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<pre>Motley, there is indeed a lot of olives being planted in Australia.

A recent commentator on olives in Australia said......'Australia does not
have an olive industry, Australia has an olive TREE Industry!" In about
2010 there will be a sudden rush of olive oil produced in Australia.

ALL

If I can find the references to the current position in Australia I will
post them. In the meantime, there is a very good white paper on the
feasibility of an Australian Olive Industry, produced by the RIRDC (Rural
Industries Research Development Council of Queensland). It is available in
Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format at the following site:

www.rirdc.gov.au/pub/handbook/olive.html

and the current Research and Development Plan covering 1998-2002

www.rirdc.gov.au/pub/olive5yr/

Regards,

Phil
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