The government was, he said, "a metropolitan elite which has no understanding of the rural way of life and cares even less about the people who live there".
In contrast the simpler, frugal life of the rural tribespeople seems to leave them with a greater sense of contentment.
The continent's vast interior - "the bush" - captured the first settler's imagination, giving the colonies their mythology of shearers, miners and bushrangers. (Before 1903, a swim during daylight hours could get you arrested.) But as the 20th Century dawned, the coastal cities boomed and rural life was eclipsed by the new nation's factory jobs and suburbs.
So, what do the graphs and tables tell us of the reality of rural life in England today?
We talked about the RFK trip, schools, health, the joys of rural life.
This was the closest I could get to ordinary North Korean people and it was in sharp contrast to the poorer, harsher views of rural life I got during the trip east.
The government is due to publish a rural White Paper in the spring, setting out ideas on rejuvenating the rural economy and country life.
The tourists come for the unpolluted beaches or to soak up rural life at one of the small resorts that dot the coastline.
The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
Filling ones tag is not imporant, but the whole experience is important, and I truly believe the further we get away from tha rural way of life, the weaker we become as people and a nation.
Broadcaster, actor and writer Stephen Fry, who is a big fan of the series, described the drama on the Archers website as depicting "a 21st-Century village, with all the pressures of modern rural life".
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"Farming and the countryside and much of rural way of life is now under threat as never before" - the source of the threat he then identified as an "arrogant out of touch urban dominated Labour government".
The roads are generally in terrible condition, and the hardship of life in rural Georgia comes as a shock.
The movement of rural Indians to urban life could play a big role in achieving that rate.
Both Shetland and Aberdeenshire also feature in the top 50 rural areas quality of life survey for Britain as a whole.
Nor have the demonstrations made any real impact on the lethargic way of life of rural Kosovo, which is now largely peaceful.
With the financial contribution of 541, 666 USD, the Government of Norway sponsors a UNESCO project in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, centred on improving the museographical conditions of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life.
In his 2003 film The Station Agent, he played a man who moved to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude after the death of his only friend.
Keane was best known for his plays Sive and The Field, which depict the tragedy that often characterized life in rural Ireland.
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If you need to escape the city, you have easy access to the historic Golden Ring towns of Sergiev Posad, Suzdal and Vladimir, where you will be rewarded with a slice of rural Russian life far from the frenetic city pace.
And the fact that it talks about real life, it's something that is happening in the rural areas.
Now I see a counterpart to the American 1920s, with the first sizable generation of moderne post-rural life.
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We have lived here for over six years and it was our choice to move to a more rural area because we believed the quality of life for our children would be better.
Now if only China would play nice our great grandchildren may be saved from rising sea levels and they can live a less stressed more rural kind of life just like the rest of the world in the old days.
But in crowded cities the great outdoors is rapidly becoming an elite destination - rather than a life-sentence to rural poverty - and domestic tourism is taking off along with the consumer lifestyle.
The National Museum of Wales sites in rural areas - including St Fagan's Museum of Welsh Life near Cardiff - have closed to the public.
But the biggest reason for the show's appeal is what it says about rural life.
The rural South in the U.S. and American gangster life are also known as an honor cultures.
Spreading from its agricultural origins to Korean people of all walks of life in both urban and rural areas, the dance has evolved considerably since it was brought to China at the end of the nineteenth century.
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