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28-July-2011
Dear Friends, In today’s Canberra Times, The Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce picks up on Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens’ comments this week, warning of the growing toll on the nation’s productivity and Australian jobs as the Federal Government continues to pursue green policies. “The policies of the Greens are unproductive. Yet Bob Brown has been successful in his advocacy of many of these policies in the new Green-Labor-Independent Government. “This Government shut down the north of the nation by suspending the live-export trade. They tried to shut down the middle with a draft Murray-Darling Basin plan last year that caused a virtual riot and this week they have announced a plan to effectively shut down the forestry industry in the south. “Next we will have a carbon tax to shut down whatever is left open. “Economists and bureaucrats talk about productivity in prosaic and abstract terms but all of these anti-productivity policies have real consequences for real people. “The reality is that the green agenda destroys real jobs; it destroys the real wealth that people have invested in their homes and small businesses, and it leaves people stranded with debts that don't get written down because of bad government policies but asset values which do. “For all of those fortunate enough to have relatively secure employment, we should take time to think of the people working in the timber mill in Smithton, working on the cattle property near Tenant Creek, teetering on the edge of a new Murray-Darling Basin plan in Deniliquin or working in a coalmine in the Hunter Valley as they shake their heads at the policies coming out of Canberra. “As the cattle grazier in northern Australia said, ''We don't want social security, we just want to keep our job.'' Seems to me a perfectly reasonable request.
Click here to read Barnaby’s column in full. Kind regards,
Senator Barnaby Joyce Leader of The Nationals in the Senate
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