Australian farmers - frontline environmentalists...

• Farmers occupy and manage 61% of Australia’s landmass, as such, they are at the frontline in delivering environmental outcomes on behalf of the broader community.

- Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, At a Glance, 2010.

• Our farmers have led Australian primary industries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a massive 40% between 1990 and 2006. This is Australia's leading greenhouse gas reduction contribution.

- Australian Government Department of Climate Change, National Inventory By Economic Sector 2006.

• Australian agriculture has important linkages with other sectors of the economy and, therefore, contributes to these flow-on industries. Agriculture supports the jobs of 1.6 million Australians, in farming and related industries, across our cities and regions – accounting for 17.2% of the national workforce.

- modelling by Econtech, Australia’s Farm Dependent Economy Report, 2005.
http://www.nff.org.au/farm-facts.html

 

The owners of a Western Australian cattle station say they are being forced to cull about 3,000 cattle in the wake of the ban on live exports to Indonesia.

Australia's live cattle trade with Indonesia was suspended last month after public outrage at footage of cruelty to cattle in some Indonesian abattoirs.

But Nico Botha from Moola Bulla Station near Halls Creek in the Kimberley says they will have to start shooting the animals on his property tomorrow.

Mr Botha says there are currently 25,000 head of cattle on his property and those numbers need to be reduced because there is not enough natural grass to feed them all.

"We'd rather shoot them now than go through over grazing, dying in the paddocks, struggling to get the paddocks better again," he said.

"That's going to take us another three years, so [we'd] rather do our decision now than go through all the other dramas."

Mr Botha says he knows of other pastoralists who will also have to cull.

He says the Federal Government does not realise that cattle are going to die on paddocks in the thousands.

"They're just going to starve themselves to death, and that's what (the Federal Government) created - the biggest animal welfare issue in the history of Australia," he said.

"Animals are going to die on the paddocks in huge numbers and we're not talking hundreds, we're talking thousands."

The WA Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) says station owners are trying to send a message to Canberra.

PGA president Rob Gillam says it is an extreme move, but the station owners are struggling.

"I just hope it doesn't take place but I think this is really a signal of the frustration that people are now beginning to feel," he said.

"In this particular case, Nico is thinking 'well, I've got nowhere else to go'."   

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/05/3261362.htm  Click to read full article

Swann's Message to Young Australia - Get a Job

THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has urged young welfare dependent Australians to get a job - and the federal budget should help them stand on their own two feet.

Mr Swan said the number of young Australians on welfare was unacceptable, while spruiking the budget at a business lunch in Melbourne yesterday.

He said that despite the unemployment rate being almost half that of other developed countries, 10 per cent of people aged 15 to 24 were not working or studying.

RURAL Statistics

Australian Government Statistics show us that more than 55% of Queenslanders live outside capital cities such as, Brisbane.
Regional areas account for 35% or the population while 20% of the population  are situated  in rural and remote areas.

Some of the advantages your should take into account when considering to choose a lifestyle or  work in a rural, regional or remote areas are

•  a relaxed and friendly lifestyle
• a strong sense of community
• and opportunities to do more than you ever  imagined.

Due to the nature of regional areas your work will expose you to a wide range of personal and professional experiences along with many varied and exciting career opportunities.

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