BBQ backdown on the food safety act

Add puppets to the list of RiotACT merchandise (stickers and t-shirts) I’d like to see. 🙂

johnboy said :

because it was provided on condition I not publish it.

And if I did publish it then I wouldn’t get things provided anymore.

Is this a f*&king Police State?

I imagine it was something like this:

http://www.johnhartstudios.com/wallpaper/images/wiz18001200.jpg

(Let them eat cake)

johnboy said :

because it was provided on condition I not publish it.

And if I did publish it then I wouldn’t get things provided anymore.

Fancy that, the good old ACT government ensuring that facts don’t actually get reported ! I guess that’s why they own the place 😉

So did your audio sound something like:

Chief Minister Katy Gallagher says the new food safety regulations were never designed to target charity barbecues.

“The changes we brought into the Food Safety Act were really around the increasing prevalence of venues that sell food and sell high-risk food to the community,” she said.

“For example supermarkets, petrol stations, large sporting organisations are all selling food that were not subject to the same regulations or standards that restaurants are.”

Ms Gallagher says the laws will now be changed to exempt temporary food stalls selling low-risk items.

“Certainly the feedback we’ve had from the community is that they don’t think the barbecues, sausage sizzles should be subject to food safety standards,” she said.

“I have a couple of areas where I have some concern with that, but certainly the overwhelming view is barbecues, sausage sizzles should be exempted and we are currently working on a way to do that throu gh the law.”

Ms Gallagher says it is easier to exempt community barbeques and sausage sizzles than introduce new laws which could become confusing.

“People if they buy sausages from a sausage sizzle, they do it at their own risk, they make their own judgements about that,” she said.

“But we will concentrate our efforts on the other temporary food stalls. It’s not everyone exempted, but a particular group.”

which now appears on the ABC website?

Not shitting on you, 100% curious . Why can’t you share the audio and what would be the consequences?

punters all said sheesh!
at laws for snags and fresh quiche –
so our burghers flipped

Apparently the plan hit a snag.