NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW

To:	Andrew Taylor <>,
Subject:	NSW Western Woodlands need your help NOW
From:	Penn Gwynne <>
Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:02:13 -0700 (PDT)

G'day Andrew and Bill and all,

It amazes me that here on the world's largest island we allow the planet to change our rainfall quota but nix or next to nix about using what were surrounded by?

We can take the salt from seawater you know? we can now convert seawater to drinking water? and at a very very low cost? small plants dotted around the coast filling storage facilities to at least fight bush fires? open air large tanks to give ELVIS a drink? cost would be neglible compared to the past few days in NSW?

I think big farms will go the way of many big things in life? kerphut!!! all farmers are held responsible for land degradation after all.

JAG De Whag

Andrew Taylor <>wrote:

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:08:23AM +1000, Bill Stent wrote:

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. I'm all for it but we already own much of the land - pastoral leases -
although we could similarly buy these out. In either case, government buyouts will be very unpopular in rural Australia - witness Peter Beattie's recent failed attempt to buy Cubbie Station.

The drought will continue the shift of agriculture from small operators to large business which has been occuring over recent decades.

The Australian recently had a striking cover picture of a child on a drought affected farm. Instead it should have had pictures of Janet Holmes a Court and Kerry Packer. Large enterprises dominate agricultural land use. This doesn't mean there aren't many small operators sufferring in this drought - but they control only a fraction of the land.

Andrew

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