April 26, 2014

If the headline to this article sounds ridiculous, you are correct. But this figure is symptomatic of the problem faced by Tony Abbott and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce in setting new policy directions for Australian agriculture from their current inquiry into agricultural competitiveness. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.  In recent times, our governments have been told time and again by their various agencies that Australian farmers export 60 per cent of their product. The problem is that, as the following example of wine exports illustrates, they have calculated farm exports using a statistical fallacy. To explain: All high school students studying…