National body urged for development.  The Country Party would press for a joint Commonwealth-State Council for Industrial Development if the Government was returned at the elections, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, said last night. He said the council would assist in the co-ordination of government decisions and programs with a view to developing a comprehensive and forward-looking nation-wide policy for industrial development. Mr Anthony was delivering the Country Party’s policy speech in Lismore. He said there was wide support in industry for a more co-ordinating and concerted approach to Australia’s industrial development. We recognise this need and we shall be taking steps to achieve this objective, he said. The approach we shall be following will not be one based on the direction of industry by government, nor one involving inflexible master plans for the economy as a whole. Rather, it will involve looking and ... ahead in ... co-operation with industry much more than has been the case in the past. Our aim will be to help and encourage and guide industrial development. We shall seek to ensure that industry’s own policies can be established in the full awareness of the government’s policy. As an immediate first step, he believed the Commonwealth should discuss the establishment of the council with the States. From his experience of the great value to primary industry of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, he believed similar expertise on a firmly established basis within the government would be of real value to secondary industry in the development of policy. He would try to see that the Office of Secondary Industries within the Department of Trade was adequately equipped to do what he believed would be a task of major national importance. Mr Anthony also promised support for the wool, dairy and fruit industries. The Commonwealth would progressively lift its contribution for wool research and promotion in the next three years to $41,8 million a year.  Open-ended commitment. The States have been promised a $10 million grant in the Country Party policy to assist them in programs designed to assist and encourage cream suppliers to change over milk supply. Mr Anthony has made an open-ended commitment to the fruit industry to provide whatever assistance is necessary to facilitate adjustments in the industry. He stressed in his speech that he wanted an Australian Australia, whose people had the will to use their great resources and their resourcefulness to fashion a life of quality for themselves. He wanted an Australian society built on the standards and values that have served us well and which I see no reason to change. He said it had been claimed for some time that a big issue in the elections was the cities. He agreed with this. But another big issue not just in the election but in Australia’s future, was the country which the Labor Party relegated to a secondary status. There was a need in the country to stimulate expansion of industry to bring jobs and growing prosperity and give Australians the kind of life they wanted and where there could be city amenity with country ... and calm. For the first time, the Commonwealth Government had committed itself wholeheartedly to a program which could change the face of Australia. It had established the National Urban and Regional Development Authority and expected its spending to reach $80 million a year in the next five years. But more than legislation is needed, Mr Anthony said. There must be a determination by governments, by industry and by the Australian community to make this program work. Australia now has the chance to give its people a new kind of life in its urban and regional areas. The chance to show the world how a sensible nation can order and balance its development. The Country Party believes there must be a balancing of our desire for material goods and convenience with our responsibility to preserve the environment. We believe a very important contribution to this objective will be made by a more sensible distribution of population and industry so that natural systems are not overloaded. We believe there must arise a greater understanding of the need for every member of the community to accept the discipline and the cost of conserving resources and preserving the environment. The Country Party saw inflation as a real threat to the nation. It was one of our most dangerous enemies, not just an economic phenomenon but social evil. The inflation conflict was not a government fight. It was a battle the government could not win without the support of the people. Not until our national psychology of inflation is changed will real progress be made, he said. Not until we learn that there can be no real advance in living standards without real advances in productivity will there be real success in the struggle. Mr Anthony said the government had helped the wool industry fight its way through a crisis of unprecedented seriousness. The country Party, in the face of strong criticism from the metropolitan press and abuse from the Labor Part, really went out on a ...- we really stuck our neck out- for the woolgrowers of this country, he said. Let no woolgrower forget that. Let no country town or community which relies on good income forget it. Mr Anthony said that if, as he expected, the Australian Wool Corporation came down strongly in favour of the sound scheme of acquisition of the clip, the government  would work with the industry to bring about the reforms it wanted. It would work with the States to give the wool industry a new foundation of sensible marketing reforms. We want the wool industry to have, as soon as possible, the best marketing scheme it is possible to devise, he said. For wool research and promotion, the government will progressively lift its contribution over the next three years to $41,8 million a year. A three year total of $113 million. We will be looking to the industry to increase its contribution. The Country Party has demonstrated beyond question its determination and its ability to win through for wool. We are nor now going to loosen our grip. Mr Anthony said that Britain's entry to the Common Market made it urgent to assist cream suppliers to change over to the supply of whole milk to enable the industry to place greater emphasis on production of dairy proteins. He said the Commonwealth government make a grant of $10 million to the States to assist them to assist and encourage cream suppliers to change over to milk suppliers. Details would be worked out with the States and ... consultation with the industry. There was real concern for the fruit industry, he said. The facts on which to base a decision on the industry’s claims for currency adjustment assistance on export during 1972 were not yet available. Accordingly, the government had agreed to an interim measure to enable co-operative canners to bring payments to growers for 1972 fruit up to 85 per cent of the fixed price. He said the government would seek agreement with the industry and the states on what production levels should be and would then try to provide whatever assistance was necessary to facilitate adjustments. The farmer and those who depend on him across this nation ... affected by and must respond to change, he said. But in one thing there will be no change. And that is the determination of the Country Party and of the government to continue to strongly support rural industry in the interests of the people of rural Australia and of the nation. Mr Anthony said ... would remain a ... Country Party objective to seek further liberalisation of the taxation impost, especially estate duty. The Country Party welcomed the impact which the thinking of young Australians was having on shaping the nation. The party would look with growing determination for ways of bringing younger people into the main current of affairs and for ways of applying their energies and their enthusiastic approach to the solutions of problems. The Party had a special interest in the Northern Territory and against a background of rapid development, the government had offered the establishment of the Territory Executive to a minister some state-like responsibility with acceptance by the Executive of financial responsibility. If this offer was accepted, it would be the first step towards ... for the Territory. The Country Party wanted to see policies of orderly marketing which had worked well for agricultural products, applied to mineral resources. There must be orderly, sensible and responsible development of these resources, he said. Governments- Commonwealth and State- must work with industry to establish sensible, long-range programs for the development of our resources in the best interests of the whole of the Australian community. The Country Party’s objective was to extend the government’s principle of foreign ... to other forms of foreign investment as far as this could be achieved. We want to ... a real and effective partnership between Australia and overseas interests, he said. We want to see a national approach by all governments to ensure that Australian land remains in Australian hands to the maximum possible extent and consistent with the national interest. The Country Party wanted the Australian Government to pursue through every suitable channel, its objective of normalisation of relations with China. The Country Party earnestly hopes that solutions will be found to the difficulties which have so far stood in the way of a more complete recognition of China by Australia, he said. We hold this hope, not as part of a pecuniary approach, but because we want the Australian people as the Chinese people and all people to understand their place in the world’s family.