, on this topic...



Cost of inaction becomes too great.


Last week there were reports around that fire ants, that have only arrived here
in the last decade or so, will cost the Australian economy more than $40 Billion
in the next decade. Not bad when you realise the government’s inept border
security allowed them to arrive in the first place.


There were also reports that the government just decided to just give up fighting
one more pest that has arrived here, this time the Inferior Asian predatory bee
species - Given up? 


Why? 


They say it is getting expensive to fight the pest.


Mind you it is a pest that could wipe out Australia’s native and imported bee
species and if that happens decimate Australia’s agriculture that relies on bees
pollinating plants.


No doubt that will be expensive, but lets not forget that the government has
been shown where the problems and gaps are in their border security and they
keep allowing pests like these in because some paper shuffler maintains the line
that it is too expensive to actually stop these pests and diseases from actually
arriving...


…. Turn It Up.





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UNDERSTANDING BAR-STOOL ECONOMICS AND THE CARBON TAX
http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/03/bar-stool-carbon-tax-economic-modelling.html


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I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
Commercial plumbing maintenance, based in (not limited to) the Sydney area.

I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 

Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.



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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Government failing us on imports

Grant, 
for years you and I, and many others including many on your program, have talked about the dangers of our government regulators letting food imports into the country with a Quarantine and Inspection Service that is asleep on the job.

I'm one of many people who have presented evidence to numerous parliamentary inquiries about the failures of Customs and Quarantine and one of the really frustrating thing is that our government and its departments nod off, they say they are concerned and listening but ignore the hard evidence before them.

With the number of imports from the number of places and the number of known toxins in some of them, and the high danger to our national food security this is not an issue the government can just let slide but that is exactly what has been happening for many years.

The risk isn't just for the community, or primary producers but importers as well, those who are doing the right thing are getting a bad rap too.
Now we have frozen produce and fresh foods being sold on our shelves that have been tested by various independent scientists and found wanting.

Our government doesn't seem to want to upset our trading partners so it is the Australian public who is supposed to swallow foods that are dangerous to our local food security and dangerous to their family's health and well being … Turn It Up.




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The following submission was one of a number of submissions made before Commonwealth parliamentary committees
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Proudly supported by:

I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
Commercial plumbing maintenance, based in (not limited to) the Sydney area.

I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 

Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.



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Where to Listen:
Turn It UP Mike Segment can be heard 
on Radio 2SM and stations on the Super Network
Monday to Friday with Grant Goldman.
http://www.2sm.com.au
click on Grant Goldman and Listen Live online

How to Contact
To sponsor this segment on the 2SM
Super Radio Network and
online email me at
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