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"My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs, and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia"

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A ban on beef exports isn’t framed here as a technical adjustment or a moral reckoning; it’s framed as a government choosing to pull a pin and walk away. Julie Bishop’s “My point is this” is a classic parliamentary throat-clearer that signals combat: forget the nuance, here’s the charge sheet. The real work is done by “totally” and “even to compliant abattoirs.” Those words turn a policy into an overreaction, positioning the government as indiscriminate and therefore irresponsible. “Compliant” is doing double duty: it reassures the public that standards exist, and it implies the ban punishes the good actors along with the bad, a rhetorical move designed to fracture support for the decision.

The subtext is political triangulation. Bishop doesn’t argue against animal welfare concerns directly; she sidesteps the ethical argument by shifting the arena to economic fallout and sovereign competence. If the government can’t distinguish between compliant and non-compliant facilities, the implication goes, it can’t be trusted to regulate at all. That’s an attack on administrative judgment masquerading as concern for industry.

Context matters: Indonesia is not just a market, but a strategically important neighbor. A “total” ban hints at diplomatic strain and lost leverage, not merely lost revenue. The closing phrase, “enormous consequences,” is intentionally elastic; it invites listeners in rural and regional Australia to fill in the blanks with job losses, farm closures, and cascading supply-chain damage. It’s a sentence built to travel: short on specifics, heavy on alarm, and calibrated to make policy feel like betrayal.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bishop, Julie. (2026, February 18). My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs, and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-point-is-this-the-government-made-this-75418/

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Bishop, Julie. "My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs, and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia." FixQuotes. February 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-point-is-this-the-government-made-this-75418/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs, and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia." FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-point-is-this-the-government-made-this-75418/. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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Julie Bishop (born July 17, 1956) is a Politician from Australia.

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