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24.01.2022 China buys 30% of Australia's exports. The news that China accounts for thirty percent of Australia agricultural exports demonstrates how reliant the Australian rural economy has become on the People's Republic of China. That news caused some to question the wisdom of the marketers of Australian food and wine in placing such a heavy reliance on just one customer. That is valid question, but did you know that China buys 30% of [ 4,019 more words ] http://globalfarmer.com.au//the-china-paradox-and-wolf-wa/
22.01.2022 Mr Albanese, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, has a poor grasp of Australian political history. Mr Albanese recently roundly criticised Treasurer Josh Frydenberg for channeling Margaret Thatcher and the policies employed by her to ensure the much needed economic recovery in the UK following Prime Minister James Callaghan and his self inflicted demise in his 'winter of discontent' of 1978/79. [ 3,224 more words ] http://globalfarmer.com.au//the-myth-of-a-level-playing-f/
21.01.2022 Lang Hancock's 1979 Queensland-Pilbara Rail-steel Proposal comes to life in 2020. On the morning of Sunday June 11th 1975, passengers aboard Lang Hancock’s 70th Birthday Wake Up Australia! jumbo-jet flight will be flying due east from the Pilbara towards Alice Springs over some of the most desolate country in the world. Below them will be the proposed route of the Pilbara-Queensland Railway the visionary scheme which may within a decade forge a link of steel across the north of Australia. [ 3,118 more words ] http://globalfarmer.com.au/2020/06/project-iron-boomerang/
15.01.2022 Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill. There now seems to be a general consensus within the community and especially within the agricultural community, that Australia's reliance on China has lulled us all into a false sense of security. We have been complacent. We have been happy to accept the contribution China has made to our standard of living by making available to us a range of 'goods' at prices that have been more than acceptable. [ 2,546 more words ] http://globalfarmer.com.au/2020/06/building-for-the-future/
13.01.2022 The Story so Far. The question that should be asked is whether large swathes of wheat growing land in Australia and particularly in Western Australia will be viable in the future? Because if the answer is no, then now is the time to start looking at the ways and the means for restructuring Australia's wheat belt. There are two conflicting forces at work. [ 3,838 more words ] http://globalfarmer.com.au//is-the-future-of-wheat-growin/
