Senator Steve Fielding - Leader of Family First

I would like to know how many Aussies would shop at a supermarket that only sells 100% Australian made and owned products.
IGA clearly labels Aussie companies with the group called fightback for Australia.

If you would like to see a supermarket chain that only sells 100% Australian then please sign this petition to be sent to IGA management.

http://www.gopetition.com.au/petitions/congratulate-iga.html

I lived in NZ when they had Import Quotas.

Everything cost twice as much, cars were built in Australia, tested, knocked down into parts, boxed, sent to NZ to be re-assembled (badly in many cases) to adhere to local content rules.

Businessmen who knew people or could find funds to “help” politicians would get import licenses for TVs say which they could sell on at 100% markup.

People in NZ now complain about how things are now, too many imports etc. - But they forget HOW BAD things are when you let protectionism run wild.

Aussiefarmer:

I think the IGA needs to sell generic products just to stay in the race.

Over the last year or so, generic products have been heavily promoted in the media.  This is primarily because big corporations such as Coles and Woolworths wish to knock out Australian producers and manufacturers in favour of cheap products from Asia.

If generic products were to be removed from the shelves at IGA stores, it would mean the end of this Australian owned company.

There are many people in the community who can no longer afford to buy name brands because of high rents and housing prices, increases in land rates and taxes, and the price of utilities and fuels.  Newstart and Widow Allowance were also not increased in the May 2009 budget.

Kevin Rudd wants an Asia/Pacific Economic Union by 2020.  This will automatically bring with it a reduction of wages and living standards (already occurring), and a neo-communist government taxing us to the eyeballs in the new Carbon Based Corporate-run Economy.

I agree with lorikeet. IGA is already doing enough to promote Australian brands and bring some fairness to consumers. Woolworths and coles have continually shown that they are only interested in profits and squeeze Australian farmers on prices with their market dominance. Farmers get paid pitiful prices for what they produce, and have basically no choice but to sell to the big two in most cases.

What we need is a system to guarantee a certain percentage of retail price going to farmers to ensure our local industry stays viable.

Yes, that’s an excellent suggestion, hankscorpio.

Perhaps you might be interested in watching “Landline” to find out just how much our farmers are being squeezed out of the market and off their land.

I have posted quite a lot of stuff on Barnaby’s Blog which you might find interesting, particularly in relation to moves afoot to wipe out the livestock industries and get the farmers off their land so big corporations can take over.

I think you might be particularly interested in the discussion regarding Mad Cow Disease.

I’m also very concerned about large corporations taking over hospitals, aged care centres and schools.  Their modus operandi is to get the maximum government funding, charge high fees, and then ration everything.  The more large corporations are allowed to control everything, the more the government, small business people, farmers and ordinary citizens go broke!

This goes to show just how mis-managed is our country.  Bloody politicians seem to only be interested in winning elections while thwe country goes down the gurgler.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/201007/s2964930.htm

Audio.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/

How much of our country/resouces do we own ?

If you want to buy Australian products
Link… 
http://www.OnlyOz.com.au  Buy online.

Peggyb:

If you take a look at Barnaby’s Blog, you will get a good idea of the various methods being used to get our farmers off the land, so big corporations can take over.  I have posted a lot of it myself. 

The Labor Party has signed several global agreements since WWII which sell us out as a nation.  Coalition have never torn them up or thrown them on a bonfire, and Howard privatised Telstra.  Now they feel free to lock us into 2 year contracts without our consent.  I blasted them, don’t worry!

We are locked into a global redistribution of populations and wealth (just look around you at the starving and homeless people on food queues, and the multi-cultural society).  In the end, we will all be living like peasants and slaves, while global banks rule us.

If you have rental property, Labor and the rest of the Green/Communist mob will devise many ways to take it off your hands at the lowest price possible, to house the homeless or sell it to developers to build the expensive high rise cubbyholes we will be expected to inhabit in the future.  This could be through Heritage Listing, high rates of taxation, huge rates and land taxes, rezoning.  I’m sure the govt has many more ideas up its sleeve. 

As for your superannuation, big corporations are definitely out to get it.  The Macquarie Group/Bank wants it to pay for your Aged Care.  They now want the govt to put a huge bond on High Care as well.  (Some places are already charging $350,000 or more for Low Care.)  They also want you to contribute to an Old Age Fund, on top of your Health Fund contributions.  In the future, we can expect to be taxed almost out of existence.  Superannuation contributions are set to rise from 9% to 12% over the next few years.  I sometimes wonder if Paul Keating (Labor) brought in compulsory superannuation to empower banks to rob us blind at every opportunity, so they could rule at a global level, and now they want 25% more!

Please, everyone, vote for the smaller conservative parties (DLP, CEC, CDP, FF) and independents YOU have checked out on your House of Representatives ballot paper.  Number every square carefully, and put Liberals after the small conservatives as a firewall against the many Green/Communist parties.  Put The Greens last, Labor second last, and the Liberal Democrats, Socialist Alliance and Australian Democrats below Liberals.

Read up on Agenda 21, the Lima Declaration and Free Trade Agreements (controlled by the WTO) and then everyone will be more in the picture.

Recently someone asked me if I would like to plant an orange grove.  I told them they had to be kidding (which they were).  For many years, we have imported huge amounts of orange juice from Asia, putting our own farmers out of business.  A lot of orange trees also had to be removed from Australian orchards, because of Citrus Canker.  How do we know that someone being paid by the third world didn’t “canker” them deliberately?  We have imported Californian oranges for 20-30 years, and the last I heard, China wanted to sell us those as well.  Hot off the press only about a week or so ago, was an intention to buy even more juice from Brazil.

For decades, we have been governed using a Crush Australia Policy.  Agenda 21 is likely to cause starvation, with large tracts of land being turned over to the possums.  Some graziers here in Australia have already switched to growing wheat, because they know of the various methods being used to wipe out the livestock industries.  I could post so much more, but most of it could be read on Barnaby’s Blog where I have been busily posting for weeks.

Whoops!  I forgot about the Senate paper.  It has now become so long that nearly anyone could make a mistake, and I think that it is safer to vote above the line.  This will also prevent sick and elderly people from fainting in long queues.  Choose your favourite small conservative party or independent block, which you will have carefully checked out to ensure they don’t support a Carbon Trading Scheme, which is clearly only connected with a Financial Climate Change.

Then you can go home knowing you did your best for yourself and all Australians.

Does IGA also donate a % of it’s profits to local community projects and charities.  If they removed the profit making Aussie brands would this also dig into money that helps the local community?

Each week our supermarket trolley has around 80% Australian in it.  I grow 20-30% of our vegetables depending on the season. It’s fairly easy to check out if it is made here. Most people don’t.  Tomato plants (heirloom stock) you can get sent via the mail from places like Diggers (Australian owned and they taste great-).

A major supermarket stopped stocking Australian blueberries and started getting in NZ imports. It’s very easy to email or just speak to the manager and get the message that you want Australian, SOME will pay attention. Australian Blueberries are back on our shelf at the place we shop. A whole 15c more but in 2010 15c is cheap for the feel good value.
Gryph

gryphonoz:

It sounds as if you are doing a good job, but here is an interesting observation I made about grocery prices.  On current affairs programs, generic products have been very greatly promoted.  In 2009, the general price of food rose by about 15%, but a lot of generic products rose by 25%.  The name of the game is to gradually replace Australian products with generic products, while bumping up the prices.

The Supa IGA at Mitchelton, Brisbane sometimes has a program where it gives out tokens to be placed in little bins.  You can choose from a number of options, but some of them would not pass muster as charities.  If I ever get any tokens, I generally put them in the bin for Meals on Wheels rather than those allocated to Child Care or Sports.

Lorikeet, If you have the time this audio is well worth listening to:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/
Be outraged !!!

Thanks, Peggyb:

I will try to get to it later in the day.  I also noticed there is an article following the one on agriculture which relates to our criminal justice system.  I was recently on a jury and found there were some problems myself.  I will read or listen to both and then get back to you.  You might like to look at Barnaby’s Blog where I have tried to describe the methodology which has led to the rise of banks, at least according to my own observations.

Have a nice day!

Peggyb:

I have now read most of the interview about our food security.  None of this stuff is really new to me.  You will notice “The Coming Famine”  is published by the CSIRO.  In my view, no government agency or global agency is to be trusted.  The CEO of the CSIRO told us last year that we are already able to grow enough food for 60 million people, despite drought conditions, and that the government intends to export most of it.

The fear mongering we see here is probably the latest attempt to wipe out the livestock industries.  It is certainly not necessary to feed animals grain.  I have already suggested that the outer leaves, skins, husks and tops from vegetables could be processed into animal feed.  As it is, a huge percentage of our banana crops are added back to the soil because nobody wants them due to size or shape.  This could easily change.

Cotton farmers on “Landline” said they could now only grow 1/3 as much cotton due to water restrictions and price.  I also heard that makers of alternative fuels are switching from using sugarcane and corn to using the stalks of various grains which are unsuitable for human consumption.

Farmers are being deliberately driven from their land using various Green agendas.  I think the Lima Declaration & Plan of Action on Industrial Development and Co-operation signed by Gough Whitlam in 1975 is relevant here.  Others have been getting the Development, while we have got the co-operation.  Also relevant is Agenda 21 and the plan to make everyone live in tiny expensive high rise apartments along the railway lines.

I already knew that the Middle East had a huge stake in Australian cattle, which they send to Indonesia for fattening using grain.  I am told the USA now has $100 million muslims.

Some of the predictions about exploding population are probably scaremongering.  Despite having a Baby Bonus in place, the birth rate in Australia is still below ZPG at 1.9 births per couple.

China has had a One Child Policy for 30+ years, down from an average of 6 children per couple.  Parts of China are now becoming very westernised, and I predict that the future will hold greater access to the contraceptive pill in the back blocks of China and also many other third world countries.  Over the next 20 to 30 years, I expect the population of China to crash due to contraception and ongoing effects of the One Child Policy, as the middle aged and elderly pass on.

Starvation in Zimbabwe has been brought about by Kissinger getting rid of the white farmers, together with human rights abuses by Robert Mugabe.  The USA has also sold them weapons instead of food, leading to mass starvation and people blowing one another away.  Part of the global agenda is also to redistribute world populations and wealth, and then eliminate race, religion and to most intents and purposes, gender.  A healthy amount of immigration and internal conflicts helps to achieve this more quickly.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of reading this crap about shortages of oil, natural gas and coal.  I’m sure I read that the whole ocean floor has coal deposits with LNG floating on top.  Since Planet Earth is a fully self-contained but renewable constantly changing resource, the only non-renewable source of energy is the sun.

As for food shortages, better farming methods are being developed all of the time.  Biochar (recycled green waste) can be applied to crops to increase yield.  Farming methods are also changing to become more environmentally friendly.

As for meat alternatives, there is now a company known as Quorn which sells frozen vegetarian meals which have a protein content made from a fungus. 

I also recently saw a TV report which said scientists can now turn a single pig into enough artificial meat to feed a million people!

We are being sold a load of BS so large corporations and government can tax us to the eyeballs, and to get the farmers off the land so large corporations can take it.  I’m sure this is part of Agenda 21.  The DLP say we will be subjected to Global Corporate Socialism.  I call it Green Global Corporate Neo-Communism.

I think a lot of Liberals are not to be trusted.  They support corporatisation and have never destroyed neo-communist global agreements, declarations and treaties all of which were signed by Labor.

Mothballing land is an interesting concept, but it is actually happening, purely to get Aussie farmers out.  The government wants to remove meat from our diets to make us more compliant.  They know a peasant diet (high in carbs) is far more suited to future low wages, working and living conditions. 

Here in Queensland, Labor is expected to lose one Senate seat.  I am hoping the DLP will pick up that seat and not The Greens.  The DLP will also be running a number of candidates for the House of Representatives.  I think they are a good alternative to Labor and Liberals, since they are a centrist party which doesn’t support a carbon trading scheme or continuing sellout of our farmers, small business people and workers.  No one hates large corporations more than them!:coolgrin:

Sorry I forgot about the Free Trade Agreements which are linked to control by the World Trade Organisation.  They are part of the globalisation agenda designed to bring us all down to the lowest common denominator, by subtracting democracy and fair trade from the equation.

As for foreign debt, according to the parliamentary records, it has increased exponentially over the last 20+ years, which seems to concur with the signing of Agenda 21 by Paul Keating (Labor) in 1992.

This is the Crush Australia Policy in action.

I strongly suggest you read Barnaby’s Blog, particularly those posts relating to the Meat Industry and Vegetation Laws.