Press Release
PGA CHRISTMAS WISH LIST 2009
2008-12-19
- An increase in profit margins for wool, grain, livestock and other rural commodities.
- Access to GM technology to bring producers in WA ‘up to speed’ with their competitors both globally and within Australia.
- Exposing the Emissions Trading Scheme for what it is – a tax and ensuring it’s defeat in the Senate
- Ensure that Governments realise the increasing problems that feral animals and pests are causing to WA’s rangeland and farming areas
- Achieving greater recognition of the importance of farmers by Australians of the role they play in feeding the world and the contribution they make to the Australian economy
- Stability in interest rates and global financial markets which will lead to a reduction in farm input costs
- The introduction of perpetual leasehold tenure for pastoralists
- Reducing government powers against private rural landowners and ensuring that there is compensation on just terms
- Reducing the bureaucracy of WA’s water reform process thus ensuring a more positive to the future development of WA.
- Educating young people of the advantages both financially and socially that the rural lifestyle has to offer
- Relocation of the Fremantle Port to James Point
- Ensuring that in any conservation debates that people realise the valuable contribution of agriculture
- Ensuring that the public realise the important contributions farmers make to animal health and welfare
- Funding to be released for the Rail Infrastructure Program
- The removal of the Grains Licensing Authority by the State Government
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