214 China looking to buy Australian FARMS - instead of buying FOOD

Monckton interview with Alan Jones (Sydney radio) 25 Jan 2010 - RECOMMENDED:
http://www.2gb.com.au/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=5507

(1) Monckton Tour of Australia - Update
(2) There was no Stolen Generation - Keith Windschuttle
(3) China looking to buy Australian FARMS - instead of buying FOOD

(1) Monckton Tour of Australia - Update

From: Joe Bryant <succeed@tsn.cc>  Date: 25.01.2010 03:01 AM

Lord Monckton/Alan Jones Interview 25 Jan 2010 Link

http://www.2gb.com.au/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=5507

Lord Monckton Tour of Australia - ITINERARY UPDATE taken from www.agmates.ning.com

January 27 - Sydney 12.30pm Union Club Lunch

January 27 - Sydney $20 5.30pm Grand Ballroom, The Sheraton on t he Park
Elizabeth Street.

January 28 - Newcastle $2 12:30p.m. Pay at the door.
VENUE: The Banquet Room, Newcastle City Hall, King St, NEWCASTLE.

January 29 - Brisbane 12.30pm Lunch Grand Ballroom Hilton Hotel
Queens Street Brisbane

January 29 - Brisbane 3pm "Town Hall Meeting," Irish Club

January 30 - Noosa $20 The J in Noosa Junction @2p.m. Payment at the door

February 1 - Melbourne $20 luncheon, 12.00 for 12.30, will be held at 6/112 Millswyn St, South Yarra: (RSVP no later than c.o.b. on Thursday, January 28, by email to ipe_2@bigpond.com)

February 2 - Melbourne $20 "Town Hall Meeting," Venue TBA

February 3 - Canberra

February 4 - Adelaide 2pm

February 5 - Adelaide

February 8 - Perth Lunch - Parmelia Hotel

February 8 - Perth 5:30pm "Town Hall Meeting" Parmelia Hilton, 14 Mill Street, Perth.
To cover costs a “donation” of $10pp will be collected at the door. Assorted homemade biscuits, coffee & tea provided. Please email: Daphne Dhimitri daphne_dhimitri@hancockprospecting.com.au
or Ph: (61 8) 9429 8248 l Fax: (61 8) 94298268

(2) There was no Stolen Generation - Keith Windschuttle

From: Tony Ryan <tonyryan43@gmail.com> Date: 25.01.2010 09:45 PM

> "There were no Stolen Generations"
> by Keith Windschuttle
> http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2010/01/there-were-no-stolen-generations

Keith Windschuttle has earned his place in history as Australia’s most fearless historian, willing to dismember and decimate a bloated academia that is riddled with pot-boiling frauds and sad fringe-dwellers of inner urban society who ooze their sterile lives through the pages of ideological tomes.

Academically speaking, his research is thorough and his dedication is clearly to a single cause… exposing the truth, and the time has been long overdue for the myth of the stolen generation to be exposed.

Please note I said ‘academically speaking’.

Keith’s information derives almost entirely from pages, not people. This presumes real life was transposed to paper. This is never the case, but try telling that to an academic.

To understand what happened to all children thus separated from their parents, whether they were the small number of part Aboriginal children; mainstream Australian children placed in orphanages; English children, some 40,000 in all sent to Canada, Africa and Australia; or children committed to boarding schools; they all suffered to one degree or another and 20% in all categories were sexually abused.

The abusive parties were never the people of Australia, nor the government officials who rescued Aboriginal children from neglect and predation; they were the church-going Christians in whose care they were placed, again and again and again. This aspect seems never to be raised in Australia and the role of Christianity in war-mongering, exploiting poverty and ignorance, child abuse, and collaboration with repressive governments, has yet to be told. To this day they are not sorry, so Rudd’s grandstanding apology was on behalf of the innocent, not the guilty.

Another critical element of child welfare history is ignored by Keith, culpably, because I attempted to draw it to his attention some years ago.

The reality is, others were fighting this cause in infinitely more hostile environments long before Keith’s curiosity drifted in the direction of Aboriginal development, yet those whose actions sparked the wider policy change get no mention whatsoever in his prose and their frontier work is ignored.

The human story should be told, at least in terms of my own experience. Perhaps others, too, will speak up and the full truth will become known.

A paper developed to assist people understand the historical and cross-cultural aspect of part Aboriginal children taken into care in the NT; and also to rebut the misrepresentations, libels and lies of the pseudo-rights and compensation industries, has been available for several years. Windschuttle ignores this too. In fact, he implies no such effort was ever made.

In 1975, as a recently graduated welfare officer in the NT, I upset many of my colleagues by soundly re-analysing every review of Wards of the State that landed on my desk, an annual event required by law. These very worthy people felt I was questioning their integrity by re-examining their earlier interventions on behalf of the Director of Welfare. They were somewhat mollified when I reported that all cases continued to be handled in the best interests of the children taken into care. Eventually, all accepted that a ‘new broom’ approach was in the interests of all concerned, especially as I was the only government officer who could conduct interviews in some of the many Aboriginal languages extant, and who was familiar with rules that regulated Aboriginal social organisation and behaviour.

However, in 1977 I broke ranks and condemned a fellow welfare officer’s attempts to persuade a traditional Galiwinku woman to give her baby up for adoption. The welfare officer claimed both she and the baby’s lives were in danger by virtue of threats from her promised husband, who did not want the progeny of a Greek taxi driver dumped in his family. This being a child without totem, spirit, clan or language, the promised husband had sworn to kill both mother and child. Moreover, the woman’s family had stated they would not even countenance the baby.

The truth was that Europeans could not conceive that Aborigines were able to initiate protection mechanisms, which they duly did, and the angry husband was banished by his family to another community until he had cooled off. As always, the grandparents fell in love with the baby at first sight.

Fortunately, an acting Director of Welfare approved my recommendations and both mother and child are living peaceably in their home community, and the infant is now a woman of 33 with her own children. But this episode sparked a professional debate that ended forever the automatic presumption, by both white officials and the Aboriginal women themselves, that half-white babies would be killed if intervention was not initiated. Although such reported behaviour is a cherished part of outback mythology I was never able to authenticate a single instance in North Australia. Welfare, with the noblest of intentions, simply had it wrong.

Thus the interventions into half-white new-borns was ended and, in 1979, the new Director of Welfare, Bruce Alcorn, took this further and authorised me to advise the parents of remote community juvenile offenders and petrol sniffers that the juvenile justice interventions also were over and that henceforth they must resolve their own children’s misbehaviour. This was two years before Reid’s absurd and contemptible stolen generation plagiarism surfaced.

A meeting outside the Catherine Courthouse with the six prerequisite ceremony elders created a formula for redemption… grandparents were to participate in English language education in the schools, and families were to expose their children to their own clan’s culture and language; every weekend, and out bush (There were four distinct language groups in this community, a typical circumstance in the NT). All kids over 13 were also required to attend the high discipline Kunapipi ceremony.

The local cop, Dave Walter, embraced the programme and was able to report that after three full months there was no repeat of petrol-sniffing, no juvenile offences and, amazingly, no adult offences in what had previously been an utterly dysfunctional community.

The motivational crux of this success was that families took responsibility for their own behaviour, and white authority had voluntarily retreated beyond reach of its (unintentional) repression, confidence-destroying imperialism, and ideological impositions. There were, however, casualties.

Adoption and Fostering Section found its role somewhat limited, as did Correctional Services and Juvenile Justice, and the career paths of urban part-Aboriginal opportunists evaporated that day. Worse, the lucrative judicial picnics known as Aboriginal Community Courts ground to a halt in this region and magistrates lost access to prized Travel Allowance. The two magistrates who were party to the (white-sanitised) community deal (Thomas and McGregor) evidently agreed that these must not be allowed to spread to other communities. What other explanation could there be for their silence thereafter?

In the community itself, the school principal resented being required to abandon pidgin (what posturing and fraudulent linguists ridiculously described as ‘Kreole’, a stream of Aboriginalised English containing an average of one Aboriginal language derivative per seventeen), and he too eventually undermined the programme; as did the part-Aboriginal heavies, mostly from Queensland, who previously had the community in terrorist lockdown.

Nevertheless, this outbreak of Aboriginal cultural confidence and initiative had far-reaching consequences, including encouraging one fellow Community Welfare colleague and former inmate of Retta Dixon Homes, Barbara Cumming, to write a book about her experiences, entitled Take This Child.

In the process of finding a publisher, she sought advice from HREOC personnel, who convinced her she should turn the entire book over to them. Thus was the stolen generation born. How Reid got his hands on this should be investigated.

But Barbara, untrained in history or social sciences, never comprehended the cross-cultural issues involved, nor did she appreciate the implications of history and changing values and social perceptions. As she was my valued close friend and colleague, I refrained from risking a hurt to her feelings by questioning her conclusions.

The whole issue of institutional abuse of child welfare has yet to be independently explored, and orphanages did not delimit this. It was my impression that part Aboriginal welfare officers were by far the most barbaric, closely followed by some of the judiciary. Justice James Muirhead, in his arbitrary Crime Prevention Council judgement, described one welfare officer’s abduction of Yuendumu children (as young as 7) for ‘treatment’ on a ‘Devil’s Island’ facility on the Arafura Coast as “… a worthwhile experiment”.

The ‘treatment’ consisted of one tarpaulin as shelter, one untrained Aboriginal minder; and the coastal boys terrified the desert children with images of giant mud crabs crawling from the sea and tearing then to pieces in the night.

Did the ‘treatment’ work? As any parent would understand, these children needed closer love and attention from their parents, not to be torn from their homes and stranded in an alien environment 2000 Ks from home and loved ones. No, it did not work, and the experience probably exacerbated their familial alienation, the real cause of their susceptibility to addiction.

In case there is any confusion here, it was my impression that the vast majority of welfare personnel who undertook casework and interventions, were of outstanding integrity and decency. These were mature people with proven capacity to deal fairly and effectively with their fellow citizens. It was only after 1978 that immature and emotionally defective social workers and other social scientists imposed their politically correct UN-derived theology on the client population, and this had a devastating impact on the Aboriginal community. Although an earlier survey had revealed that 60% of NT Aborigines were teetotallers, within 15 years 60% were now drinkers (Ref Peter D’Abbs, DDADDF), and child neglect and abuse proliferated. When the stolen generation stunt was launched, no social worker was prepared to save these children from misery and degradation only to be accused of stealing a second generation. This was the spineless new breed of academic welfare workers, who continue to allow hundreds of Australian children to be abused, maimed and killed every year.

Until academics comprehend they are peripheral to the action, and that in dismissing non-academic work and insights as anecdotal (academic and scientific code for useless), our vast and intensifying social disintegration will become culturally terminal.

Readers who want to know the real story behind the divisive and destructive stolen generation fraud (presented from an NT perspective), need only contact me for an e-mail attachment copy of the above-referred-to paper. It is also strongly recommended that you read Margaret Humphrey’s Empty Cradles. Once you have absorbed the enormity of the stolen generation fabrication, your faith in the integrity of our government and media will be finally be annihilated with a sister paper on the even bigger rort… the $80,000,000 Royal
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(3) China looking to buy Australian FARMS - instead of buying FOOD

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/tas/content/2009/06/s2608502.htm

Foreign owned and grown food on Australian soil

By Kathy Cogo

Thursday, 25/06/2009

Overseas countries are looking to buy Australian farms to solve their food security problems.

Greg Mason from Queensland Department of Primary Industries says some countries are running out of water to grow food so investors are looking for greener pastures.

He recently hosted a group of Chinese investors who were interested in seeing farms similar to theirs in terms of climate and crops.

Keith De Lacy from the large irrigation property Cubby Station also heads up a property investment company.

He supports foreign investment because he says Australia needs the capital but resources need to be used more wisely.

A property adviser who works with an Arab state says his client is interested in buying farms in other countries that are culturally compatible; however Australia is in their sights.

The client wants to spend over one billion dollars on properties to grow grain, fruit, vegetables and live sheep.

Chris Evans from Rural Management Partners says his client prefers to own and grow the food rather than contract Australian growers because it wants control over the food supply. ==

In this report:
Greg Mason, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Keith De Lacy, Chairman, Trinity
Chris Evans, Managing Director, Rural Management Partners

http://ausbuy.com.au/faqs.html

FAQs

Times Are Tough But by Working Together There is Hope for the Future

Australian commerce is in serious trouble. This is an inevitable situation for any person, company or country, which continually spends more than they earn. For over 25 years Australia has earned less than it has spent in relation to the rest of the world.

The balancing item for Australia’s increasing debt is more and more foreign ownership of our key industries. If we don’t fix our trading losses, we can’t stop foreign owned companies from buying our best resources.

Ownership does matter because over 80% of our trading losses relate to interest, dividends, etc taken out of our business by foreign owned companies before tax. It is only when Australians en masse change their spending habits, that our bureaucrats and politicians will follow our lead. Thus, we can only secure jobs for our children by firstly changing our own purchasing attitudes and behaviour.

Australian owned companies need our support, simply because if we as Australian’s don’t support them nobody else will.

Did You Know?

If every Australian changed from buying foreign owned to Australian owned we would reduce our current account deficit by $46.8 billion.

How does this work?

18 million Australians at $50 per week = $46.8 billion. For example, if you buy a bottle of Perrier mineral water at least 85% of the cost will end up overseas, with a small amount staying for the Australian labour required to get the product to the cash register. If Australian mineral water is bought, then it will be Australian water, Australian bottle, Australian labour, Australian profits with almost all the money staying in Australia.

Creating Jobs – Investing in Australians

The accepted figure used by the Government sponsored ISO offices is that for every $1 million of orders placed in Australia, 30 full time jobs are created, this rate is conservative. Example, if an engineering business in a town gets a contract for $1 million of work then much of the wages paid to the staff will be spent in the town, thus creating other jobs. This is called the multiplier effect.
Using this conservative rate of $1 million of Australian purchases creates 30 full time jobs, then $1 billion creates 30,000 full time jobs. The money saved of $28 billion at 30,000 jobs per $1 billion means we create 840,000 new full-time jobs, but let’s say conservatively 500,000.
How many jobs do we create when we spend on imported goods? Tthe sales person and the business owner.

Ownership of Australia

Over at least the last decade all Governments have funded growth and employment by selling off the country. Clearly the only foreign investment that should be allowed is that which is in Australia’s national interest. It should be investment which is added to our wealth, not just the takeover of existing businesses. Australia has the largest per household foreign debt in the western world. The sell-off of our companies must stop.

Foreign Debt Fewer Jobs

“I believe we’ve got to stop just being passive observers of this growing problem. We have to take action and get involved in bringing about a solution to the problem. If we don’t get our foreign debt under control, we might as well accept that we will become a branch office country with the skilled jobs, like IT, being sourced overseas.”  -  John Pym

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

“Are you a proud Australian? Do you support the green and gold?
Want to keep Australia strong and stop it being sold, give our kids a heritage of which they can be proud. Help our farmers come back from underneath a cloud. When you take your trolley out to do your weekly shop, look around for labels with the AUSBUY logo and use the AUSBUY Guide as your shopping bible.”  - Bob Carruthers

How Governments Make Decisions

“Mr Obhama says he is President of the USA not President of the world so his Government will favour US businesses when it spends. Our Governments buy the cheapest price without considering that taxpayers dollars are supporting foreign jobs not our own. They do not give Australian owned businesses the chance to meet the price of foreign competition.
“The NSW Treasruer says he will support Australian businesses even if they cost 20% more. Doesn’t he realise they know how to operate in a competitive environment and would not be in business if they cost 20% more. Cheap prices cost us jobs and governments votes” - Sam Richards.

Labelling

The current labeling laws are not disciplined and policed sufficiently to make it easy for consumers.

What labels mean

    * AUSBUY
          o If it carries the AUSBUY logo you are guaranteed the company is majority Australian owned and the decisions, jobs and profits stay here.
    * Australian Made
          o The product was substantially transformed here,
          o More than 50% of the total cost was here – imported ingredients and components manufactured here,
          o Not a guarantee the decisions and profits stay here.
    * Product of Australia
          o The product was made here and the ingredients sourced here.
          o From local and imported ingredients – the majority of the ingredients were sourced locally,
          o From imported and local ingredients – the majority of the ingredients were imported,
    * Australian Owned
          o More than 50% of the company is Australian owned.
          o Only the AUSBUY logo is your guarantee that this company is Australian owned and the decisions, profits and jobs stay here. The company may import all its goods with few jobs generated here

Labels should reflect the true source of the goods and services we buy.

Do you want to Buy Australian owned and made, but find the labels are confusing? To our cost as a country, currently we have not identified a consistent labeling in Australia that promotes Australian owned and made goods and services. While we want to do the right thing by Australia, our labeling laws do not give us a “fair go”.

The AUSBUY logo is the only guarantee that the company is majority controlled in Australian and that means the decisions are made here, taxes are paid here, profits are reinvested here and jobs stay here.


Deceptive Labelling Which Takes Advantage of Australians Desire to Support Our Own

Foreign Company Tricks

Foreign Companies will display the map of Australia, the Australian flag, a kangaroo, koala, a swagman, anything that is uniquely Australian to get you to believe that the product you are buying is Australian owned when it isn’t. This is deceptive labelling.

The following companies are FOREIGN owned although they may be partly Australian made.

    * Tip Top Bread - map of Australian on packaging – UK
    * Kirks Soft Drinks - Australian Since 1864 – Coca Cola - USA
    * Billy Tea - features a swagman and says Australian Favourite Tea –Imported from Malaysia by Unilever Owned UK
    * Dairy Farmers – still saying owned and made although taken over in 2008  – Japan
    * Golden Circle – still saying owned and made although taken over in 2009 by Heinz - USA
    * Lactose Cheeses - Australian flag on packaging - France
    * Swan Lager - West Australian emblem - Japan
    * Kangaroo Matches - kangaroo printed - Sweden
    * Koala Matches - koala printed - Indonesia
    * Heinz Products - map of Australia in circle - USA
    * Safcol Tuna - “South Australian born & bred” – Malaysia
    * Uncle Toby’s Since 1893 – Nestle - Switzerland

Where does your money go?

Nine out of every dollar you spend in the supermarket is foreign owned, although this was not always so. AUSBUY is very concerned at foreign owned companies implying they are Australian through their advertising and branding, fooling consumers into believing they are investing their money back in to Australia.

AUSBUY has often asked the ACCC to investigate foreign companies making false claims to be Australian on their packaging and signage. The ACCC has never considered this an important issue and has ignored AUSBUY’s pleas to put a stop to this practice. Almost every week we read ACCC reports outlining their terms to small Australian owned companies. Yet on this important issue of foreign companies trying to sell themselves as Australian, the ACCC fails to act.

Isn’t Australian Made good enough?

Foreign owned companies do create jobs for tax paying Australian’s, but their profits go overseas. There is a better alternative and that is Australian owned and made. Let’s create jobs for Australians while keeping the profits in Australia.

Who do we complain to when we see misleading claims or advertising?

The correct organisation is the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission). Address and email or write to your local Federal representative.


Why do some Australians think that local products are more expensive and not as good a Quality of Imports?

What people want?

Market researchers know that when people buy products and services they look for quality, value for money, competitive pricing, readily available or accessible and provenance. When all other things are equal provenance is the deciding factor. Provenance is reflected in reliable brands. AUSBUY’s provenance is long established, dating from 1991, and has been consistent about majority owned and made here.

AUSBUY Corporate members:

    * source the majority of components or ingredients here,
    * make decisions here,
    * keep profits here,
    * pay taxes here,
    * create jobs here.

What we found when we did a competitive pricing shop?

AUSBUY undertook research in the Supermarkets early in 2009 and updates these findings regularly. We compared branded AUSBUY products with their branded foreign competitors in Woolworths and Coles stores. Our findings might surprise you. We found not only were they cheaper,

    * they were better value – more weight than foreign competitors
    * better quality  - used less additivies and preservatives – e.g. pure milk not stabilitisers
    * more innovative then the foreign competitors – offered a range of goods and flavours not just the same ones sold around the world and sourced where the standards are not the same as here.

Why are some Australian products not the cheapest?

Some items which are not branded or house brands may be cheaper, but the either the quality is not as good or the products are oversupply from other countries which are sold here to erode our owned supply chain.

This practice may involve dumping which is very hard to prove. An Australian company or group of growers may have to compete with cheap foreign imports which are funded by their governments or specifically targeted to erode Australian suppliers markets. Dumping laws apply like criminal law – the victim has to prove the perpetrator is guilty. In the case of food this means trying to get prices for dumped products in their local market. Another law which impedes and exposes Australian companies.

The same issue applies in other industries in the manufacturing sector where countries have oversupply and have a lifestyle product suited to our market place. Recreational vehicles are an example where our manufacturers have to meet Australian standards and create jobs here yet some imports do not meet our standards. This puts our lives at risk and our skilled jobs are threatened.

Who are AUSBUY Members?

While the media and our leaders are intent on painting a gloomy picture, we are forgetting that there are thousands of successful Australian owned businesses which need our support. AUSBUY’s Corporate membership represents large diverse conglomerates to one person operations, all making a contribution to this country. They not only produce goods, but also services or run cooperative businesses. They are about business to consumer and business to business activities. In these difficult times we will be called upon to harness that capacity of thinking about others even more. Many AUSBUY Corporate members started as family owned businesses or co-operatives  that is why their provenance runs deep into the communities in which they operate and service. It is not just about them, it is about other Australians. It is about their future and that of future generations of Australians.

Why do we need to ensure that the decisions, the profits and the jobs stay here?

With 42% of all Australians receiving some government benefit, foreign debt growing beyond $700B and government debt around $315B, the only way we can sustain our owned companies and invigorate our economy is by creating opportunities here to employ people here in productive jobs.

How is wealth created to advantage more than a few?

Only businesses create wealth when we use the multiplier effect.

In the race to support the global village we had forgotten about the Australian village. You do not have to be an economist to appreciate how past generations knew that you did not spend more than you earned. Words like productivity and value adding have gone from our lexicon as we rushed to export raw materials, and buy them back a thousand fold more valuable as imported goods.

They also knew about investing in the future, taking risks and creating jobs. it’s simple if we invest $1M and you create 30 jobs. It is not that 30 people received $30k each, but rather that they are productive and create more than $2 or more dollars for every $1 invested.  Invest $100M and 3,000 jobs are created.

Others recognise us as a clever, innovative and productive country, but we have failed to recognise our own unique attributes, If we were a business we would have a clear vision of what we need to do and how to operate in a competitive environment, but vision is lost in the melee of opinions by people who have never been in business and foreign interference.

AUSBUY wants all Australians to be better informed about what is happening. The better informed you are the more empowered you become to make decisions about where you spend your dollars and assure your future.