I'll watch that Nail - thanks.

It makes you woner why Australians are turing into a dumb population by allowing their fertile land to be sold to foreigns.

You would actually think the media would take notice of this and make it a major concern, and ask politicians why they are doing this, because it will effect all the media too.

Well just consider all the disasters around the world in later years .. and I can see lots of nation are stocking up food .. especially China ..

culldav wrote on Feb 8^th, 2011 at 11:23am:


probably because we are so hooked on credit as a major source of income then nothing else matters. The media appears to be the least concerned about agricultural production and manufacturing these days

useless media

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 8^th, 2011 at 12:35pm:


They can only see as far as the next election. They want to concentrate on the short term mining boom, instead of thinking about long term sustainability.

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 8^th, 2011 at 12:35pm:

... and shelter!

The elements will kill ya!

We grow food for fuel. no.....not fuel to keep us running, fuel to keep our cars running. Have you seen skeletons driving around in their big new SUV's?

I agree with many comments made, but especially the one about the Governments and politicians being asleep at the wheel.

Before the last election the ABC aired a program highlighting the substantial foreign investment in Australia’s fertile Agricultural land, but nothing has been seen or heard of since.

My question has always been: if foreign owned companies can buy up large agricultural land in Australia and make it profitable, then why can’t the Australian Government buy this land and keep for Australians and make it profitable.

We see these pollies every night from the Liberal and Labor parties on some media format spruiking about how good they are with financial management of this country, but if they cannot make a basic farm profitable, then how can they make a country profitable.

It simply doesn’t make any sense to claim you can do one, but not the other.

We need a group of politicians that are going to start caring about Australia and Australians and putting our needs and concerns first.

Only stupid, short-sighted dumb-arse country sells its major assets, natural resources and agricultural land to foreigners.

Two properties down from my fathers, the old fella has been running a profitable wheat farm for the past 6 decades. 2 years ago at the age of 73 they decided to retire and sell the property as they had no children to inherit it. One of the first things they did was write to the State and Federal Governments asking them if they would be interested in purchasing the land. Besides being advertised for sale domestically it was also advertised for sale internationally,  as it consisted of 6,500 acres.

They never received a reply from the State or Federal Governments.  7 months the property was sold, and the new owners are now The People Republic of China.

Obviously the Chinese could see the value and potential of the land whereas the Australian State & Federal Governments must be still asleep, or on “junkets” somewhere.  

Here is just one example of an Australian food basket being sold to a foreign Government with no interest or concerns from the Australian Governments at all.

perceptions_now wrote on Feb 9^th, 2011 at 4:01pm:

Yeh, except that the energy is not being consumed by the overpopulated!

 
Talk about vested interests trying to obfuscate the truth!

 

Tonight SBS 1 at 8.30.

It's not unreasonable to expect that future wars will be fought for food and water, not oil.

sorry, I saw the end of it. Pretty good.


fewer people solves the problem

Rising cost of oil looks to lift loo seats


IT'S about two weeks since oil prices hit a two-year record of $100 a barrel. With oil prices expected to hover around the $100 mark for the rest of the year, it looks like oil will be the next big thing to eat into your pockets.

YOUR SUPERMARKET TROLLEY

Many of the items you put in your supermarket trolley each week are either made of oil, or were transported there using it.

"Oil affects the price of everything," says Michael Kelleher, energy trading analyst with Bord Gais. "You can't produce anything without energy and oil is often the energy -- or within whatever is producing that energy.


http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/rising-cost-of-oil-looks-to-...

Fertiliser prices have already shot up over the last few months. No surprise then that the price of flour, which is made from wheat, jumped by 13.3 per cent last year while the price of breakfast cereals (often made of wheat and barley) was up 6.3 per cent.