FARMERS were scratching their heads after the Prime Minister's speech last week to the Global Foundation Summit.
Comments claiming Australia must be ready to be the food bowl of Asia certainly raised a few eyebrows.
This would "involve building our food processing industry" and developing technologies that "strengthen irrigation and grow higher yield crops", Julia Gillard said.
So this would be the same country where major food processors such as Heinz, Berri, National Foods and SPC have closed their Australian factories, where irrigated agriculture will lose 2750Gl of water to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and thousands of hectares of productive farm land are at risk from coal-seam gas mining.
As NSW Irrigators Council chief executive Andrew Gregson said, there had either been a long overdue and greatly welcome change of heart on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan or an astounding policy breakdown between the Prime Minister and Federal Water Minister Tony Burke
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Editor's Note: One has to wonder how the Prime Minister sees Australia as "the food bowl of Asia", when not only are the mining companies forcing our food producing farmers off the land, but the major food producers are closing their food manufacturing factories. How the hell is Australia going to produce any food? Please tell me Juliar, I cant wait to hear the answer!
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