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Is there a prosperous future for the Australian bush? : Comments

By Everald Compton, published 4/12/2012

Have we killed the legacy of John Flynn?

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Time for regional Australia to succeed from the urban areas.
Of course we would have a free trade agrement, but would be total free trade, not this version that govt calls free trade, that only works on our income, and excludes our expences.
Posted by dunart, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 7:46:23 PM
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There certainly could be a prosperous future for the Bush but inevitably the academic experts will put their fingers in the pie & it'll be ruined in no time at all.
Keep the experts away & there is an extremely good future.
Posted by individual, Thursday, 6 December 2012 6:53:00 AM
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For a future for the agriculture regions, we need the same free trade policys that we sell under applied to when we buy. Nothing less will do, as any thing less will still mean discrimination against agriculture.
For instance, how much longer can this country maintain the policy of indexing wages to the price of energy, meaning it takes the same amount of hourly wages to buy energy today as it did 50 years ago. Actually I think the figure is less, but lets not go there yet.
It's is a cost to the economy, and hence comes out as higher production costs for agriculture, who don't get there income indexed to a similar figure.
Posted by dunart, Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:01:40 PM
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The RFDS is very much alive and well in the bush despite there not being enough Government subsidy for this all-important service. Flynn's Mantle of Safety is in evidence everywhere you travel in the Outback, and the RFDS remains a rightly revered Aussie icon by the locals. Health and education (School of the Air) is very much in evidence; Alice Spring SOTA runs on a dedicated Skype band which covers an area twice that of France and is quite an amazing set up; Longreach SOTA has an incredible Distance Ed program which is well resourced and well staffed (bravo Qld dept of Ed).
Why then is there so little public works development in the Outback? Not just in rail infrastructure, but especially in water catchment development?
Here is my townie logic: if Shepparton in Victoria is effectively drought-proof courtesy of the irrigation wonder of the Waranga Basin; if Kidman was able to "drought-proof" his vast empire by shifting cattle up and down Western Qld; if big corporations can grow cotton in the Hay Plains and if Birdsville is regularly flooded out and in need of a ferry to move traffic, then it seems to me that it is possible to put in a string of "Waranga Basins" throughout the Barcoo and beyond, trap and regulate floodwaters and actually use limited irrigation throughout the Murray-Darling Basin to enhance the Outback towns that currently exist out there. Good for farmers, good for Greenies, good for Australia.
Posted by TAC, Monday, 10 December 2012 8:32:41 PM
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