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NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW

To: Bill Stent <>
Subject: NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
From: Kiran Krishna <>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:10:18 +1000 (EST)
Bill,

Well, primarily because a contract ought not, on behalf of the public, to
take advantage of the dire needs of a proprietor, in order to appropriate
his property. An individual is free to be immoral, but the government
ought not to be. 

Kiran


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Bill Stent wrote:

> Me too.
> 
> Typical economist's suggestion - why doesn't the government take equity -
> partial ownership of farming land - in return for their drought relief
> handouts?  This goes for all other bailouts to the private sector as well of
> course.  Marginal farming land gained in this way could either be returned
> to productive use in better years or (better) retired, rehabilitated (maybe
> as part of the infamous work for the dole system) and covenanted.  
> 
> That way taxpayers (which includes the farmers themselves - those of them
> who pay tax) get some sort of eventual bang for their buck.  
> 
> Or is that using the "N" word - nationalisation?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: REID Colin 
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 7:52 AM
> To: 'Peter Waanders'; Birding Aus
> Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
> 
> 
> I'm with you, Peter, you're not alone! 
> 
> > Colin Reid
>       Brisbane
>       Email: 
>       
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Waanders 
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 7:59 PM
> To: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006

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