I think the influence is more evil than ANZAS. I think the US has a stranglehold over our pollies. There was a rumour that the last time Australia stood up to the US, our $A nosedived. The rumour was that unless we behaved, it would keep going down. Look too at the rollercoaster ride of the $NZ. It has taken NZ years to recover.
regards Doug On Thursday 15 June 2006 7:51, leo bunyan wrote: > Hi Doug > It's not a matter of if the EPA laws will be introduced in Oz but When. > I saw a journalist on the telly the other night that said "what happens in > the US follows on to Aust." We now have fire ants in Oz that came from 2nd > hand Agriculture equipment imported from the States because when we > complained that the quarantine standards from the States might be a bit > slack the States accussed us of being difficult to get a long with now we > didn't want to offend our ANZAS treaty partner so we just deciced best we > let them in. The same is going to happen with GM > Pity > Leo > > Doug Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a local shrub also > (little man trying to be like (& liked) by George...) > There is some GM in Aust, but it seems not to have a toe-hold. > > I was wondering, with our govt signing the US FTA (Free (as in not...) > Trade Agreement) if the EPA laws that have been watered in the US will be > introduced to Australia?? > > regards Doug > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:20, Chris Lloyd wrote: > > > But for the contamination: they are fed on genetically modified > > > protein: would you trust it??) < > > > > No, I do my best never to eat any GM products but it's not easy with the > > US pushing GM products and out stupid PM acting as Bushes puppet. Luckily > > there is a large proportion of the population that is anti GM and most > > supermarkets don't want to loose trade. One brewer even started using GM > > Soya in its beer, funnily enough consumption crashed. Chris. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biofuel mailing list > > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > > messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/