It’s annual operating budget has been slashed by 53% under Labor – down from $3.8 billion to just $1.8 billion. This, along with a dramatic decline in agricultural research and development, has seen Australia trail behind many developing countries in terms of our research and extension effort. Federal Labor’s cuts to agricultural research spending, eliminating the majority of Cooperative Research Centres and the abolition of Land and Water Australia have been extremely short-sighted given the challenges we face.
in favour of international cooperation with other countries, for example mentions the need for aid to developing countries, or global governance