TIME WE WERE HEARD!
Peter McGauran's announcement and swing in rhetoric to a 'slight' chance of containment, in my opinion that was purely to justify pandering to the boys in Vic. What this also did was open the way for the NSW and QLD Ministers to also look after the big boys and to hell with the rest of us. Well it didn't take long!!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/24/2042083.htm
I thought on the week-end how convenient that one of the tracks in Sydney was sacrificed to enforce their case, I kept that to myself, but yesterdays news of a track in Qld some 50klms from the nearest hotspot... Sorry, too much of a co-coincidence, now this morning in the news gee look 7000 viles of the first shipment (which after funnelling some to VRC) left 9500 to come to Qld. You do the math, the TB's are again taking priority and will jeopardise the containment eradication program, while the rest of the industry are left on their knees.
I am purely a recreations horse owner but I have friends who are being financially crippled by this and I for one have had enough.
I suggest if you feel the same write a letter to your local members, Minister for Primary Industries, the PM and the opposition leader and let them know we will stand up and be heard, if not now then at the polling booths.
Find your Federal Member's email address here
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/mi-alpha.asp
There is an election about to be announced and we need to be heard, we need to bombard these people and tell them we will hold them TO account come polling day!
Cindy M
SE Queensland
(Here is a generic letter, feel free to use it or write your own, but DO IT NOW! We must be heard!)
Dear ???As a recreational horse owner, I would like to express my dismay and anger at the handling of the Equine Influenza outbreak in Australia.While governments fall over themselves to help the racing industry -- to the point of giving vaccines to Victorian Racing, when they were purchased to help eradicate the disease in New South Wales and Queensland -- many thousands of people in the recreational horse industry are all but ignored.Those vaccines are paid for under the cost sharing arrangement, which means horse owners will bear 80 percent of their costs. Why should we as recreational horse owners subsidise the interests of racing when it is to our own detriment?I demand that all possible efforts be made to eradicate EI from Australia, rather than pandering to the racing industry by introducing widespread vaccination -- something that will lead to long term significant additional financial and administrative burdens on horse owners, show societies and clubs. Many people and businesses in your electorate rely on the recreational horse industry for their survival. Many, many others have had their lives disrupted, and yet they rate barely a mention in the voice-grabs, or the planning, of the authorities. All of these people, as well as their families and friends, will be keen to have their say on how this crisis has been handled at the polling booth in the near future.Stop playing politics with our horses' health!Yours faithfully
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/24/2042083.htm
I thought on the week-end how convenient that one of the tracks in Sydney was sacrificed to enforce their case, I kept that to myself, but yesterdays news of a track in Qld some 50klms from the nearest hotspot... Sorry, too much of a co-coincidence, now this morning in the news gee look 7000 viles of the first shipment (which after funnelling some to VRC) left 9500 to come to Qld. You do the math, the TB's are again taking priority and will jeopardise the containment eradication program, while the rest of the industry are left on their knees.
I am purely a recreations horse owner but I have friends who are being financially crippled by this and I for one have had enough.
I suggest if you feel the same write a letter to your local members, Minister for Primary Industries, the PM and the opposition leader and let them know we will stand up and be heard, if not now then at the polling booths.
Find your Federal Member's email address here
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/mi-alpha.asp
There is an election about to be announced and we need to be heard, we need to bombard these people and tell them we will hold them TO account come polling day!
Cindy M
SE Queensland
(Here is a generic letter, feel free to use it or write your own, but DO IT NOW! We must be heard!)
Dear ???As a recreational horse owner, I would like to express my dismay and anger at the handling of the Equine Influenza outbreak in Australia.While governments fall over themselves to help the racing industry -- to the point of giving vaccines to Victorian Racing, when they were purchased to help eradicate the disease in New South Wales and Queensland -- many thousands of people in the recreational horse industry are all but ignored.Those vaccines are paid for under the cost sharing arrangement, which means horse owners will bear 80 percent of their costs. Why should we as recreational horse owners subsidise the interests of racing when it is to our own detriment?I demand that all possible efforts be made to eradicate EI from Australia, rather than pandering to the racing industry by introducing widespread vaccination -- something that will lead to long term significant additional financial and administrative burdens on horse owners, show societies and clubs. Many people and businesses in your electorate rely on the recreational horse industry for their survival. Many, many others have had their lives disrupted, and yet they rate barely a mention in the voice-grabs, or the planning, of the authorities. All of these people, as well as their families and friends, will be keen to have their say on how this crisis has been handled at the polling booth in the near future.Stop playing politics with our horses' health!Yours faithfully
posted by Horse Deals at
8:56 am
1 Comments:
Attention all Queenslanders if the media won't come to us we the people will come to them!!!!
One word Demonstration
We WILL HAVE A VOICE!!
email me with your interest and any ideas that you have. Remember everybody ROAR DON'T WHISPER
angela@stockhorse.com.au
ANG
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