There is honest reporting and there is making up the news to fit a particular story.
ABC seem to have double standards in all departments, whether be handing our news to their cronies ot accepting payments under the table ot reporting good news then creating fiction and reprting it as news, to boost ratings.
If you lie down with dogs there is a good chance you will catch fleas and Lyn White is a sorry old bitch at best.
Indonesian beef prices have jumped from $4.50 a kilo (45,000 Rp) a few months ago up to $10 a kilo (100,000 Rp) in some wet markets.
It's understood the supply of cattle into local meatworks has become tight and has forced rolling stoppages in some Indonesian abattoirs.
The Indonesian Government reduced its reliance on Australia for beef this year, cutting import quotas for both live cattle and boxed beef.
Indonesia this year will import 283,000 head of live Australian cattle, compared to 520,000 in 2010.
According to the Jakarta Globe, the chair of the Indonesian Association of Small-Sized Meat Producers, Budi Mulyono, has called on the government to review its self-sufficiency policy and that he "understood the frustration felt by traders and butchers struggling to secure stock".
He said the problem was a result of the government policy and has called on the government to be wiser and not push policies that hurt consumers.
