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August 31, 2007
The cartoon is black humour I guess. What will the gamblers and punters do?
The industry is in lockdown in order to quarantine the equine flu whose source is the Eastern Creek quarantine station. It's not just the cancellation of the Spring Carnival in NSW and phantom meetings ---it's also the lost of income and jobs of those battlers in the racing industry.
Moir
There was a breakdown in the quarantine system---poor federal quarantine procedures---by all accounts. Compensation is being talked about. Emergency relief is already being given. However, the maladministration at the government quarantine centre affects not just the thoroughbred racing industry but tens of thousands of recreational horse riders.
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As have said before this is just so apt- that the mob who have worked so hard to destroy AQIS for so long, are now under threat from a situation arising due to a buggered AQIS, at this stage of the election cycle.