The reward of a home-grown ambition
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- The reward of a home-grown ambition
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The reward of a home-grown ambition
The Age – Jul 17, 2005
“My wife, Trudy, does the shopping but I often carry the bags,”says the newest member of federal cabinet. He has made it his top priority to support farmers who arefeeling a dual squeeze from the food giants: they can’t competewith cheap imported food and, when they do make a sale, they areincreasingly forced to accept lower prices. In an interview with The Sunday Age, the National PartyMP who has held the seat of Gippsland for 22 years, says he triesto buy Australian, even if it costs a few cents more, and ischampioning country-of-origin labelling in the belief shoppers wantto buy home-grown fruit and vegetables. “Like most shoppers, we’re in a hurry and that’s why, frompersonal experience, I know the labelling has to be stark andunambiguous to empower shoppers to make an informed choice betweenimported and Australian product,” he says. Mr McGauran bluntly says Coles and Woolworths have too muchpower over farmers, and he is worried that they are going to carrymore cheap imported generic products on their shelves. “In the end this will be decided in the court of public opinion. If we arm shoppers with all the information to allow them to make adecision in the way they need and they still choose importedproducts, then we’re sunk,” he says…
Mr McGauran has hit the ground running after his promotion tocabinet to fill the vacancy caused by John Anderson’sresignation. As a boy he had already decided to be a politician. While theother kids read comic books and listened to music, he read Hansardand listened to parliamentary broadcasts. “We would talk politics around the kitchen table the way otherfamilies would talk sport, and my father instilled in us a greatlove for public policy but also the excitement of the game ofpolitics. He always impressed on us that you had to be skilfulenough to rise to positions of influence to implement your ideasand convictions. He had his first taste of political success as a year 8 boarderat Xavier College, in Kew, when he won an election for “primeminister of the junior school” – not that the position carried anyauthority. His brother Julian, a Victorian senator, recalls Mr McGauran’sslogan was: “Don’t be a dag, vote for Mag”.
WiBro – Analysing Koreas home grown BWA standard
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – Jul 17, 2005
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No excuses for evil
Times Online – Jul 17, 2005
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. The news that the London bombers were home-grown will have come as no surprise to anybody who read this newspaper last week, although some sought comfort in the idea that a shadowy foreign terrorist cell was responsible. The banal ordinariness of the bombers’ lives fits the pattern of previous outrages. It could hardly be any other way; people who lead full and interesting lives do not commit such actions. Unfulfilled losers do. The search for explanations takes us into familiar territory.