Posts tagged 'Barnaby Joyce'

After Thirty Years Of Scandals, Barnaby Joyce Still Too Much Of A Coward To Ban Live Export

With yet another horrific live export scandal still making news around Australia, the AMIEU is greatly pleased to see more Australian politicians standing up for animal welfare and for local…

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$146 Million For Overseas Abattoirs While Australian Workers Bleed Out

Only days after holding a series of press conferences in which he promised to investigate the latest, horrific live export scandal where hundreds of sheep lost their lives, Agriculture Minister…

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Another Day, Another Live Export Scandal

Shocking footage has emerged of animals being mistreated, made to suffer in horrible, disgusting conditions, and dying by the hundreds as they lie bleeding in their own excrement. The government…

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Barnaby Joyce Exposed As Incompetent Hypocrite Who Must Resign

The whole of Australia is now realising what meat workers have been talking about for years – that Barnaby Joyce is out of control. Australian media have spent the last…

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Thomas Foods Brings In More Visa Workers While Youth Unemployment Skyrockets

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made a shock announcement back in April, declaring that the 457 visa program was dead and buried, and that it was time to put Australian workers…

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End The Live Export Rort: It’s Time To Put Local Jobs First

The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern NSW Branch is today calling on the Federal Government to urgently back away from spending taxpayer money propping up the live export trade. Millions of…

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More Money For Live Exporters As Local Kids Go Hungry

The Australian taxpayer is about to take another hit propping up the Australian live export industry, following an announcement by Barnaby Joyce over the weekend that he has allocated $8.3…

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Compulsory Unionism For Farmers, But Not Workers

Wealthy businesses and conservative politicians have a long history of working together in Australia to break up organised workers and make life difficult for unions. Lead by John Howard and…

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Clueless Barnaby Joyce Spits On Australian Meat Workers

Australia’s drunken uncle Barnaby Joyce has continued his extraordinary campaign of attacking Australian meat workers, demonstrating once more just how fundamentally out of touch he is with the rural Australia…

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Government spends $2 million to train overseas meat workers as cruel live export industry carries on

Australian meat workers, already reeling from the ongoing meat industry crisis, were stunned today to learn that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just signed a new deal…

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