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OPINION: $333m in subsidies should have been issued as loans

If Government is confident there is going to be a return to taxpayers on the $333 million government it has handed out in Primary Growth Partnerships, why are they not issued as loans instead?

Jamie Ball
Sat, 10 May 2014

If the government is confident there is going to be a return to taxpayers on the $333 million government it has handed out in Primary Growth Partnerships, why wasn't the money issued as loans instead?

That’s a question Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy was reluctant to answer recently – when

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Jamie Ball
Sat, 10 May 2014
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OPINION: $333m in subsidies should have been issued as loans
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