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Part of the NFF’s plan involves $375 million “to establish governance and reporting frameworks for each precinct” – in other words, a bureaucracy that will operate as a self-funded lobbying machine.
This week, after it was confirmed that agriculture has never been so lucrative, the farmers’ lobby asked for – and this is sadly predictable – more subsidies.
The National Farmers’ Federation proposed 20 towns, from Toowoomba in Queensland to Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia, for preferential government treatment.
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