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After seeing Hacker befuddled by the bureaubrats ,I never thought I'd see the day when a leader,particularly one who has none to deal with, defend them. I've lived to see Bob Brown do it on Jon Feine's program, a few days ago. Some city folks tell me I lead a sheltered life out ere , No politickan and such: but we see a lot . We have to study all our lives to survive . And we can see a dud talking his way into trouble! Which got me wondering why these blokes from the big smoke keep sucking the same sauce bottle on trees , if ya get what I mean. Tony Abbott this week offered us the same old same old story; just trees . I mean its like a broken record now on slow forward from 20 billion to 20 million - (I'm with Barnaby on this; who cares billions or trillions- It's still a heck of a lotta waste) Don't they know that we JUST want someone to talk sense about our place !!!!!).Got it ! Not that we don't love native trees (20% of my property )> What...

Or so he says- half way up a tree and without food for more than 20 days. Maybe he was mad before he sought to blame the government He wouldn't be the first man in rural Australia to be driven mad by the childish , ever changing and hypocritical logic of the green lobbyists. Tree huggers, let alone anyone else, are not supposed to resist the idea of carbon trading on our behalf - the greater good is done by those with the best intention. They take the poor blokes rights off him and give the bloke driving his RV truck around town a tank and a subsidy for doing what rural people do for nothing - The dummies TALK (not offer) some new dopey dreaming nonsense about soil sequestration compensation when it won't work , AND when the harvesting and utilization of the existing timber could!! Rudds group are so out of touch they give money to those who should be fined and stop things they should encourage. Enough to drive you mad . As for all this talk of moral imperative . How about ev...

Was in bed thinking as I often do about why the citicentrics are worried about the world warming. It had been a typical climate warming scare day at 40 degrees but now i up to my ears under the blankets . They like things simple they do. Maybe the worriers think its as simple as burning equals warming which would be true if the heat didn't escape .But it does - every night when there is no cloud More here him

no sheep ere It used to be that, once every few years, we would tell em "Yeh mate, this is how it is !" They would like to hear what we've got say and we'd tell em We'd tell them what to ” think”. we'd try anyway , Elp em out Now they tell us what WE should “think”. \ Hang on a minute mate ! We are no sheep....We don't follow you. Infact, while we are on the subject of sheep , I am inclined to think those sheep are more intelligent than the person who made the ads . Every day for weeks on end .........those ads ..... I have stopped thinking . It used to be that we would tell them what WE were worried about. Now they tell us what THEY are worried about. They worry too much ! That worried look , of all things, makes me really nervous. I used to think they knew what they were doing, and were getting on with it. It used to be that our leaders would tell us what they were doing – now they just tell US what to do. “Think" they say. What is it al...

I mean, like I said some months ago, the city is more worried than I am . It seems to me that noone really knows quite what we are worried about. Is it rising sea levels , more storms or hotter weather , too much co2 or too much methane ? Lucky for me cows; they don't know we are about to stick something truly breathtaking up them ! When the greens come out here and show us how to keep the atmosphere from imploding, then we will all, indeed, have something to worry about! All this hot air from the city does not worry me. When they worries about things i know more about than they do , it makes it easy for me - I 'm the calming agent . They might not believe us country hicks but i know enough to know what i know --they are just fishing but without their line in the water like mine is - day after day . Sure This Hot air and methane stuff is complex -I don't know much at all about that. i wish i did know . if greens really know, tell us how to run carbon trading ag...

Hard to believe isn't it .Its like they are on drugs or somethin . some new religion . The ink is just dry on the ozone layer disaster and the sky is falling again . The situation is said to be so serious the Powers that be need to act straight away . "the day of salvation is today - thursday - if we don't act its disaster; things will melt irrevocably" said john feine in response to his well groomed waste audit guest this morning . toomorrow THE SUMMIT .its hot and we must find a way to cool down quickly The media are not alone in drumming the beat along . Polys this week will be willingly giving away powers that are not really their own to others who have no right to own them --- and why ?----to hold up the sky and produce more water . I don't think so . In my very limited experience , most of the things polys build tend to fall over. More stranger still --how did they all get the idea that big is better and they can do things about the weather - are they...

He was down in the gully talking water ,drought . We'll all be rooned" i said "having to put up with the patting possums brigade; doing all the things nice city folks think we farmers should do . Let alone the things we " do wrong" i said .We try but half of it makes no big picture conservation sense mate . You give them time to tell you what they know as we do out ere but they don't even know things about water and carbon that blind fredy would know . "You know" i said " If it keeps up " We'll all have to move down there on the banks of the Yarra, liv in bark huts and eat possums .If These city folks would only live whgat they believed they ight realise how unrealistic their dreams are . . He listened and I think he learned somthin esp when I asked him what he was eating now most natural things were protected. Best of all he called for some common sense and rationality . wow beat that ! Who knows what he'll do now he's w...

Gee that bloke from the UN the other night ( friday night ABC NEWS - top story ) was confusing . I mean was it "90% probably land clearing "or "90% probable burning fossil fuels. Hope the PM doesn't go and spend another 10 billion dollars before he finds out . WAs it him that was certified or the subject that was certainified . They worry me these city folks - especailly talking about the weather and who controls it-- not only are they meessing in territory they haven't got a hoot on - they jump on the waggon before they're sure its going anywhere . I must be one of those deniers the reporter claimed anyone who didn't agree with them was - don't mind a bit of religion and politics but not as prime news, not as part of the reporters bent and all mixed up togther so you can't tell which is which and who said what and when and how they were going to fix it all .

i can't quite get the gist of why Thwaites is offering mosquito aquiriums to the city folks for the 1 in 1000 yr drought( as he reckons ) ,. seems to me the 1000 bucks would be better spent on something else - One gilmore prize wouldn't cost as much , but it would do more good than these tokens for the idols !!! The silly old tanks technology brigade will be little better than a bucket brigade ... it makes sense if you are an ideas man and all you cultivate is your own. Pity You can't drink the water or really practically rely on it wired in , It will only produce a piddle on the lawn after it has already rained and it will be rusted out or cracked open in 99 years , let alone the 999 years he's now got us to install em for. Wonder if this great idea for a grant has put $200 on the price of tanks anyway ?brilliant economic managers ?

Like chooks with their heads cuts cut off , they run around in a panic . Finally they get the word Before it was "its 100 yr" drought "no it 1000yr" and from MR Thwaites " no , its worse than that , according to my tealeaves - its never happened before " . what would the polys know and why do they think we would belive them and the media hype ----the Age ; of all newspapers seeks ---such propaganda and improper process to promote.swearthnews

"We'll all be ruined " me city mates said. They're worried . It used to be that i wus the only one worried about the weather . Now thems go into a panic .They just about kill me if i say " she'll be right mate " . Has the world gone mad ? "It's all that heat that our cars are pumping out" they say. "its crating warmin - we need to walk more .....cause its warming " "Well i am not sure about this new astrology stuff, but down ere - its not heat but water we're all pumping out too "- basic fissicks "what about the heat then?" heat +water = humidity could rain then ? Gee not in novemeber and not before the election? that would upset the quickfixers ? Its happened before those blokes should get out ere and study the substance and the science ..... and not the TV so much

What this country really needs? Subject: The ARMY Dear Mum & Dad, I am well. Hope you are. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil the Army is better than working on the farm - tell them to get into the Army quick before the jobs are all gone. I was a bit slow in settling down at first, because you don't get outta bed until 6am. I like sleeping in now, but all you do before brekky is make ya bed and shine your boots and clean your uniform. No cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack-nothing. Men must shave, but its not so bad, coz there's hot water and a light to see what ya doing. Breakfast has cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew. You don't get fed again until noon, and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock. This will kill Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shoo...

You've got nothing to worry about mate, compared to those panic merchants in the big smoke! Did you notice how much panic the polys are in over water and our world heating this week. and whatever else is wooryin em/ about us ? not sure why they get that way -- do you? They obvoisly don't know much about big picture cycles ----like the last glacial!

Realistic views of the future? One thing I can't fathom is this talk that Bob Brown knows where he is going. He's a realist? By watching TV many of my city cousins think they know whats good for the country . And more than us. we country folks area supposed to be too close to the issues or just " doing the wrong thing by being here", or somethin "We can get all our sugar and milk cheaper from brazil", and the market knows better than any mind !" I think we might have left our minds behind here , maybe ? What now boys? I guess that means that we should all move to the city, eat possums and live in bark huts. sorry but can't use bark apparently bark is a timber product. thats not allowed !

M1 Did you hear that Bob katter hasn't even got a passport? According to city folks that means we are dumb we don't know what we are talking about on economic matters! M2 Rather my money with you mate than with them !

"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 !

You know one of the funniest things I've ever seen is John Cleese doing those surviving committees videos. Truth is they are worsely run than they ever were! I reckon many of the problems governments have is because they believe too much in "community consultation" . There's something missing i reckon Its important to talk but not weigh up everything with numbers . the "maths model" of democracy is missing something essential . Everyone gets their say and noone gets their way because its too precise and patheticly politically correct . What you need is real leadership ,otherwise its another round of fad driven funny money and yet another kick in the guts when it fails . "We didn't mean to hurt you they will say" after it happens again and they want to fund some new idea someone down there is the big smoke has dreamed up!

Terrible terrible . The Otways are being ruined . Come and see for yourself what logging has done, the history, the impacts , the precious and unique. Hear what those who have managed it say on site before they are forced out forever. November 29/30 . Details on http://ourland3.tripod.com/otwaysoptions

We'll all be ruined "Its unbelievably wet ... " The cows are getting bogged and we are up to our armpits in it . You should have been at the Colac show . the place was a mud bath -people walking around in gumboots and it wasn't just a tribute to Cliffy . While we know you blokes up near Donald wanted more, we've had enough . Don't forget the meeting at Simpson on Friday night . where you might ask in Simpson - well Simpson is one little country town with 1 everything that matters.! Make it a big one cause eventually the Feds will realise the chanting of competition policy is only popular with those who like things very simple.