Disaffection with Federal policies arising from a decade of deregulation and free market policies is spilling over simultaneously in a range of rural industries including beef, pork, dairy, apples and pears, fishing, sugar, tobacco, and fruit and vegetables.At the end of June in Roma, western Queensland, 1,500 beef producers sent a strong message to Canberra that they were opposed to a new national Livestock Identification system to be introduced in July 2005, because it would cost conservativel…
