Latest on Live Export & Odd Positions

As I type there's a a legal class action playing out as a result of the mad& overly brutal knee jerk reaction from the then Federal Labor government which resulted in the Live Export Ban.

Now WALabor has an Agriculture Minister who's been on the record as saying she wants Live export banned and shut down, but now she's minister you can expect tactical replies, not answers. Dodgeball has begun its new season in the Labor ranks.

But every now & then cracks appear in the door & we can get a glimpse as to what's the plan behind the closed door.

Now WALabor has for some time, even pre-election said "Transition to processed meat" and here we see in all the morning glory what they really mean.

SHUT DOWN THE LIVE EXPORT TRADE - 100%

Never mind there are not the facilities here or in the north to process the many hundreds of thousands of animals if LiveX was closed down.

Never mind there are not the staff to man the facilities that don't currently exist to kill & process the many hundreds of thousands of animals if LiveX was closed down.

Never mind there aren't enough markets to take all of the meat that would be processed by the facilities that don't exist by all the staff that aren't in this country.

Now if its all about jobs, Australian jobs there's no foreign workers, all Australian citizens?
Wow it just got harder. Not to mention all the investment required to get infrastructure and logistics support going.

All of this and yet either maintain or improve farmgate prices for producers?
I sense that its all achievable if produces diversify into unicorn production to complement the changed to chilled.

Now add onto the top of this mountain of idiocy, aside from some markets (i.e. customers) not wanting anything except live is getting this organised and paid for, that is being profitable. Currently feedlotting overseas, slaughtering & processing delivers a product about half the cost of Australian processed.

But it will all magically work. How?

Well here's one sure fire way of a win win situation. Get some skin in the game.
We can get the government to arrange a PPP.
A "Public Private Partnership" to own & run such a down stream idea. No look its easy. Everyone interested need only contact their Superannuation firm an allocate a portion of say 20-60% of their superannuation into the PPP and get it rolling and running ASAP.

If its such a great profitable idea the government would be made not to invest along with mums & dads and other WA citizens who want to turbo charge their super returns...

So why won't it happen? Simple, its a wallowing money pit of an idea which cannot replace all live markets with chilled or frozen.

But if the TRANSITION side are so adamant they should be pushing this PPP on a small scale and build from there. If they're to be believed, if they have any credibility and any intellectual integrity.

If "transition" is win-win and not just a hollow bout of lip service to attract inner city Greens type voters push the PPP and champion it to benefit the industry, the producers and the customers.

Waiting...waiting...tumbleweeds. Any movement that can be detected will be dodgeball swerves, nothing more.

Meantime I hope the NTC class action is highly successful.