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Canberra growth fuels ACT grazier views on population
Ken Champion of Cotter critiques rising Canberra population as creeping paralysis. He notes land leases and rising rents affecting farming, with farmers relocating or changing to non sheep use. He warns about pasture clearing, development plans, and rural decline while families increasingly move to suburban Belconnen and Deakin.
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