Hanrahan

"You poor bastard" They may not say it, but too many think it . This is a call to our fellow Austrailans to stop patronising us , and start supporting systems of sustainable land management - those who look after their country and their food supplies. From our point of view , poverty is one thing, but predjudice is worse!. It' s very tough when our passions are treated with patronising predjudice. The lack of respect for rural custodians seems to be growing, perhaps even with the best of intentions. Successful city folks have always pondered the pennypinching aspects of paradigms of those involved in ecosyetem management. This is not new - and neither is the FACT that the blinkered view of complex ecomanagmenet is wrong to impose the monocultural madness of quick fix on us--- it doesn't workout here - big dollars are wasted when they could do some good if our system of economy was respected . Low return to capital is not only right -its best prac...

"They are very good people, they've worked very hard and they don't deserve what's happened to them," the PM said as he addressed sugar farmers in the marginal seats up north last week . Don't you hate it when Canberra thicktanks knows something they clearly don't .- and they treat you like ignoramusus's as they pat you on the back and say " your'e a good bloke - but work harder and if your smart " get out" Be all right if they could manage money like we can eh !