The loss of long-time National Party seats in the New South Wales election begs the question: what is going on in the rural sector?
The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (SFFP) won the National Party strongholds of Murray (taking in a major irrigation districts in southern NSW) and Barwon (which covers 44 per cent of NSW west to the South Australian border and north to the Queensland border).
The Nationals may still hold Barwon’s nearby seat of Dubbo, but it suffered a 20 per c…
