Wide combs, Mudginberri and the march on Canberra: the NFF in the 1980s

Vernon Graham
Updated October 17 2019 - 4:53pm, first published October 14 2019 - 7:00am
THE BIG MARCH: Around 45,000 farmers marched on Parliament House on July 1, 1985, during Australia's biggest ever rural protest.
THE BIG MARCH: Around 45,000 farmers marched on Parliament House on July 1, 1985, during Australia's biggest ever rural protest.

The 1980s

The National Farmers Federation stamped itself as one of Australia's most powerful lobby groups during the 1980s by busting union domination of the shearing and meat industries and vigorously attacking the economic and tax policies of the Hawke Government.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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