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Life Source the new force to fight regrowth clearing bans

29 Apr, 2009 04:40 PM
THE latest “movement” aimed at challenging the State Government’s clearing moratorium and the extreme green movement has a new identity – Life Source.

Running with the slogan 'Life Source – The land: It's the lifeblood of our future', the group is being spearheaded by a core group of science and marketing professionals.

As reported in last week's Queensland Country Life, a stand-alone group of young landholders was nominated at an AgForce forum in Rockhampton on April 20 to unite Queensland's rural sectors and fight the land clearing moratorium and the bigger green movement's attacks on agriculture through a special fighting fund.

Over the past week the group has rallied around, and now with its own name and brand, aims to have a handful of professionals employed full-time to drive strategies in the campaign starting next week.

Life Source founder and vegetation mapping consultant, Peter Mahony, Woolshed, Theodore, said the group had worked hard over the past week to establish foundations and put "nuts and bolts" in place to push Life Source forward.

"Since last week a lot of professionals have just come to us, people who are involved in some way in agriculture or have a link, and said 'this is what we do, how can we be involved?'" Mr Mahony said.

"We're starting to build that core group of professionals so we can do this professionally.

"It's going at a rate of knots and it's been a busy week, but I'm really confident that it's coming together well."

The movement aims to raise more than $10 million towards funding a multi-faceted education and awareness campaign.

The group will be officially launched in Rockhampton tomorrow.

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Agriculture desperately needs a proactive, professional, positive voice to counter the continued attacks by those who see us as whingeing farmers. Too often we ARE whinging farmers, and I hope Life Source can find a way of projecting a positive message that will appeal to the urban masses. There is no point making statements or doing actions that make us feel good or look good to us. Our actions must impress the citizens of Brisbane, and we will only do that with a positive, factual and catchy message, backed up with meetings such as Roma yesterday. But we will only succeed if we are energetic enough to hold our meetings in Brisbane where the press and people we want to inflence reside. That is where we need to sell our message, and every farmer needs to be singing off the same positive songsheet, and singing to every city cousin.
Posted by JB, 30/04/2009 6:37:18 AM
What happened to the previous group called Property Rights Australia and the millions that were donated to this group that were to solve the same problem? Makes you wonder who sets these groups up and what their real intentions are. The only solution to the problem when state laws remove the landowners viability to farm, is to ask the "State" to purchase the land back and return it to the crown. No amount of teeth grinding and outrage will work against state laws. Let the "State" purchase the land and the Greens can look after it. I would imagine 1800 landowners letters to Ms Bligh asking for their land to be purchased back might cause some concern to the "State".
Posted by John Michelmore, 30/04/2009 10:00:39 AM
JB, after 20 years as a rural rights advocate one gets a little weary of calls like yours for all of us to sing from the same "songsheet" in some sort of mass grovelling to an imaginary single urban mindset. It hasn't worked to date and shows no sign of ever working. A third of the urban public are as disgusted with this government as farmers are. Another third are so welded on to the ALP that they are willing to excuse culpable medical care on a grand scale. The remaining third come from a range of backgrounds and have a range of exposure to rural issues. So a single message aimed at just this third will still suffer from mistargeting.

Our first priority must be to burn into every brain the fact that something is very seriously wrong with this government's MO. And the worst way to do that is by "impressing them" with one of your "positive, catchy and factual messages" (a.k.a. white noise). If we do not learn from the French farmers, who have the runs clearly on the board, then we are not learning at all.

Posted by Ian Mott, 30/04/2009 12:42:39 PM
The one thing for sure is that we must do something to show the masses that this present government has no ability to goven. Whether it is done in one voice or not, it must be done.
Posted by J.L. Farmer, 30/04/2009 10:13:36 PM

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