FED: Anderson appears out of step with Costello on bush wages

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-1999
FED: Anderson appears out of step with Costello on bush wages

Deputy Prime Minister JOHN ANDERSON appears out of step with Deputy Liberal Leader
PETER COSTELLO on how to bring jobs in the bush.

Mr COSTELLO, the treasurer, has predicted national unemployment could fall to under
six per cent if workers in rural and regional areas received lower minimum wages.

But Mr ANDERSON, National Party leader and regional services minister yesterday said
the real task for government was to convince industry that the bush was worthy of investment.

Meanwhile opposition regional development spokesman MARTIN FERGUSON has accused the
government of damaging the bush and ignoring rural youth.

He told the New South Wales Young Labor rural and regional conference in Bathurst that
Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD had invested little time and energy in rural and regional areas.

He said a Labor government would place regional development at the top of its agenda.

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KEYWORD: JOBS (CANBERRA)

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