Ludwig achieves enlightenment on the perfection of his sneer. Yeah, right, give us a break.

And I again put the case re who's complaining and why?

On comparison to 60 year old Israel, if on arable land ratio nearly the whole population of Australia could live in, AND be fed from Tasmania alone, what then is mainland Australia producing and why will there be requests for aid during the next drought, flood or whatever? Why do our farmers go to that young country to learn?

What the heck is wrong with Australia's rural community? Salination, rivers dying and erosion - and they cant manage it themselves, needing me to dip into my pocket year after year

Peter it a tradegy what has happened to you and to so many others. This is no isolated incident. How do we make sense of it? We cant because what is increasingly happening can only be labeled insane. I have looked into what is behind all this and what I found is horrifying. There is a new (not really all that new )belief system driving the elite who are behind these decisions that are not all that easy to understand. Those behind it deliberately dont want us to understand. It is not just Australia and it is not just you, it is every where. Frankley individuals like you and me are expendable in the thrust for a completely transformed global society who worship nature and the earth as their god. In case you dont know it, what has happened to you is related to what was learned in soviet Russia. Marxism and socialism have now been beaten into communitarianism and that means you have to lose out for the betterment of the common global good. Sorry about that. I am not a farmer, I wanted to be,but my dad wouldnt let me, nearly all my relations have been farmers. You could try reading some of the stuff on www.crossroad.to to find out more or chasing up Henry lamb in the USA who writes to represent people like you and me. There is an answer, but while we have two established political parties who hold power and the majority vote for them because they tickle their fancies. Farmers and rural people like us have no leg to stand on and no one to represent us so we are expendable for the so called good of the planet. It is a farce a fantacy and we will end up with a hell on earth far worse than they did in Russia.

Why do (the minority of) farmers want to hold on in the course of so much suffering, sacrifice, lack of appreciation for their plight? Are they martyrs?

Haven't they learned to put themselves and their families first?

Why do they hold on in the face of such neglect? Why do they (the minority) chose to suffer?