Issue 2003 May 03
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Queensland National Party moves to stop sugar deregulation
Eight months of protest by sugar cane farmers have stalled moves to deregulate the Queensland sugar industry.Now the National Party state member for Hinchinbrook, Marc Rowell, has moved a Private Member’s Bill aimed at halting deregulation by freeing-up some Queensland sugar industry practices and providing avenues for sugar cane growers to be released from the obligatory arrangement of using their product only for…
AGRICULTURE: Murray Darling farmers could lose 30% of water allocations
A CSIRO report has revealed that farmers in the Murray Darling Basin could lose as much as 30% of their water entitlements over 20 years, twice what the Murray Darling Basin Commission has suggested in The Living Murray discussion paper. Conservatively, the cost to governments of buying water to make up the volumes proposed would be $1.7 billion, which is probably more than…
