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Article: Farmers to get up to $25,000 each as part of rescue package
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2004
Farmers to get up to $25,000 each as part of rescue package
Australia's sugar farmers will receive up to $25,000 each as part of $444 million federal
industry rescue package announced today.
About 7,000 farmers -- most in a handful of marginal government held seats in Queensland
-- stand to benefit from the package unveiled by Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD in the sugar
processing town of Bundaberg.
Farmers and the sugar milling industry have largely welcomed the package, but a national
organisation warns it will only provide short term relief.
The key element of the package is 1.46 million worth of so-called sustainability ...
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