Frank wrote on Apr 4
th, 2024 at 8:19pm:
Exactly it's BS ... racism in the Agricultural sector?
Aboriginals were employed & still are employed as stockmen for as long as there's been a beef industry on the continent.
Now they get given large scale cattle stations all over the country & they're crying racism in the industry?
Mind you many of the stations handed over were failed concerns after a short period because they simply rounded up cattle when the wanted money & sent a few decks away until there were no cattle left.
Or they didn't manage them to the point where they allowed hundreds of cattle to die of thirst on a Kimberly station.
Quote:Two years ago almost 500 cattle died of thirst on Noonkanbah Station in the Kimberley.
Yungngora Association and its former chief executive have been charged under the Animal Welfare Act.
DPIRD is also investigating mass cattle deaths at another Indigenous-owned property in the Pilbara.23 Dec 2020
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-24/animal-cruelty-charges-laid-over-mass-cat... Quote:The operators of a cattle station in Western Australia's Pilbara region have been fined $50,000 over the deaths of cattle from serious neglect.
The Mugarinya Community Association, which operates the Yandeyarra Reserve near Port Hedland, was charged with animal cruelty after more than 1,000 animals died from thirst or starvation in January 2019.
It wasn't the first time Yandeyarra Reserve had a mass death incident. There was also a mass cattle death there in 2012.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/operators-fined-50k-over-death-of-1000-ca...And of course the old "RACIST" card was played as an excuse in the aftermath of this mismanagement/neglect on these Aboriginal Group run properties.
Quote:Pilbara racism row breaks out over mass cattle deaths.
Tony Barrass
The West Australian
Sun, 3 March 2019 2:20PM
A bitter war of words has broken out across WA’s vast north, with farmers claiming political correctness is silencing debate and outrage over the mass deaths of cattle on indigenous-owned pastoral leases.
As authorities confirm the number of dead has now passed 1000 head, WA’s peak farming group has called on Aboriginal groups, the media and “broader society” to have an honest discussion about the failure of some indigenouscommunities to manage pastoral leases.
“What’s happened here is no different from the (sheep carrier) Awassi Express, yet where is the outrage from governments and animal rights groups,” new WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington told The Sunday Times.
But Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan and indigenous leaders have hit back hard, saying the issue was far more complex than “racist” throwaway lines, while the RSPCA said it welcomed any initiatives to head off any more animal welfare “disasters”.
https://thewest.com.au/business/agriculture/pilbara-racism-row-breaks-out-over-m...