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sell off the farmAustralian / NZ Sell the capital assets of a country to foreign interests: the government is happy to keep selling off the farm...- Critics within the oil industry say that the government is selling the farm, and that it should have confined the international oil companies to oilfields which had been discovered but not developed.
- "We are selling off the farm and pretty soon there won't be any farm left," he said.
- There is, however, growing disquiet in the community about what many see as selling off the farm.
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