At the Consitutional Convention the speeches were mostly highly charged with excess cringe factor because everyone pro Republic was struck down with "Founding Father Syndrome". All jostling for position with what they hoped was the most remarkable speech that would be most remembered amongst them all, therefore cementing them in as pivotal pioneers, great players in the new era that would be ushered in.
Nearly a quarter of a century later we're still a consititutional monarchy, we're still not a laughing stock of the world, still not controlled by The House of Windsor nor the House of Lords. There is no real advantage now lost not any great disadvantage being suffered by us staying as a member of the Commonwealth. Had we converted to a Republic mainly letterheads, flag & Head of State would have changed & not much else. It was a much ado about nothing. The fact we can become a Republic without England's permission or indeed the Royal Family's permission shows we are only in a constitutional monarchy by choice and it makes very little practical difference.
So too we see Live Export now being wheeled out again. We see some people wheeling out the same tired arguments & some new ones. Some of the rural players now pushing for a Live Export Ban I think are the new crop of duds suffering from Founding Father Syndrome.
So why ban it?
1) Because its a cruel trade?
Based on what, the vision & photographs a Live Export crew member took & was paid a lot of money for. I was told it exceeded $100,000. Well beyond his crewman's salary. I recollect it being further sullied as he'd offered to make it look much worse than it was. We don't know if he already had.
Thing to remember...the trade has gone through a massive transformation. We have ESCAS, have for a long time. There are vets on board. Shipping seasons are restricted to certain times of the year. There are fans & sensors with monitoring on every deck. Our overseas competitors doing Live Export...not so much.
And if we leave the industry many of the Live Export buyers have already stated they will just have to by from other Live Export sources. Like South America with an extra 5 weeks at sea, no ESCAS ar all, no reporting to regulators at all. Shipping can happen all year round. Seems a bit cruel to remove the industry best standard & deliver it to other sub standard countries. (?)
2) Because its immoral?
Each time this pops out it takes less than 5 minutes of me asking them questions to find out its not actually moral or immoral it's just their view and thats that.
Not exactly a reason to end a vital export trade.
3) Because Australian jobs can be created?
Odd, I know of several abattoirs that are now closed & others that don't have more than more than one shift operating and none operating with 3 shifts (that is operating 24/7). Bear in mind, a abattoir set up for Lamb is a bit different to one set up up for ewes or wethers or cattle or goats, or pigs. Ideally you really need a dedicated lamb chain. Another would need to be a dedicated heavy wether chain. Even if every abattoir in WA were to be recommissioned tomorrow, could source enough staff to run them on one to two shifts a day they could not replace Live Export numbers.
So its short on infrastructure to slaughter, process, pack and cold store it. Its short of the staff ability & would take 1-2 years to train & build a skilled workforce. At 4-5% unemployment rate now, there is a massive staff shortage nationwide in most industries...so where are these abattoir workers coming from? But wait, there's also live truck transport infrastructure present but no where near enough Cold Storing Freight from abattoirs to ports available to handle even 20% of the new massive amounts of export chilled & frozen. Nor the staff to manage it in storage or to drive it and load ships.
4) Because new markets can be developed to replace it?
Well I was at the meeting in Katanning when Minister McTiernan said this. Still waiting. Has there been any massive growth in Chilled & Frozen Exports? Some, not above organic increases though. In fact the WALabor Platform says they will develop new markets. They haven't done much, but it also says they will only develop new replacement markets. That's market distoration & manipulation. That is a very big no-no for any Government, VERY BIG NO-NO!!!
It also says it will push & pressure foreign governments to lessen it's reliance on Live Product & not spend any of their own money, in the own country, on their own food supply for its people if its Live Export. That's foreign over reach, just when you think they couldn't get worse. They are happy to sabatege a vital Australian Export Market.
At this point if other markets are developed and they out compete Live Export to the point foreign customers want frozen/chilled then thats fair & thats fine. BUT NO MARKET MANIPULATION TO DESTROY A MARKET BY DIRECT INTERVENTION & OVER REACH...Let The Market Decide.
5) Because its in decline anyway?
No its not. If it was, I'd wonder why as customers can buy a much cheaper product when its live & they can slaughter it when they need it. Many livestock stay in feedlots over seas until they either hit a set target slaughter weight OR when the infrastructure has the ability to kill & process it.
If decline was the only reason, well wool exports are now lower than 2019, do we ban the trade? No, so why even say falsely say Livex is in decline & thats a reason to ban the trade. Wait, wool exports today are also much lover than 1988 as well. Do we ban it? No, so why even mention it & not mention wool & live export has fluctuated over the last 10, 20, 30 years?
To misrepresent things I guess.
Here's some thing Live Export Banners won't say.
What happens to Northern Australia? Nearly all the pastoral country will be shut & the removal of livestock from many millions of square miles means no money to maintain & improve pastoral lands & manage feral numbers. Remove livestock & you will have in the northern half of Australia possibly the biggest economic & ecological disaster in the Nation's history. It will be a tinder box with uncontrolled bushfires every season.
You also will see a removal of health services, education, policing & the RFDS will have less places to land as air strips no longer have bi-annual repairs.
If we have to double (double several times) the Australian based slaughter, processing, cold storage & handling infrastructure and the work force to operate it...who pays for that? Foreign customers won't. Do you factor that into the export price which is far more expensive without it factored, compared to Live Export? Do you make a more expensive product more expensive without improving quality to represent the price rise & expect 3rd world & emerging nation customers to buy it at that inflated price?
Perhaps we can set up a pool to build it. Those interested in banning Live Export might be interesting the magical huge profits that will be amassed by new chilled/frozen exporters & the new abattoirs? Perhaps they can get their super funds to invest now, build now & just out perform Live Export. Because y'know...you think it's a great new replacement market, the Live Export is in decline & there's profits to be made. We could also get politicians to opt in & invest all their political career superannuation into Domestic Chilled/Frozen Exports because, live export is in decline, the big money is coming to those who invest now & the replacement trade will be moral, ethical and not cruel.
Why on earth would ANYONE sprouting these "values" and points not put their money where their mouth is?
Lead by example. Front up. Don't ban a currently viable market & deliver valueable GDP to another country...cash up & invest and get the replacement market going if its so good, so moral, so non cruel, so profitable & so coming anyway.
Nope, we instead get people struck down with Founding Father Syndrome selling untruths & misrepresentations along with false moral judgements who won't lead the way & pour investment money into the next big thing.
Such is the vile front of the Chardonnay Socialists and Fame Grabbers.
Build an abattoir. Find & pay the staff, reap the huge profits of the Chilled/Frozen Market that will somehow magically take over anyway.
Dear Livex Ban Supporters...put your money where you mouth is...front it, do it.
Bet you don't...
Each time this pops out it takes less than 5 minutes of me asking them questions to find out its not actually moral or immoral it's just their view and thats that.
Not exactly a reason to end a vital export trade.
3) Because Australian jobs can be created?
Odd, I know of several abattoirs that are now closed & others that don't have more than more than one shift operating and none operating with 3 shifts (that is operating 24/7). Bear in mind, a abattoir set up for Lamb is a bit different to one set up up for ewes or wethers or cattle or goats, or pigs. Ideally you really need a dedicated lamb chain. Another would need to be a dedicated heavy wether chain. Even if every abattoir in WA were to be recommissioned tomorrow, could source enough staff to run them on one to two shifts a day they could not replace Live Export numbers.
So its short on infrastructure to slaughter, process, pack and cold store it. Its short of the staff ability & would take 1-2 years to train & build a skilled workforce. At 4-5% unemployment rate now, there is a massive staff shortage nationwide in most industries...so where are these abattoir workers coming from? But wait, there's also live truck transport infrastructure present but no where near enough Cold Storing Freight from abattoirs to ports available to handle even 20% of the new massive amounts of export chilled & frozen. Nor the staff to manage it in storage or to drive it and load ships.
4) Because new markets can be developed to replace it?
Well I was at the meeting in Katanning when Minister McTiernan said this. Still waiting. Has there been any massive growth in Chilled & Frozen Exports? Some, not above organic increases though. In fact the WALabor Platform says they will develop new markets. They haven't done much, but it also says they will only develop new replacement markets. That's market distoration & manipulation. That is a very big no-no for any Government, VERY BIG NO-NO!!!
It also says it will push & pressure foreign governments to lessen it's reliance on Live Product & not spend any of their own money, in the own country, on their own food supply for its people if its Live Export. That's foreign over reach, just when you think they couldn't get worse. They are happy to sabatege a vital Australian Export Market.
At this point if other markets are developed and they out compete Live Export to the point foreign customers want frozen/chilled then thats fair & thats fine. BUT NO MARKET MANIPULATION TO DESTROY A MARKET BY DIRECT INTERVENTION & OVER REACH...Let The Market Decide.
5) Because its in decline anyway?
No its not. If it was, I'd wonder why as customers can buy a much cheaper product when its live & they can slaughter it when they need it. Many livestock stay in feedlots over seas until they either hit a set target slaughter weight OR when the infrastructure has the ability to kill & process it.
If decline was the only reason, well wool exports are now lower than 2019, do we ban the trade? No, so why even say falsely say Livex is in decline & thats a reason to ban the trade. Wait, wool exports today are also much lover than 1988 as well. Do we ban it? No, so why even mention it & not mention wool & live export has fluctuated over the last 10, 20, 30 years?
To misrepresent things I guess.
Here's some thing Live Export Banners won't say.
What happens to Northern Australia? Nearly all the pastoral country will be shut & the removal of livestock from many millions of square miles means no money to maintain & improve pastoral lands & manage feral numbers. Remove livestock & you will have in the northern half of Australia possibly the biggest economic & ecological disaster in the Nation's history. It will be a tinder box with uncontrolled bushfires every season.
You also will see a removal of health services, education, policing & the RFDS will have less places to land as air strips no longer have bi-annual repairs.
If we have to double (double several times) the Australian based slaughter, processing, cold storage & handling infrastructure and the work force to operate it...who pays for that? Foreign customers won't. Do you factor that into the export price which is far more expensive without it factored, compared to Live Export? Do you make a more expensive product more expensive without improving quality to represent the price rise & expect 3rd world & emerging nation customers to buy it at that inflated price?
Perhaps we can set up a pool to build it. Those interested in banning Live Export might be interesting the magical huge profits that will be amassed by new chilled/frozen exporters & the new abattoirs? Perhaps they can get their super funds to invest now, build now & just out perform Live Export. Because y'know...you think it's a great new replacement market, the Live Export is in decline & there's profits to be made. We could also get politicians to opt in & invest all their political career superannuation into Domestic Chilled/Frozen Exports because, live export is in decline, the big money is coming to those who invest now & the replacement trade will be moral, ethical and not cruel.
Why on earth would ANYONE sprouting these "values" and points not put their money where their mouth is?
Lead by example. Front up. Don't ban a currently viable market & deliver valueable GDP to another country...cash up & invest and get the replacement market going if its so good, so moral, so non cruel, so profitable & so coming anyway.
Nope, we instead get people struck down with Founding Father Syndrome selling untruths & misrepresentations along with false moral judgements who won't lead the way & pour investment money into the next big thing.
Such is the vile front of the Chardonnay Socialists and Fame Grabbers.
Build an abattoir. Find & pay the staff, reap the huge profits of the Chilled/Frozen Market that will somehow magically take over anyway.
Dear Livex Ban Supporters...put your money where you mouth is...front it, do it.
Bet you don't...
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