Somebody... Vicki Campion...is asking the question over here - But I don’t think the right people are listening, or if they are they can't or won't hear.
"For those who can no longer afford dinner, you will be happy to know your government is jetting to Dubai for their number-one priority, action on climate change.
As the most simple home-cooked Aussie staple of lamb chops and mash soars to more than $25 for a family dinner, the Albanese ministry is set for a United Nations junket on lab-grown meat and methane taxes.
Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen is off to promote Australian land to renewables carpetbaggers at his second COP as Minister, where last year he signed us up to a global methane pledge.
Department of Energy and Climate Change bureaucrats told an Australian delegation to the global conference this week that this time he would focus on promoting and accelerating foreign investment into the Australian renewables sector.
While he flits around the Australia Pavilion, he will have little focus on agriculture.
In fact, COP28 has scheduled presentations to “understand why there is a critical need to invest in alternative proteins”, including “cultivated meat”.
It will also launch “a new, global initiative to address dairy methane emissions” called the Dairy Methane Action Agenda, sure to make milk more expensive and force more Australian farmers out, featuring “innovative approaches to public-private methane reduction in the agriculture sector”.
It is easier to be a big thing in Dubai at the Australian Pavilion than to get the ACCC (supposed price and competition watchdog: degsy) to answer the question of why on earth a lamb that at the farm gate, killed and dressed, each with 32 chops and four roasts, gets farmers from between $3.50 to $5 per kilogram, yet the major supermarkets are selling it for between $17 and $34 a kilo.
Or examine why potato growers get 50 cents a kilo but shoppers pay between $3-$3.80...(degsy edit; or $4.80 depending which supermarket and/or suburb you live in...with the quality being barely average)
If investment in Australian renewables is going so well, why has he announced more subsidies for them? And if they are cheaper, why do we need to subsidise them at all?
Do you want politicians to offer a better deal on how you pay for dinner on the table for your family or a better deal for foreign companies to put up transmission lines and wind factories across countryside that should be producing steak, chops, carrots and spuds?
Do you want your politicians to concentrate on the cost of living in Australia or climate change in Dubai ?
"For those who can no longer afford dinner, you will be happy to know your government is jetting to Dubai for their number-one priority, action on climate change.
As the most simple home-cooked Aussie staple of lamb chops and mash soars to more than $25 for a family dinner, the Albanese ministry is set for a United Nations junket on lab-grown meat and methane taxes.
Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen is off to promote Australian land to renewables carpetbaggers at his second COP as Minister, where last year he signed us up to a global methane pledge.
Department of Energy and Climate Change bureaucrats told an Australian delegation to the global conference this week that this time he would focus on promoting and accelerating foreign investment into the Australian renewables sector.
While he flits around the Australia Pavilion, he will have little focus on agriculture.
In fact, COP28 has scheduled presentations to “understand why there is a critical need to invest in alternative proteins”, including “cultivated meat”.
It will also launch “a new, global initiative to address dairy methane emissions” called the Dairy Methane Action Agenda, sure to make milk more expensive and force more Australian farmers out, featuring “innovative approaches to public-private methane reduction in the agriculture sector”.
It is easier to be a big thing in Dubai at the Australian Pavilion than to get the ACCC (supposed price and competition watchdog: degsy) to answer the question of why on earth a lamb that at the farm gate, killed and dressed, each with 32 chops and four roasts, gets farmers from between $3.50 to $5 per kilogram, yet the major supermarkets are selling it for between $17 and $34 a kilo.
Or examine why potato growers get 50 cents a kilo but shoppers pay between $3-$3.80...(degsy edit; or $4.80 depending which supermarket and/or suburb you live in...with the quality being barely average)
If investment in Australian renewables is going so well, why has he announced more subsidies for them? And if they are cheaper, why do we need to subsidise them at all?
Do you want politicians to offer a better deal on how you pay for dinner on the table for your family or a better deal for foreign companies to put up transmission lines and wind factories across countryside that should be producing steak, chops, carrots and spuds?
Do you want your politicians to concentrate on the cost of living in Australia or climate change in Dubai ?
