Pig gets slight chest infection - top story!

I knew it was a good idea becoming a vegetarian , this way the Pig won't pass on its cold to me.

Robin Miller

Pigs ? What happened to goats ?

Yes I would have to agree Mike, net the Gov will be handing out money to cover there hard ship...

Richard

Think you are missing the point.

This flu has managed to circumvent Australias' supposed tough quarantine, is that not big news????? Maybe we should introduce foot and mouth and see if that is big news??????

It has been described as a tragedy, AIDS is a tragedy, horse flu is an inconvenience.

As a non-gambler I just cannot believe to hoo-haa about this issue. Yes I do feel sorry for all the people that work in the racing and other horse related industries that may lose some money out of this. Horse transport truckies and so on have been hit pretty hard. But people have income insurance. There will be various compensation schemes about probably funded by the taxpayer. It is not the end of the world....

But the carryings on about people not having the chance to gamble their money away (or is it washing dirty money?) just defy belief! Where are people's priorties??? The TAB's are anxiously looking for other stuff like dogs or NZ harness racing to offer people somthing to punt on!

There was an article in SMH about the Chief Steward of NSW racing earlier in the week. This guy has spent virtually EVERY weekend of his life trackside since he could walk. Last weekend he watched his young son play soccer and said it was almost a life changing experience. He spoke of a colleague who watched his daughter play netball for the first time ever.

I was amazed to see in one report that racing is apparantly the third biggest industry in Australia. Peter Costello has had a press conference about the effects of this "crisis" on the Australian Economy!

Imagine if all that money that was just frittered away and endlessly turned over at tracks around Australia was put to other uses. More likely the punter would just turn to the bloody pokies. Don't even get me STARTED on those things!

Anyway - enough of a rant for me. Back to enjoying the magnificent sights Australia has to see and what better way to do it that in a 4WD Toyota!

Cheers
Muddy

ever wonder what all the people who spend there time at the tab are doing now! they will need councilling wont they? surly they are entitled to compensation or something as well.

yep.....media hype
10's of millions of $$$ loss cos of the horse flu?

what about the $$$$$ lost to the economy when the common cold season comes around....in lost time prodictive hours

then we can add in ...I mean, do the equestrain varieties get paid time off cos their sniffling nose wont let them run fast enough? no just their board and keep...not with the human variety...they get paid sick leave (whether they have the cold or not...just telling the boss they have it says they are entitkled to paid time off) and this ($$$$$) cost is on top of lost productivity.

Humans dont even rate a mention when it comes to the common cold let alone the Asian flu...even the deaths of some elderly and babies due to the Asian didnt get that sort of media hype!!!

flipping journalists ...worse than pollies

I am concerned about OUR quarantine issues, the fact this got in in the first place.

As for the horses and their flu, I know its bad and there is/will be a big $$$ fallout. When I'm sick with the flu it's also a big $$$ fallout but no one gives a rats as$ about that, or for that matter heaps of people going off sick also has a huge impact on people, business and the economy, no body really cares about that.

Like someone said, what about the water issues on the Murray, this will effect many people as well and will take many years to recover and who cared about the citrus canter that devastated central Qld fruit industry.

What about our hospitals (Leigh Creek) for example, a heap more $$$ in this area is needed through the country.

I feel their are more pressing issues that need to be highlighted.

The horses flu will sort out and be back on track so to speak soon, but the quarantine issue MUST be fixed.

Brian