No, I liked that I had to think so hard to give answers that I was happy with, so don't apologise. Other people had sent me questions too, but I lost them with the great email disaster of '09.
I had fun with the montage. And anything that requires someone doing mean things to me has to feature Mitch.
I'd really need to get in with full power though. Wouldn't get the vast majority of what needed to be done going in without it. The two big problems of politicians - aiming to please the city-folk when so much of our primary industry in the country needs help, and no long-term planning, which pretty much goes together, and ends up screwing both the city and country folk in the long run.
There has literally been a 70% drop in dairy farms in the last 12 months around Cohuna/Echuca. They don't have the water, so they can't produce the feed for the cattle, which means they're buying hay from places like South Australia and paying a fortune for it. Milk companies are paying them less for milk, so most are ending up heavily in debt and they're selling up to get out of it.
But no-one wants to set up farms at the moment because they don't have enough water to make them a going concern. Currently they get no water at all between April and October - they're expected to get by on whatever rain there is, in the seventh year of drought. Less dairy farms means less locally produced milk, which means more imported milk (which may have anything in it), and higher prices, so the city folk still end up screwed anyway.
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I had fun with the montage. And anything that requires someone doing mean things to me has to feature Mitch.
I'd really need to get in with full power though. Wouldn't get the vast majority of what needed to be done going in without it. The two big problems of politicians - aiming to please the city-folk when so much of our primary industry in the country needs help, and no long-term planning, which pretty much goes together, and ends up screwing both the city and country folk in the long run.
There has literally been a 70% drop in dairy farms in the last 12 months around Cohuna/Echuca. They don't have the water, so they can't produce the feed for the cattle, which means they're buying hay from places like South Australia and paying a fortune for it. Milk companies are paying them less for milk, so most are ending up heavily in debt and they're selling up to get out of it.
But no-one wants to set up farms at the moment because they don't have enough water to make them a going concern. Currently they get no water at all between April and October - they're expected to get by on whatever rain there is, in the seventh year of drought. Less dairy farms means less locally produced milk, which means more imported milk (which may have anything in it), and higher prices, so the city folk still end up screwed anyway.
/rant mode
Anyway, no, I liked your questions :D