Ausfailure’s apple growers were today shocked to find that their 90 year battle to prevent decent apples from New Zealand being sold to the long suffering apple eaters of Ausfailure is about to be knocked over like a row of sh!t cans after the World Trade Organisation ruled the ban was an unacceptable trade barrier.
Aussies using unacceptable methods to give their second rate sports teams a much needed leg up are an everyday ockerance as the world well knows and it’s no surprise to find that Aussies use the same methods to prevent their citzens from eating great apples.
NZ apples were first banned from Australia after fireblight was found in Northland, in 1919, probably after infected nursery stock was imported from California.
There have been a series of failed talks over the issue, which led to the Kiwis taking a complaint to the World Trade Organisation in 2007, on the basis that constraints proposed by their Trans-Tasman neighbours were an unacceptable trade barrier.
Lifting the ban will see Aussies finally being able to buy the best apples in the world instead of the rubbish their government forces them to eat now.
Apple lovers from Ausfailure were ecstatic on hearing the news.
“If you thought the New Zealand rugby league team were deserving world champions wait until you try these apples” said a fan from Bummee New South Wales.
Aussie apple growers were stunned by the ruling but it is unlikely they can do much about it other than whinge and bleat and cry and moan.
“Fair trade should include protection from superior apples from New Zealand so that the Aussie public are forced to stomach the crap we grow” said one Aussie apple farmer.
“New Zealand apples are so much better than ours so if they go on sale here we might have to lift our game and that could require us having to think hard and do a bit of work” he sobbed.
“We simply can’t compete with New Zealand on a level playing field so it’s bloody crook that the World Trade Organisation hasn’t accepted this and given us the protection we need to keep selling junk apples to Aussies” he bawled.
“Hopefully Aussies will boycott the Kiwi apples and keep buying our inferior ones. We just have to hope and prey that all Aussies are as dumb as me” he boasted.
The ruling is expected to be challenged by Ausfailure’s apple growers with many demanding core samples.
