AGRICULTURE: Sugar package, Clayton’s package*

Prime Minister John Howard has handed out a $444 million package to the sugar industry, focused on one year’s relief and aimed at tiding the government over the Federal election.While the media focused on the PM’s package, Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, was quietly pushing further deregulation of the sugar industry through State Parliament.On the one hand, the Federal package vindicates the year of protests organised by the Sugar Industry Reform Committee, which was told repeatedly by politi…

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