Bird Cage News
Bird Bandits Fly In To Take Rural Livelihoods
Sunday June 14, 1992
In the western Wimmera bird bandits are stealing the crops. This means the loss of a livelihood for many farmers, the end of the sunflower industry in the Wimmera and enduring rural frustration with city bureaucracy. Gil Ampt runs a 380-hectare farm about 65 kilometres from Horsham and is the p