To right ConservativeHippie, but it's going to be more a case of affordability, as not only will many food become unaffordable to many, they will also become unaffordable to produce, and this is my tip as to why the Chinese are buying up our farmland, because they know we won't be able to afford to work it.

In the future I fear we will be faced with huge wage reductions, or imported workers to work our land.

Well when its the fan, the demand for food will see a big increase in
community gardens and hunger will drive people back onto the land.
It will, hopefully, happen gradually.
I read an article recently which said the developing countries will not
become like us, but that we will become like them.

That has a ring of truth, don't you think ?

My bush block has solar and water, so effectively I could live there for next to nothing just needing some stock for food and a veggie patch. The cities may well be reserved for the elite, but even the elite rely on the masses for their incomes.

Those hardest hit by any huge downturn, are those who rely so heavily on others to produce what they so often take for granted.

As farmers die off, and given their average age is 57, that's a given, many will suffer much harder than others.

With unemployment rising at a great rate our economy is headed for consumer recession. Why do conservatives have to have a pool of unemployed. It's a manufactured crisis.
We will never be short of food, farming will end up on the stock exchange, and farmers will reside in collins street next to the NXE.
AT 3.3 billion / month over budget, and unemployment rising things can only get worse.
It's a delima that can be avoided with leadership, with Abbott not capable of any sort of leadership, and content for unemployment to run rampant we are in for lean times.

579, you can't be serious !
What makes you think the government has control of what is happening ?
The Labour government lost control of it also, and there is very little
that any Australian government can do about it.

Eventually, unless our governments can make a massive shift in policies
we will be like Greece, facing a choice to default on our loans or
go bankrupt and suffer government collapse.

The very last thing the government wants is higher unemployment, but
until they realise what is happening and adapt to the Zero Growth
economy it will get worse.
Bill Shorten is no hope, all he was able to parrot on Lateline was;
Growth, Growth, Growth, Growth, Growth, Growth.
He is not aware that struggling for growth is the problem.

Abbott told everyone the carbon tax was like a “python squeeze”, and an “economic wrecking ball”, that would “clean out your wallet” by driving the cost of groceries up and up, and involve even 70 per cent increases in the power bill, not to mention that it would “wipe out jobs, big time”.
So I think people may now be rather jaded by what’s happened since the carbon tax was removed.
According to the Bureau of Statistics, unemployment has actually increased and is at its highest level in the last 10 years, and households only got a measly 5.5 per cent reduction on their power bills instead of 50-70 per cent (in fact, in Queensland power prices still went up), and the overall cost of other goods continued to rise at levels similar to the recent past.
You could say it was a failed exercise, it only pleased the coal burners and co2 levels have been increasing ever since.
Sorry Bazz, but i am serious we are in dire straights with the biggest problem being business and consumer confidence at an altime low.
That is the one thing that must be avoided by government.
We need leadership not a heap of lies and backflipps.
Growth can be stimulated, but not by this govt; they have their needs to curtail growth and kill the economy.