Quote:All the more reason to reopen the live export trade, and/or let Indonesians run their own abattoirs in Australia.
Gandalf, do you support free trade? Why is this not simply a reason to reject these demands by the Indonesian government, rather than allowing them to compete on an even less even field?
Quote:This has nothing to do with halal job discrimination on the domestic market though. But any opportunity to demonise Australian muslims for having their own domestic halal industry, no matter how irrelevant eh FD.
Are you suggesting the criticism is unfair? Would you have preferred I started a new thread?
Quote:You seriously worried about that amount?
It is $27000 per business per month. Sounds like a significant amount to me.
Quote:The aus government gives Indonesia aid in the hundreds of milions each year.
So we can easily apply pressure to get rid of these absurd demands on our business?
Quote:That's just business.
Not in this country.
Quote:Nobody is forced to do it.
It is required by the Indonesian government of people wishing to do business with them. If you are suggesting they are free to go broke instead, then yes you are correct. What is your point?
Quote:The Australian Government put all kinds of expensive red tape in the way of Indonesian businesses trying to export food into Australia.
Such as? Does any of it involve forcing them to donate enourmous sums of money to religious organisations that have nothing to do with their business? Is any of it effectively a religious tax on Indonesian business?
Quote:Do yo think Australian abattoirs are allowed to export meat into Israel willy-nilly? If so think again.
I have suggested plenty of times that you find something equivalent demanded by Jews. So far you have come up with nothing.
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