{"id":67554,"date":"2014-05-14T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=67554"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:26:22","slug":"senator-warns-farmers-maintain-industry-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/05\/14\/senator-warns-farmers-maintain-industry-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Warns Farmers:
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\"Senator<\/a>
Senator Ron Boswell with Wendy Tully, Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott and Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen in Kingaroy in 2007 (Photo: Ron Boswell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 14, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell today warned primary producers to take action now to maintain control over production and marketing.<\/p>\n

In what Senator Boswell described as his “last substantial speech in the Senate”, he said: \u201cWhat I want to do is leave all Australian primary producers with a warning: take action now to maintain control over the production and marketing of your product.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrimary producers are under threat from a long-term strategy by a powerful and sophisticated combination of environmental zealots and major corporations that would effectively control primary production practices worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Boswell said the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, an organisation created by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and dominated by non-producer bodies, was an example of the threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regard WWF and other environmental activists teaming up with major corporations to impose conditions on producers as a dangerous development,\u201d Senator Boswell said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cManagement of primary production is being taken away from producers and from elected governments by environmental non-government organisations. They are doing it via environmental conditions enforced by corporations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was encouraged during the six years of the previous Labor Government. That government was in effect a Labor-Greens alliance, and Labor surrendered to environmental lobbyists time and again. It is time the Australian Government re-asserted its legitimate role in management of primary production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWWF and other environmental activists are increasingly trying to dictate what can and can\u2019t be caught, harvested, grown or mined in Australia.<\/p>\n

“WWF is an organisation with a turnover in the hundreds of millions of dollars and 5000 staff spread across offices in 60 countries. It is a huge multinational business with enormous resources. What\u2019s more, it is handling the likes of roundtables and stewardship councils on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy contrast, producers are often developing responses on the run, responding as best they can to a sophisticated, well-rehearsed strategy from WWF. Let\u2019s not pretend that, individually, any single commodity or industry representative body can handle an organisation as powerful and sophisticated as WWF.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call on everyone involved in productive toil in our primary industries to address this issue. Work together, and with the Australian Government, to retain the influence you deserve to have over the way your industries operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cProducers have a fundamental knowledge of how their operations should be conducted; Government has the scientists, economists and resource managers to assist producers.<\/p>\n

“Together, they can guarantee sensible, rational, sustainable management of this nation\u2019s natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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