freediver wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2013 at 11:41pm:



Well you, nails, pansi and crook must absolutely wet yourself with excitement every time a business goes under of lays off a few hundred workers.

Always surprises me that people demand cheap and easy never accept the same from themselves; they demand a decent wage and to be treated with respect in the workplace, but would never consider doing that for other people.


I buy Australian and I buy quality, a lot of the time they are the same, I do not try and screw someone over for my own short term financial gain; and there in lays the difference between myself and you lot.

Bobby
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FD,
I am sure that 1000s of trees have been bulldozed & burnt.
You did make a good point about burning a green tree or stump -
maybe those trees had been bulldozed months before in the summer & were being burnt now?
You can't expect a short report to have every detail.

the shoit is really going to hit the fan when the west finally wake up to the fact that you cant globalise trade without globalising the labour market.

if australia doesnt free up its labor market, if labor dont stop supporting crazy , racist trade unions who want to buy cheaply off the sweat and toil of the asian, and borrow off the aasian to fund social service programs like free health care, ndis etc. which are not available to the asian.

we are all in this together now.
bob hawke and paul keating (rightly in my opinion) opened up free trade.  this means free trade in LABOUR as well. dont like the fact your job can be outsourced to india or china.

tough titties.  you should work harder and smarter than our neighbours, study harder at school and be more frugal

i welcome the arrival of our asian overlords who will hopefully whip this god awful ,lazy, whinging, pampered , OH and S crazy, penalty rate obseesed, nation into shape.

i hope to employ asians and see them feeding left over scraps to the racist overpaid selfish lazy australian worker who should soon be scrounging at the tip.

as dr phil says, there are 2 sides to every pancake and you are about to reap what you sewed, lazy fat bloated consumer society .

Free trade is to international economics what perfect competition is to national economics.
That is, it's an idealised situation which never has been nor probably never will be replicated in the real world.
Is the grocery trade in Australia producing a fair result for consumers or producers? No.
By being an icon of a free trading nation are we gaining a fair result for our consumers and producers? No.
Does that mean we shouldn't work towards a better trading world? No.
But we should be working the system more as others do rather than just working within the system.

Freediver,
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Dear FD,
I am convinced that the story about those trees is true.
It happens all the time as farmers can't compete with imported products.

We are losing our food security as well.

I find your cynicism disturbing.


forgiven

namaste

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I am happy to accept that trees were bulldozed. The explanation given is most likely crap. It fails the common sense test. Once you have the trees planted and producing fruit, you have already sunk a lot of the costs. It would not go from financially viable to plant the trees and raise them, to being financially unviable to harvest from existing trees. Chances are one of the farmers had some trees at the end of their useful life, and decided the images of them being bulldozed would be a good chance for yet another ACA whingefest. One thing is for sure - ACA is not going to ask the hard questions that might undermine a simple story with good footage.

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We are a net food exporter, without even trying, and that is not going to change. What does that mean to you?

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It is not as disturbing as your naivety. What are you doing even watching ACA? Are you a bored housewife or something?

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Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Have you contacted ACA about it yet? Though they might be too scared to go after the big end of town.

freediver wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2013 at 3:46pm:


No need  ! I live in a suburb full of chinese who can only afford to buy property here. All of the traditional aussies have moved out to the bogun suburbs with high unemployment rates. The pollies have already sold us out

Bob Hawke is the national real estate agent for Australia

Labor will be tossed out into the political rubbish bin at the next election and will become extinct like the democrats. One thing people don't like is to be treated like a second rate citizen after paying taxes for all of their working life. The other thing they don't like is having their intelligence insulted by lying politicians.

freediver wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2013 at 7:17pm:



What about the Melbourne AGE & Herald Sun?
The Australian & SMH are both right wing papers but
I have also quoted from them too.