Today, like every other day another $36.5 million leaves rural and regional Australia, a staggering $13.2 billion every year.
Rural towns and cities continue to suffer, businesses close, farmers forced off the land, jobs lost and more and more young people moving to the major cities to study or find work and in some cases young people relocating to other countries to complete agricultural degrees.
Clearly something needed to be done and in March 2009 the Rural and Regional Unit Trust was established with a brief to build a new national Superannuation Fund for rural and regional Australia.