Water cuts to cost jobs & leave regional Australia vacant
INDEPENDENT analysis released today by Judith Stubbs and Associates shows cuts to water entitlements in the Murray-Darling Basin will potentially lead to massive job losses and, subsequently, decimate regional communities. “It is ironic that while politicians talk about over population in our cities looming cuts in the Murray-Darling Basin could foreshadow the biggest depopulation of […]
Coalition ‘smart’ on R&D & practical environmental solutions
THE Coalition’s Agriculture Policy, released today, embraces major initiatives driven by the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) to resurrect Australia’s flagging investment in essential productivity-based research and development (R&D) for agriculture and seizes upon practical on-farm environmental solutions. “The Coalition’s policy combines a range of key measures that, collectively, will improve the capacity of Australian farmers […]