“As the proportion of people actually on the land reduces in our nation, the political requirement of those who are there to be heard increases. This means you must speak up and do so in the most effective way.
We have to not accept what we are told is inevitable but fight for what is fair. We have to continually push back against our assets and income being used as an offering for someone else’s often misinformed conscience. We must not believe that politicians are all on our side so we must drive hard so that their survival is determined a great deal by ours. We have to understand that the greatest threat to our future is our apathy and like an open gate we are the only ones to blame if the horse bolts on us.
There is no such thing as a disorganised farmers’ threat. This movement is there to be seen from TV to the street from one side of our nation to the other, from the oldest to the youngest. From the shearer, live cattle producer, cane grower to the oyster grower. This says we understand no one is going to secure our future but us.”