Rural debt a legacy of “get big or get out” mentalitySir,I read with interest “Major debt crisis in rural Queensland” (News Weekly, February 26, 2000). Unfortunately, the problem is not restricted to Queensland – the debt level in rural Australia is constant in all states and has been for two decades.Australian rural debt first became a major problem in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in most cases was compounded greatly by drought, flood, etc. During the first years of the “Get Big or Get O…
