Issue 2005 July 02
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RURAL POLICY: Water trade to shift water from farms to cities
Farm leaders are up in arms at the latest proposals for separating farmers’ water rights from property titles, reports Pat Byrne.Anthony Gray is a dairy farmer on the Campaspe Irrigation District at Rochester, northern Victoria. He and other farmers depend on 20,000 megalitres of water rights, which is based on the water rights attached to their farms. (One megalitre is about one Olympic-sized…
QUARANTINE: Government appeals against court ruling
The Federal Government is being accused of compromising Australia’s quarantine standards for the sake of free trade, reports Pat Byrne.Australia’s $1 billion pork industry is being threatened by fresh pork imports carrying Post-Weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS), a disease deadly to young pigs. It has cost the European Union A$1.5 billion in lost production.Australian Pork Ltd went to the Federal Court to challenge…
