Confused by WA contract
IN regard to the decision taken to award the dry-docking contract to a Western Australian company (CP, 6/4).
There would appear to be a lack of due diligence in the logistics involved in this resolution.
For a Cairns-based vessel having to sail to Western Australia for dry-docking would appear to be a perfect example of a “no-brainer”.
It takes about a week for the voyage, and in that time the docking could have been completed here in Cairns, and the vessel back in service.
The Western Australian option would have the vessel out of service for three weeks with the added expense of the fuel bill and the inherent risk of grounding during the transit of the Great Barrier Reef as recently displayed by the Roebuck Bay. Ernie Sabiston, Gordonvale This is incorrect, I did not swear. This is backed up by analysis of the incident by Dr Helen Fraser who specialises in forensic phonetics.
If such language were to be used the then speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, as well as the opposition leader and manager of opposition business and others, would have been noticeably shocked and would have responded in the strongest of terms.
This was not the case. Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Defence Industry
No live export can ever be a humane method of transport.
Onshore abattoirs could and must be built now with this trade eliminated permanently by 2021.
This government did not investigate to ensure legislation was upheld.
It suited them all, even graziers, to look away.
Money rules this Liberal government and for many animal production businesses, often operated by overseas interests.
Workers on the scene, who speak out like the brave whistle blower, are sacked.
I know this from feedlot and caged poultry employees, both questionable industries, which also need independent scrutiny by surveillance cameras and for live export independent investigators, employed by the government.
The only political party in Australia advocating the stop to live exports is the Greens. Eugenie Navarre, Trinity Beach