ELECTION SPECIAL 2: Reversing the rural decline*

Because the largest part of Australia’s manufacturing industry is the processing of food and fibre off the farm, a high priority of industry policy must be to secure rural and regional Australia.Many Australian farmers have had negative incomes, or lived on barely subsistence incomes, for years. This will worsen because of the long-term downward trend in net farm incomes. The decline of agriculture is causing a serious decline in regional Australia. The continuing drought and the Australia-US Fr…

Sorry, you don’t have access to this content. Please log in or email [email protected] for help.