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Posted: 17/08/2008 | The Federal Government has bolstered the cash available to buy back water licences, the greens have published their wishlist of properties to be targeted, and the drought has more farmers than ever classing themselves as 'willing sellers'. But after the water is gone, has anyone wondered what happens next? | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 11/08/2008 | Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter should be feeling nervous after a voter backlash almost stripped Labor of power in the Northern Territory - the first sign that voter unrest is about to break Labor's strangehold on the States. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 6/08/2008 | The ACCC's grocery price inquiry - and the mainstream media's reporting of it - has missed the point that farmers have been making: while grocery prices are going up, farmgate prices often are not. So what is happening in between? | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 30/07/2008 | There is strong public sympathy for the plight of truck drivers, but the bitter rivalry between trucking lobby groups meant the message behind this week's strike was lost in the noise. | CommentsComments (9)
Posted: 21/07/2008 | Tariff barriers to be lowered and farm subsidies cut - a dream outcome for Australian primary producers, but the world only has one last chance to achieve the negotiating breakthrough. Pardon my cynicism, but we've heard it all before. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 15/07/2008 | 'Sex' - put that in a headline and a newspaper is guaranteed plenty of readers. But such is the fascination with global warming that the words 'climate change' are starting to have the same effect. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 30/06/2008 | A series of polls conducted around the country last week have pointed to dangerous times ahead for Labor's grip on power in all States and Territories. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 13/06/2008 | I hate to say 'we told you so', but unfortunately the warnings of farmers and the rural media don't seem to have the same weight as those of Justice Ian Callinan when it comes to quarantine. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 6/06/2008 | This week saw the dismantling of one of The Nationals last great policy markers, the single desk, leaving the difference between it and the Liberal Party slimmer than ever. But does that mean the two entities should become one? | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 30/05/2008 | Whatever happened to biofuels? The debate about countering fuel prices this week has focussed on everything except addressing the nub of the problem: breaking Australia's dependence on foreign oil. | CommentsComments (18)
The week observed
Observations of each week's major rural news and what they mean for rural Australia.

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