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What a joke the level playing field is
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What a joke the level playing field is ]Sometimes I wish I lived in the 19th Century, There was no such thing as a level playing field, Australian Farmers worked hard, long hours, but when they sold the fruit of their sweat they were given a decent price a price that allowed them to pay their bills and support their families. Our farmers who held their properties for generations. We enjoyed large flavorsome peaches, mandarins, Crispy sweet apples, our fruit was the best in the world, free from the diseases that plagued other countries. Our meat..beef, lam,b, mutton pork and chicken free of steroids, chemical good to eat and again free from pesticides and those revolting inhumane battery cages for the chickens, small feeding lots for the cattle etc. Newcastle thrived and prospered from the steel works situated there. We made our own furniture here in Australia, we were proud of our Holden, many families happily driving the sedans or family station wagons. Living in Queensland we had free hospital and doctor visits, there was little pollution our land and rivers not polluted. We had very little unemployment. Families went out on Sundays to the beach or the park and had bb-ques or picnics, playing cricket, football enjoying being together.... In the 21 century we supposedly have made so much progress and lived a better life..... I will admit medical science has made major breakthroughs. Computers have enabled cutting edge surgery to be performed so many lives saved. Telecommunications have allowed hospitals thousands od miles away from specialists can dial up help and are guide through complex procedures via the Internet. We can travel overseas for holidays either cruising or flying something only the very rich could afford in the good old days. Education too has advances and anyone no matter how poor if they had the brains can go through University. We now have a multicultural society and our new citizens have bought the gift of exotic food, spices, new vegetables, fruit, crafts and good people. But there is also a down side to this so called 21st century good life. Many of our farmer have been forced off the land unable to keep going on the low prices offered for their produce as well a battling droughts, fires floods. But the most damming the straw that broke their backs inferior fruit, vegetables and meat and seafood imported from overseas. Or if it comes from here so full of chemicals to make the animals bigger the fruit more colorful...but aa scientists are now telling us full of carcinogenic. Thousands of products flooding our markets many of them having to be recalled as being dangerous. Our manufacturing industry broken and laying crippled on the ground, we now sell our raw ores and buy it back at twice the price....Much of our land in the hand of foreign ownership... but our governments tell us it is good we import foreign goods and we can sell ours overseas.... Our governments also bend over backwards to show they are not racially prejudiced allowing all religions and cultural beliefs flourish here... yes that is a good thing on the surface, but what about my rights, when I was a little girl at Christmas time our greatest pleasure beside Santa's presents was to go into the City and looking in wonder into the windows of David Jones and Mark Foys windows and see the nativity scene, Santa an his sleigh, his rein deers and the christmas carolers.. now that is no longer allowed as it offends some of our new arrivals and their god. No longer are we allowed to sing christmas Carrol's in the squares of our towns or in schools again it offends..... I do not consider myself a racist, in fact I will fight for people to worship their god, keep their cultures in tact in their new land. However what I find hard to accept is that many do not learn their new home's language, nor do they take out citizenship, some do not recognize our laws... Why did they come here if they do not like what Australia stands for. I have to be honest the majority of new arrivals do make Australia their new homeland taking out citizenship embracing our casual lifestyle while still keeping their old land's culture alive...the best of both worlds.. Why this long rant...tonight on the news the scandal has broken... bottles of fruit juice supposedly made with Australian fruit is in fact made up from fruit grown in polluted soil and watered with water so full of chemicals from polluted rivers and the fruit juices are months in fact years old when it arrives in our super markets, cases ae coming forward this juice has killed or made and elderly peole very ill. If this is what is meant by a level playing field....I do not want it....would rather go back to Fortress Australia and live off our land again. [bling 244321 |
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10/18/2011 6:19 pm |
Love this blog. Something I would have wrote if I would have thought of it.Peter
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