RURAL AFFAIRS: Push for a rural reconstruction…
Calls for an Australian reconstruction and development bank to take the risk out of $7 billion in bad farm debt has been supported…
RURAL AFFAIRS: Should we restrict foreign ownership…
Restrictions on the foreign buy-up of farmland are needed, at least until an accurate register of foreign ownerships is established. However, the issue…
PRIMARY INDUSTRY: Fruit-canning industry laid waste by…
The famed SPC Ardmona cannery has slashed its fruit intake, cancelled contracts with farmers and called for an emergency tax on imported canned…
RURAL AFFAIRS: Dairy crisis part of wide…
The worsening crisis in the dairy industry is symptomatic of a deeper malaise afflicting Australia’s farming community. In mid-January, over 600 people attended…
RURAL AFFAIRS: Huge cost of abolishing national…
Large, sausage-shaped storage bags dotted across the rural landscape are a sign of the disaster unfolding since the single selling-desk for wheat was…
