004 # 28 –"It's not the first time and won't be the last time. Is the current situation any worse than previous ones? Doubt it. The crafty spinmeisters will apply their trade and walk away clean as blank sheet of A4.
I have made a promise, to myself. If this happens again – I quit. I'll set up somewhere quiet, posing as a mildly eccentric, harmless old buffer, shoeing horses, growing rhubarb, training elephants and throwing empty beer cans at visitors. The industry has allowed the current mess to develop, bullied and brow beaten into submission and arbitrary compliance. The facts are there, the statistics are there, the aberrations are there. The Minister and the Senate panel know this as fact; there are 260 submissions supporting the arguments. The last hurdle will be the Truss decision and if the industry cannot jump this last fence and secure it's future, then it's game over.
Whistles up dogs, ambles off muttering - Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb.