Issue 2004 September 25
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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…
ELECTION SPECIAL 1: The real issues facing Australia
The 2004 Federal election campaign is being fought around taxation and family payments issues, but may well be determined on security issues, following the bombing in Jakarta of the Australian embassy, Pat Byrne reports. Important as are national security issues, of equal importance is Australia’s loss of economic independence as the foreign debt soars towards $400bn, equal to almost half the nation’s annual…
