Dear Mr Ludwig, former Agricultural Minister for Australia
Congratulations on your early retirement. We trust you found
your time as Agricultural Minister an enlightening one, and that after a few
years in the job, you are now able to tell a sheep from a cow from a horse’s
arse. We also hope you have learnt that livestock are not like iron ore, and
that they cannot sit idle at wharf side while you attempt to appease some 18
million voters on the Eastern seaboard.
Did anything you heard at any of your meetings with any
producers actually sink in at any point? We would hope so. We are sure any
future employers would expect the ability to listen and learn to be a
prerequisite, and to this we hope it has improved should you get bored of tax
payer funded pension benefits, benefits which those left decimated by your few
years at the reins (reins are the things which steer horses, at the opposite
end of the horse’s arse) would greatly appreciate.
