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Bananas, food security and climate change

By Brian on June 16, 2009

When I posted about importing bananas from the Philippines back in April I was hoping for two things. First, that someone would enlighten me as to what Biosecurity Australia meant in practical terms when they said that individual cases of [...]

Posted in Climate change, Markets, Trade, Water | Tagged AQIS, Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, bananas, biosecurity Australia, food security, Gwynne Dyer, infectious bursal disease (IBD), International Organization for Migration, The Philippines, WTO | 80 Responses

Banana wars

By Brian on April 16, 2009

Everyone knows that Kiwis constantly try to subvert our Australian way of life. They did it, for example by sending us Jo Bjelke-Petersen back in 1913 and then again with Russell Crowe. Now they are sneaking Philippine bananas in via [...]

Posted in Politics, Trade | Tagged bananas, biosecurity Australia | 45 Responses

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