Hi Barnaby

Thanks for the e-newsletter containing many reports of the horrendous wastage of BORROWED MONEY by the Rudd government.

The government should maintain good radio contact for people in rural areas. But if they deprive farmers of the support and information they need, I think it is a further strategy designed to make farmers feel worthless and unwanted, and to remove them from their land.

I've never been so disgusted in all my life.

I often listen to the Rural Report and feel it is a great help to farmers and also gives them a forum - i.e. the recent Mad Cow fiasco. I guess that Labor does not want to be shown up on it's ABC as being farmer antagonistic. Socialists hate farmers as they are in the majority self starters, hard working, efficient and intelligent. They also look after the land much as the Green Socialists would have you believe they rape the land. Not so, that would effect their livelihood.

They have had a really raw deal because of the Native Vegetation Act which has now been exposed as a scam perpetuated by the previous and the present Govt
merely to appease the global warming socialists, resulting in the bankrupcy of many farmers, suicides, broken marriages and broken health. Shame!

This Govt has wasted millions of dollars on bogus schemes and have no right to lower the representation and integrity of regional radio. They think the votes of regional Australia don't count.

Keep up the good work Barnaby and your Party. Australia needs you!

Ruby of Toowoomba:

No, they just want farmers off the land so large corporations can take over. That's the name of the game. If they can divide the farmers, they can conquer them. This is what making them incommunicado is about.

On "Landline" on the ABC, there are often primary producers of items such as eggs and lentils who say they are being forced out of the market by large corporations such as Sunny Queen.

Yesterday they said our pork producers are being given a hiding by Canadian imports. I'm sure there were similar concerns 30+ years ago, in relation to pork and oranges. I remember farmers dumping truckloads of oranges on the steps of Parliament House, which I think deserved a round of applause.

I consider myself to be socially aware (but not communist) and I have an absolute patriotism to Australian farmers, small business people and workers.

Lots of people feel powerless to change the many abuses being inflicted upon our society, but there is certainly strength in numbers. Concerned citizens need to get up off their butts and do something.

If we cannot learn from history, there is little hope for a reasonable future. Just look at the performance of the Gough Whitlam 3 year debacle, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating and now Kevin '07. They all spent masses of money we did not have and it took the present opposition to manage us out of debt. "Kevin 07" in last year's budget predicted that the national overseas debt would go to $315 billion but he did not mention that he was also spending $115 billion of cash that he inherited from Johnny. Kevin 07 is becoming more and more dependent on his propaganda wing the "ABC". If you listen to Tong Jones and the Q & A programme and Kerry O'Brian's 7.30 pm session, it is very hard to be classify them as even handed.

E.J. Armstrong:

If you look at the parliamentary records on foreign debt, you will find it has continued to increase over the last 20 years.

The Labor Party just gives it a almighty kick down the path to global rule on a regular basis.

No Australian government has ever torn up the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Lima Declaration or Agenda 21, all of which have been around for decades.

I'm looking for politicians who are willing to do that.

I heard a terrible rumour emanating from Victoria that the Australian Meat Workers' Union is telling all of its members to vote for The Greens.

I think only a very stupid butcher or abattoir worker would vote for the demise of the livestock industries.