Conscious Evolution ....................

I'm tired of live cattle exports, of Halal, of ritual killing etc etc etc.  For God's sake what sort of world do we live in?  If we can't care properly for the animals we raise and consume then what chance do our domestic animals and our children have of having their needs met?  If you wonder how I can include our children in the equation then you're completely missing the point.

Every act that we perform or condone affects us spiritually and we just can't argue with that, it's the universal law ... the way we're made ... it's the system.  We have to grow up and take responsibility for our own actions.

If Holland can stop ritual killing in their abattoirs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13947163) then so can anyone else, it's just needs the entire system of raising the animals and turning them into meat to change.  We're being Luddites if we think any system can continue the same indefinitely.   Read Conscious Evolution by Barbara Max Hubbard -
http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Evolution-Awakening-Social-Potential/dp/1577310160

To the Queen!

"Those who write, erroneously, about the Queen's Birthday holiday being “an 
unnecessary link to the imperialist past “(Age 13/6/11) obviously know 
little about our current constitutional arrangements and care nothing for 
the will of the Australian people who, in 1999, voted to retain the monarchy 
with the Queen as our head of state and sovereign.

The Monarch's Official Birthday holiday is Australia's first and oldest 
holiday, having been so declared by Captain Arthur Phillip in June 1788, to 
celebrate the actual birthday of King George III.

It is held in the second week of June in all States other than Western 
Australia (which celebrates it in September/October) to suit an appropriate 
cycle of national holidays.

As long as Australia remains a constitutional monarchy, it is highly 
appropriate and fitting that we honour the Queen of Australia by celebrating 
Her Majesty's Official Birthday. 

Rather than whinging about the holiday, republicans should firstly put 
forward the detail of the increasingly illusive model they propose for us.

Philip Benwell
National Chair
Australian Monarchist League"
0419 417 097

Live Export

So the Government has today finally bowed to public opinion and banned live cattle export to Indonesia for 6 months while they sort out an Indonesian solution. 

Now Sen Barnaby Joyce is saying that it will damage relations with Indonesia!  Excuse me while I get the fingers out of my throat - the Indonesians have damaged the relations, not us. 

Furthermore it is said by someone (?) that beef farmers in the north are going to need compensation for loss of income.  Another 'Excuse me" required here.  If they were prepared to put so many eggs in one basket and that basket being making money from the suffering of their cattle, then they were in the wrong business in the first place.  And don't tell me that they thought the MLC levy was protecting their cattle, that's putting complacency ahead of common sense. 

Now let's get live export of all meat animals banned to all countries, they don't need to endure that trip never mind the end they might endure.