Meetings take fresh approach to debt

Sally Cripps
Updated September 22 2015 - 1:32pm, first published March 25 2015 - 4:00am
Barry Hughes and Rob Atkinson are exploring a possible new approach to the mounting debt facing rural Australia in a round of meetings this week.
Barry Hughes and Rob Atkinson are exploring a possible new approach to the mounting debt facing rural Australia in a round of meetings this week.

AFTER spending much of 2014 hammering the subject of rural debt in Canberra, northern cattlemen Rob Atkinson and Barry Hughes, together with Noeline Ikin, are now trying to gauge interest in a collective bargaining approach to maintaining viable grazing operations in the bush.

Sally Cripps

Sally Cripps

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