I CAN feel the luffing breeze, the quiet terrible message that a cyclone is upon us and gathering darkness - like Cassandra in Ancient Greece, we keep screaming but no one listens.
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Imita Ridge on Kokoda, 13 miles from Port Moresby, the invasion of Australia was turned back. On Tuesday last we reached our Imita Ridge – a speech at the Trans Pacific Partnership debate in Parliament. The pent up fury of millions of Australians who watched their country sold out and sold off, the CEO cabal that runs Australia, those who pay themselves between $10 million and $20 million a year and pull the strings of their political puppet show - called Parliament. What was this speech?
It was the facts about free-trade. The last one was with the USA. They wanted an open door for pharmaceuticals, quarantine restrictions abolished. According to the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian newspapers, we wanted unrestricted access for dairy, beef and sugar. Did the USA get what they wanted? Yes. They got an open-door policy virtually for pharmaceuticals and for phytosanitary requirements and quarantine was emasculated. We pleaded with them not to allow the prawns in; you will get White Spot. Well, we got White Spot, we got Citrus Canker, Panama Disease, Black Sigatoka and Papaya Fruit Fly and a hundred others beside. Our quarantine is of course a joke.
What did the free-trade deal do for us? It gave away the entire CSG reserves of this nation; $23 billion a year was given away. We gave it away for six cents a gigajoule and we now have to buy our own gas back for $16 a gigajoule. That was a magnificent free-trade deal. We free-traded the wool industry, now there is virtually no wool industry, this costs the nation $16 billion a year. Ethanol: 'Oh, we must have a level playing field; we must have a free market.' So while Brazil produces ethanol and provides a $4 billion cross subsidy to its sugar industry, we're 'free trading', so we import $25 billion worth of petrol (93 percent of our petrol every year). 100 per cent of our petrol can come from grain, sugar cane and our vast oil shale deposits. Oh, and we wiped out the entire manufacturing industry of Australia.
The car industry alone was $25 billion a year. Just in CSG, wool, ethanol and motor vehicles, we have lost $40, $50, $60, and $70 billion in just five items – you pity poltroons who pollute this Parliament - we can’t reach for our guns they’re gone, we can’t reach for a Eureka flag, you’ve banned it.
