Hemp set to save the bush

Sally Cripps
Updated September 22 2015 - 2:35pm, first published January 14 2015 - 4:00am
An ecofibre seed crop south of Dalby.
An ecofibre seed crop south of Dalby.

MOST of us learnt at school that the colony that became Australia was founded as a dumping ground for convicts after the American war of independence, to be a ready-made workforce cultivating and processing all sorts of raw materials for the Empire.

Sally Cripps

Sally Cripps

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