TRADE: Sugar industry study backs failed policies, not new solutions*

Clive Hildebrand’s report on the sugar industry commissioned by the Coalition’s Minister for Agriculture falls far short of what is needed, mostly because it remains totally faithful to the current economic and trade orthodoxies so comprehensively embraced by the National Party. Independent or otherwise, it is about as helpful to the industry as a sustained drought.Moreover, it is full of gratuitous and, in the final analysis, unhelpful advice.The executive summary says it all. We are told that …

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