Lockie, Stewart (2016) Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia. The Conversation, 8 June 2016. pp. 1-6.

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[Extract] Rural and regional Australia is a big place. That's obvious enough. Still, it's easy to forget that the communities and industries of non-metropolitan Australia are diverse. They face a variety of challenges and often have different, if not competing, stakes in government policy.

But what are the issues that deserve attention leading up to the 2016 federal election? While not everyone living in rural and regional Australia will see eye-to-eye on how these issues should be resolved, I will return to this list closer to election day to see just how many have made their way onto the national political agenda.

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Keywords:	agriculture; climate change; mining; Great Barrier Reef; Tony Windsor; youth unemployment; regional Australia; rural health; automation; Barnaby Joyce; natural resources; rural development; Indigenous employment; rural Australia; Indigenous disadvantage; employment data; agricultural emissions; cities & policy; land use; federal election 2016; rural farming
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