Labor abandons farm sector on backpacker tax
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has called out the Australian Labor Party on its decision to walk away from Australian farmers by refusing to support a compromise on the destructive ‘backpacker tax’. With the Bill cleared today for introduction into Federal Parliament, Labor has again failed to reveal its position on the tax, instead preferring […]
Farmers issue plea for MDBA to save Northern Basin communities
A dozen farmer and irrigator groups from across parts of southern and south-west Queensland and northern New South Wales have written to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority urging it to demonstrate that it cares about the social and economic impacts of its decisions. The Authority’s decision on the Northern Basin Review – due to be made […]