RMAC RED MEAT MoU REVIEW TASKFORCE WHITE PAPER CALLS FOR TOP DOWN DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD DEMOCRACY RATHER THAN BOTTOM UP GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WHERE THE LEVY PAYERS CALL THE SHOTS

The Red Meat MoU Review Taskforce White Paper published on 4 July 2019 recommended a red
meat industry restructure that is the antithesis of the findings and recommendations of:-
• the Rural and Regional Affairs Transport References Committee inquiry into the Effect of
market consolidation on the red meat processing sector handed down in September 2017
and
• the Rural and Regional Affairs Transport References Committee inquiry into the Industry
structures and systems governing the collection and disbursement of marketing and
research and development levies pertaining to the sale of grass-fed cattle handed down in
September 2014.

It was the findings of the 2014 Senate inquiry report that led to the formation of Cattle Producers
Australia Limited as a new truly representative advocacy body to replace the Cattle Council of
Australia as the grass-fed cattle Peak Industry Council.

The proposals in the Red Meat MoU Review Task Force White Paper are also contrary to the
findings and conclusions of the ACCC Cattle and beef study final report that was handed down in
March 2017 and a number of leading papers and studies into the effectiveness of agricultural
organisational structures referred to below.

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‘INDEPENDENT’ RED MEAT MOU REVIEW TASKFORCE WHITE PAPER CALLS FOR RED MEAT INDUSTRY TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

Last week Huntblog published an allegorical newsletter under a Red Meat Animal Farm (RMAF) banner pointing out the comparison between the Red Meat MOU Review Taskforce White Paper recommended troika of new corporations to replace the existing red meat industry organisational structure and novelist George Orwell’s 1945 classic fable Animal Farm allegory about the disintegration of the Russian Revolution into Moscow directed Stalinism.

This week, after further review of the White Paper, Huntblog becomes a little more focussed and down to earth and even more astounded by the audacity of the White Paper recommendations.

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RED MEAT ANIMAL FARM RMAF to replace RMAC

The Red Meat MoU Review Task Force White Paper published today recommends that the Red Meat Advisory Council (RMAC) be replaced by a new Orwellian Red Meat Animal Farm (RMAF) type body to collect all the red meat industry levies and provide a single whole of red meat industry strategy and advocacy voice to government.. An RMAF mega body whose board will be comprised of Peak Industry Council appointees and skills-based directors appointed by a selection committee.

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A LAND OF DROUGHTS AND FLOODING RAINS

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES

THE 2019 NORTH WEST QUEENSLAND DROUGHT FLOOD AND CATTLE DEATH DISASTER

The seminal lines in the second stanza of Dorothea Mackellar’s 1904 iconic patriotic poem about

Australia being a land of droughts and flooding rains and the opening lines of Charles Dickens’

1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution

suggesting that this particular period of history represented both the worst and best of times

seem to be apt to describe the disaster that befell Queensland’s north west gulf country at the

beginning of this month.

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