Bananas

So, due to a bit of wind up north, Australia is about to imminently run out of bananas. How has that effected imported bananas though you might reasonably ask? Well it hasn't but bananas are banned from being imported into Australia (yes, that's Australia - a 'free market' economy) due to the dubious reason of wanting to keep exotic bugs out of the country. The real reason though lies in the fact that the Nationals and Liberal party want to keep their banana growing mates happy up in QLD by preventing competition in this sector (competition being an anathema in many sectors of the Australian economy). So we, the consumer, suffer again and we now have no bananas to eat. What a load of balls. The Agriculture minister, Peter McGuaran says this:

"People will have to understand that their unsatisfied yearnings for bananas are infinitesimal compared to the suffering and hardship of the banana growers of north Queensland." "We all have to put it into that context and bear the pain for the next nine to 12 months."

No one has even begin to suggest that our suffering is comparable to theirs. But all we ask for, you dimwit, is that you lift the ban on imports for the next year so we can get our potassium & smoothie fix When the QLD bananas come back online we can revert back to your Sovietesque system of import control and you can tell the dirty phillipinos to fuck off again. But until then let the philipinos flood the country with their produce - we need bananas god damn it!