5 November

We’ve had so many years of brilliant PR from farmers about being poor and downtrodden that it’s always forgotten that farming was the original wealth and privilege in Australia. The settler land-grabbers, who literally stole vast quantities of the continent for themselves, much unlawfully, and created empires of landed wealth. Just look today at how many farmers were found out rorting superannuation tax concessions by putting their entire farms into self-managed super funds, to avoid paying any tax at all. That’s the same landed gentry mindset still at work. And now the party supposedly representing them run hysteria campaigns about windmills and climate change, because they know fossil fuels fund the status hierarchy they’ve been sitting on top of since 1788. Their time is over.