Regional telcos ‘failing pub test’

Colin Bettles
Updated March 21 2017 - 11:25am, first published 9:30am
Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president and grain farmer Brett Hosking.
Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president and grain farmer Brett Hosking.

WHEN Slim Dusty sang about a pub with no beer in the 1950’s - based on a poem by an outback farmer forced to abandon his local watering hole bitterly disappointed, after the war-rationed establishment was drunk-dry the night before by US servicemen - his iconic record went gold.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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