Australian Left Review

Article Title

Rumblings in the Rural Sector

Authors

Adrian Shackley

Abstract

The recent upsurge in farmer militancy has focused public attention on the plight of the rural sector. Adrian Shackley examines the causes of this rural crisis and argues that the new farmer politics of deregulation would only benefit a small, wealthy elite. Will farmers follow these new policies or can they avoid such dead-end conservatism?