Shall we play the game
@[email protected] of how many top global land holding billionaire lobbyists are featured in the ABC's "authoritative coverage"?
#buffelgrass #Australia #colonialism #agricultureBuffel Battle: The environment...
Buffel Battle: The environmental impact of buffel grass
ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production
"Buffel grass is a life source for Australia's cattle industry".
When Australia's cattle industry = 80% exports, which includes over 50,000 McDonalds in 190 nations, maybe it's time to acknowledge the whole system is killing people + planet?
1st up, we've got Steve Hayes, Grazier.
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The Garden (pastoral station) - Wikipedia
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social so when anyone buys and sells cattle in Australia, they're funding lobbying groups by default.
The MLA is funded by transaction levies:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_%2...
Which means that you're looking at one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the world. Why?
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Meat & Livestock Australia - W... 
Meat & Livestock Australia - Wikipedia
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social MLA = 1 of the most powerful lobbying groups in the world because of Australian cattle ownership.
Rinehart. Murdoch. Forrest & friends.
A band in Newcastle's coal port = truth telling via their art better than anyone else.
@[email protected] a request:
#straya
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r2w7iqhngwiaopgkhmt7u63x/post/3m4ehghgjak23 @adriantomlinson.bsky.social not to be outdone, lets just go through this pack of lobbyists in the ALT tags.
Basically what we're looking here is the octopus tentacles of Meat & Livestock Australia, which they all roll into to do the same kind of right wing lobbying.
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#BuffelGrass #Australia @adriantomlinson.bsky.social When it comes to lobbying + BS, Australia's finest:
"For more than a century, pastoral families have worked across vast rangelands, shaping landscapes. They achieved it by developing it with purpose, & the opportunity to build on that legacy has never been greater."
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BIODIVERSITY IS BETTER ON BEEF... 
BIODIVERSITY IS BETTER ON BEEF » Territory Q
For more than a century, pastoral families have worked across vast rangelands, shaping landscapes that remain some of the most intact in Australia. They did not achieve this by locking the country…
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social Australia's largest pastoral holding/family is Hancock aka Gina Rinehart, and this is her families legacy. The worst contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. That's just for her father's mining. Plenty more where that came from.
#Australia #Asbestos #Mining
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Yurlu | Country - Official Tra... 
Yurlu | Country - Official Trailer
@adriantomlinson.bsky.social might you know what they're spraying with?
Obviously with
#buffelgrass, it's something hardcore. I'm guessing it's roundup aka
#glyphosate.
I have *issues* with glyphosate ⬇️
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r2w7iqhngwiaopgkhmt7u63x/post/3mecrta6cb22t @adriantomlinson.bsky.social
"This is something that's not from here. It's an invader. Not a lot of people like things invading their country, and not being able to do something about it."
- Garth Forrester, Central Lands Council, which caretakes land around Uluru.
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🖤💛❤️
#Australia
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@adriantomlinson.bsky.social One of the most interesting parts of this segment was Romy Carey from the Cattlemens Association.
"We will see unintended consequences, and additional regulatory burden."
Know anyone else concerned with regulatory burden?
Oh, color me surprised!
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Australia's mining competitive... 
Australia's mining competitiveness at risk from excessive regulation, says Rinehart
Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart said on Wednesday the burden of excessive regulation on the Australian mining industry had put its global competitiveness at risk.
Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️
