Hewitt Pastoral Enterprises in Emu Park, Queensland | Agricultural cooperative

Hewitt Pastoral Enterprises

Locality: Emu Park, Queensland

Address: PO BOX 288 4710 Emu Park, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 As debate rages around the use of some drugs that aid in getting #zinc into our cells to combat #COVID19 there is no doubt as to the benefits of zinc itself in... improving our immunity, being an anti-inflammatory, an anti-viral and fighting everything from SARS to the common cold. Our body doesn't store zinc so you need to get your RDI everyday. The great news is, beef (second to the oyster) is the richest source of zinc. Our elderly and particularly those in care can be low on zinc, so this #fathersday or anyday take a of . If you want an extra boost lets bring back that 80's favourite the carpet bag! Of course if you prefer chicken you had better stop reading and grab a knife and fork, you've only got 1.2kg to plough through today. . #KimberleyRed #OinoGustus #AngusPastoral #Sondella See more

25.01.2022 A line of Poll Brahman hefiers sold today for $3544 each. Congratulations to Kenilworth Brahmans.

25.01.2022 HP Wagyu is happy to present our 3 sale lots in the Spring 2020 Elite Sale. Please note these three lots are exportable to most countries. Online bidding with E...lite Livestock Auctions https://elitelivestockauctions.com.au/index.php/bid-now/ #hpwagyu #elitesale #wagyu #mayuraprecision #sanjinamidoi #pollperfection See more

23.01.2022 Some HPE weaners feeding out in a holding paddock at Hanging Rock Station near Belyando QLD. Steers will head to Mt Rose Taroom and hefiers to Carmichael Station in the coming week.

07.01.2022 Celebrating our producers...the heart and soul of our industry, feeding Australia ... and the world! Custodians of the land who are passionate, professional and innovative. Thank you to Australian beef producers Dr Neil and Clare Farmer of Lake Learmonth, Charlie Perry of Trent Bridge Wagyu and Sam and Kirsty White from Bald Blair Angus for sharing your time and passion. https://youtu.be/a9Ou-Q60HEs Australian Government Queensland Government Meat & Livestock Australia Rockha...mpton Regional Council #beefaustralia #celebratingourproducers

07.01.2022 Some of the F1 calves and weaners out of our Angus cows at Mt Rose Taroom. Their mums are the recip cows for our March embryo program earlier in the year. Fingers crossed their mums will be having some Fullblood calves later in the year. #wagyuf1 #anguswagyu #hpwagyu #hewittpastoral

05.01.2022 It’s the tax payer who cleans up the mess of Government incompetence Almost 9 years ago, on the 7th of June 2011, the Australian live export industry was thr...own into turmoil. The Minister for Agriculture, Senator Joe Ludwig, decided to ban all live export from Australia after the ABCs Four Corners program aired footage of inhumane treatment of Australian cattle exported to Indonesia. Rather than listening to sound advice from industry and implementing sensible safeguards, the Gillard Government decided to simply ban a $1 billion industry without consideration of the legality of the decision nor the economic devastation it would cause. The live export ban was a symptom of a Labor Government clambering to minority power and driven by the 24 hour news cycle rather than sound governance principles. No one denies the importance of animal welfare but you don’t close entire industries based on isolated and unsubstantiated accusations. In 2014, 300 adversely affected Live exporters, the majority in the Northern Territory, launched a class action in the Federal Court of Australia seeking $600 million in damages. The action claimed that the decision of the Minister was invalid and was made recklessly. The lead applicant for the class action was the Brett Cattle Company lead by Dougal and Emily Brett from Waterloo Station west of Katherine. Sadly, not long after the commencement of the class action Dougal tragically died in a helicopter accident in 2015. Despite this horrific loss, Emily and her three young children and family, continued the fight. The case was backed and funded by the National Farmers Federation and the Northern Territory Cattlemens Union. The Federal Court today found in favour of affected live exporters declaring the ban capricious" and "unreasonable". Justice Rares was scathing of the Ministers decision in finding: "I am comfortably satisfied, based on the whole of the evidence, that the minister was recklessly indifferent as to first, the availability of his power to make the Ban Order in its absolutely prohibitory terms without providing any power of exception and, secondly, as to the injury which the order, when effectual, was calculated to produce. Accordingly, the minister committed misfeasance in public office when he made the Ban Order on June 7, 2011." Misfeasance in public office is the highest level of public tort available. It means that a public official has deliberately acted unlawfully and exceeded or abused a power of a public position. The threshold for establishing misfeasance is so high it is only applicable to very rare cases. The legal test is that the decision was so unreasonable that no public official would make the same decision. While the decision vindicates those affected by the abuse of power in imposing the ban, it will do little to offset the many thousands of businesses that have have had to struggle through carrying million dollars of losses for the last 9 years. The damages bill, in the order of $600 million, will be owned by the Federal Government but paid by us - the tax payer. The people actually responsible for the unlawful ban, namely Senator Ludwig and the Gillard Government will never be held to account. And maybe this has to change. Imagine if Minsters and politicians were actually held accountable, personally, for their decisions? Rather than hiding behind veils of Ministerial privilege and Civil liability exclusions, imagine if politicians remained liable for their reckless disregard for the significance of their decisions and the impact to industries and individuals? Imagine if Ministers and politicians were criminally liable for making unlawful, reckless or deliberately negligent decisions? The only fear a politician currently has is the ballot box. Accordingly, they make decisions which offend common sense, good government and good consciousness to appease those who might vote for them and castigate those who don’t. Tonight is a time for celebration for live exporters and a celebration that occasionally common sense prevails. Unfortunately, this is just one good news story against a long list of incompetent government decisions made for political expedience and with the knowledge that those decisions will never incur personal liability. Sadly, the tax payer is left to pick up the tab and clean up the mess. And it is only brave people like the Brett family who will hold us and them, all to account. And that has to change.

04.01.2022 #BREAKING The Federal Court has ruled that the 2011 ban on the live cattle trade to Indonesia was unlawful. The suspension was imposed after an ABC Four Corners... investigation exposed cruelty to Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs. Northern cattle producers and other businesses affected by the live export ban filed a class action against the Federal Government six years ago. Their lawyers argued that former Labor agriculture minister Joe Ludwig acted unlawfully and with disregard for the consequences, when he banned the trade with Indonesia temporarily in June 2011. Today Justice Stephen Rares, who'd been deliberating for 18 months, ruled in favour of the lead applicant, the Brett Cattle company. It means the current Federal Government is likely to be liable for up to 600-million dollars in compensation.

04.01.2022 Happy International Burger Day!! How many farmers are needed to create a burger? Maybe below will help!

02.01.2022 Only for our people I’m a proud Queenslander. But I am, and always will be, an even prouder Australian.... In 1900, when Sir Henry Parks drafted the rabble of the Australian states together as one Federation - it was the birth of our great country. Parkes dreamed of a nation united in common purpose, values and shared gain. In 1915, when young Australians sailed off to Gallipoli and died in foreign trenches they sacrificed under a common flag. In 1939, when we fought on foreign shores and defended our own island nation against foreign oppressors we did so as Australians - not for our post codes. I love barracking for Queensland in the state of origin just the same as I barracked for Ricky Ponting scoring a hundred, Ian Thorpe winning gold, Shane Warne turning them square, Lleyton Hewitt fist pumping at the Australian Open, Daniel Ricciardo in the formula one or Des Abbott or Nova Peris in the hockey. It’s fine to be parochial for your home state but we are all still one people living in a country girt by sea. No matter what your politics, you can only be ashamed of our Queensland Premier in her handling of the border lock outs in Queensland. 'People living in NSW they have NSW hospitals. In Queensland we have Queensland hospitals for our people,' she said. We have people from NSW literally dieing because they can’t get access to the closest hospitals which happens to be separated by a line drawn 150 years ago. We have parents in NSW who can’t bring their kids home from boarding school because the closest schools are in Queensland. We had, up until a week ago, farmers who couldn't access stock because of a border that has no relevance to their communities. We have family and businesses separated - not because of the risk of Covid - but because some moron thinks a border is more important than the risk itself. Victoria has been hard hit by Covid. More accurately Melbourne. There has very few cases let alone deaths outside of the Melbourne metropolis. Despite this, country Victoria is in a draconian lock down that serves little purpose or makes little sense. NSW or more accurately Sydney has a few clusters. But there has been hardly a case let alone a death north of Newcastle or west of Penrith. And while our Queensland premier is spruiking bread and circuses over landing the AFL grand final her state and her country weeps. Our Queensland economy was a basket case prior to Covid and is only now being propped up by Federal Government support - funded by all Australian tax payers. A true Australian or a politician with half a brain or heart would be offering support to their neighbours while they are suffering - not kicking sand in their eyes for their own political gain. Queensland has had 1000 Covid cases and 6 deaths. Compare this to Victoria with 20,000 cases and 576 deaths or NSW with 4000 cases and 50 deaths. It would make sense that those who are outside of Covid hotspots in those states would be allowed entry to Queensland for medical assistance rather than overload an already overloaded system in their own states defined by imaginary lines. The sad irony is that all state hospitals are funded by our federal government. The recalcitrance to reason by our Premier is bad enough. But the constant self-interested gloating is both sad and embarrassing. Actually it’s shameful. Here would be a real sign of leadership - instead of gloating about winning a AFL grand final in Brisbane by default for a sport very few Queenslanders follow yet alone care about - offer all of those tickets and free flights to country Victorians who are outside of the Covid hotspots who live and love and breath AFL. How about open the borders to kids and parents who live in NSW yet school them in Queensland but pose zero risk to the spread of Covid. How about offer all of the free beds that are currently in our hospitals set aside for a Covid spike that was never going to happen - to people who need our help, who are outside Covid hotspots but are just unfortunate to live south of our border. Covid has redefined the world we live in. Let’s just hope that the silver living is that we will also redefine the Governments we elect to govern us and those imaginary lines drawn 150 years ago. We are in this together - as one country, as one people. Let’s never allow lines in the sand to define us again. In the great words of Sir Henry Parkes: In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?