While Australia continues to pursue the policies of deregulation and free trade, US President Bush has declared that US agriculture is a strategic industry. His statement was made to justify the latest, massive $200 billion Farm Bill for the next six years. President Bush announced in January that US self-sufficiency in food is a “national…
The Federation of Australian Business and Agriculture (FABA) has told the Federal Government Independent Assessment of the Sugar Industry that the industry is facing a serious crisis. It is worth $2 billion to the economy in a good year. Deregulation has left the industry trying to compete both in the domestic and international market at…
The feeling among many farmers is that, within the latitude the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) and Biosecurity Australia have to determine what animal and plant materials enter Australia, these organisations interpret the rules in the direction of the free trade ideology rather than in the direction of protecting the nation’s agricultural and environmental interests.…
"Building the Movement in 2002" was the theme set at the 2002 National Conference of the National Civic Council, held at Melbourne University on February 2-3. NCC National President, Peter Westmore, told the Conference that over the past three years there has been a generational change among the officers of the Movement: "We did not…
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