Part Two

Sounds like typical bush grizzling, Peter, but the truth is, that farmer’s sons these days are better off working for a big corporate than staying on the land. Farmer’s sons now inclined to stay on the land would be better off to follow their grand-dads and become agrarian socialists, forming boards, etc, to protect their own interests mainly because both our Liberal and our Labour governments have lost so much interest in the bush owing to lack of votes through a decreasing bush population. .

There is an old historical saying, Peter, that if you forget about the peasants as you guys and our government seem to be doing you could have a revolution on your hands.

It is not that farms are not producing well, Peter, wheat yields in good years breaking records even in marginal areas. But when you have a Prime Minister who seems to adore a US President who abuses a friendship by having allowed 80 billion dollars in farming subsidies over the next ten years mainly to gain the votes of the American mid-West, thus possibly even keeping the Republicans in for a third term, should put a strain on our US Aussie friendship just more than a little.

What we are asking Peter, as farmers, is that you give us a clearer regime of the future of farms that are not only suffering through bi-lateral trade dumping but also the dumping of grainstocks both from the EU as well as the USA. Just ask any grain farmer in South America, and we could certainly add South Korea, as proven in the last WTO conference.

George C. WA - Bushbred