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ACC leader’s call to action: Ag education needs to start now, and early

ACC CEO Anthony Lee providing the Rural Press Club of Queensland Malcolm McCosker Memorial Address at the Royal Queensland Show this morning.

 

Research by University of Chicago shows there is nothing more effective than investment in early childhood education.

However across most of Australia, agricultural study typically does not occur until year 10.

“And even then, it is only an elective,” Australian Country Choice CEO Anthony Lee said in this morning’s Rural Press Club of Queensland Malcolm McCosker Memorial Address at the Royal Queensland Show.

“It is too late.

“Our…

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