HOORAY! The French are kickstarting the people's revolution.

French farmers light up government tax office.

 

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice. It is conformity."

theres a lot of pain amongst the farming community.
a young guy in my valley who worked 7 days a week from dawn to dusk, just couldn't keep the banks from the door . his wife left him and he ended up swinging from a rope in his shed.

still gives me nightmares.

such a solid wonderful Australian.

I have contacts in the NT and there are many similar stories.  A lot of it is to do with the devastation (financial devestation) suffered after live cattle were banned.

A couple of guys had established a really good program sending captured water buffalo (which do incredible damage to sensitive wetlands) back to Indonesia as part of the live cattle trade.

When the green senators stopped live cattle trade, these guys went broke and the buffalo are continuing the devestation of the wetlands.

So a heading greens support wetland destruction   may be appropriate.

really, a lot of this farmland is marginal and the farmers should be paid by the govt to be custodians, clear ferals, prevent weeds, fix soil erosion.

Sad when I hear about farmer suicide in Australia and they get only hatred from many groups.
Now with tonys throwing open the unis to market rates, there will be no vet schools in rural and regional Australia. I suppose all the vets will be rich city kids and they'll look after poodles and budgies.

More short sighted thinking from the authorities.

The only thing that stops most farmers in Australia rising up is sheer exhaustion

The French have guts, Australians have a yellow stripe down their back.  Oh wait, that's the mark sheep are given after being shorn.