12 March 2008
Rethinking farming
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As Australia's most recent drought continues to affect large parts of the country, some farmers are still relying on Exceptional Circumstances assistance to keep afloat.
At the recent ABARE conference in Canberra, ministers, bureaucrats -- as well as some of the farming sector -- asked whether it might be time to review drought assistance.
As a nation do we need to be rethinking how and where we farm? Should we start redirecting drought mitigation money into relocating some of our primary producers out of agriculture?
Guests
Tony Burke
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Keith Perrett
Chairman, National Rural Advisory Council
Corey Watts
Rural Landscapes Coordinator
Australian Conservation Foundation
Professor Allan Curtis
Institute for Land Water and Society,
Charles Sturt University
Further Information
For a link to comments by Keith Perrett
For more information on the National Rural Advisory Council
Fo rmore information on Professor Allan Curtis
A link to the Australian Conservation Foundation - Healthy Rural Lanscapes program
For a link to the 9th permaculture convergence
Presenter
Paul Barclay
Story Researcher and Producer
Jane Shields
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