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NSW Farmers blasts Hume Highway delay
3:22 PM AEST | The NSW Farmers’ Association says the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is taking too long to make decisions regarding the upgrade of the Hume Highway in Southern NSW, and this delay is affecting rural people’s lives and businesses.  | Drought support 'timely': NSW ... | Qld re-affirms compulsory 5pc ...
3:16 PM AEST | Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industries and Water, David Llewellyn, has updated to Parliament on drought assistance provided to farmers and rural communities.  | Drought support for 32 areas ... | Drought support 'timely': NSW ...
Drought support for 32 areas nationally
2:29 PM AEST | Drought support for 32 areas nationally has been extended to March 31, 2009 by the federal government. Exceptional Circumstances aid was due to expire in most places on September 30.  | Drought support 'timely': NSW ... | Interest rate cut needed, ...
2:28 PM AEST | Yorke Peninsula in South Australia has become the nation’s first community to successfully achieve a region-wide, broadband service, using WiMAX wireless technology.
Drought support 'timely': NSW Farmers
2:23 PM AEST | The NSW Farmers’ Association says the announcement by the Federal Government to extend Exceptional Circumstances assistance until early next year for a number of areas in NSW is timely and welcome.  | Interest rate cut needed, ... | Zero allocation for northern ...
Qld re-affirms compulsory 5pc ethanol in fuel by 2010
19/08/2008 | The Queensland Government has re-affirmed its commitment to compulsory 5pc ethanol in blended fuel by 2010, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ease the financial burden, as well as reduce reliance on increasingly expensive oil imports.
Hands off Murray cod
19/08/2008 | Murray cod will be off limits to recreational fishers in certain Queensland waters from September 1 until November 30.
Organics: plenty of opportunities, but some potholes in the road
19/08/2008 | Unlike conventional farmers, organic farmers cannot just expect to grow and sell large volumes of produce without significant investment in planning, communication and marketing strategy, organic growers have been warned.  | Top of the table WA olives | Olive growers move to lift quality
19/08/2008 | Victorians in rural and regional areas are dying of heart disease at a worrying rate because of a lack of preventive services and treatment, experts say.
18/08/2008 | Research into climate change, water management and managing Australia's unique ecosystems are some of the world leading CSIRO science to be conducted at the new Ecosciences Precinct at Boggo Road Urban Village, Brisbane, due for completion in 2011.
18/08/2008 | More than $20 million in research and development funding is up for grabs as the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation seeks ideas and innovations that will help strengthen and diversify rural Australia.
18/08/2008 | The Rudd Government’s proposal to accelerate buy-backs in the northern Murray Darling Basin will not alleviate the current crisis at the mouth of the Murray, and will decimate already struggling communities unless the Government reinstates the $1.5 billion structural adjustment package.
Food price inflation may slow because of falling commodity prices
18/08/2008 | Over the past several weeks, prices for farm commodities have trended lower although they remain fairly high by long-term trends.  | Weak $A lifts farm export ...
No mites in Asian honey bees
18/08/2008 | No varroa mites or other exotic bee mites have been found in samples from an Asian honey nest and swarm recently found south of Cairns.
Termination fees hampering water trade
16/08/2008 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says high termination fees imposed by water companies on irragators wanting to sell their allocations is hampering the water trade.  | CommentsComments (3) | WA rust pathotypes hit eastern ... | Paroo ban on new dams 'breached'
Giant wind farm for south-east Qld
15/08/2008 | It’s being reported as the biggest wind farm to be built as yet in the southern hemisphere. Costing over $1.2 billion, the proposed wind farm will be build in cattle country near Kingaroy, in south-east Queensland.
Paroo ban on new dams 'breached'
15/08/2008 | In 2003, Bob Carr and Peter Beattie announced a pact to protect the Paroo, the last free-flowing river of the Murray-Darling Basin almost completely untouched by irrigation.  | CommentsComments (2) | Rudd forced to buyback more water | Weak $A lifts farm export ...
'Rudd’s carbon tax bad governance,' says Vic ag scientist
15/08/2008 | The Rudd government’s carbon pollution tax is based on non-scientific and theoretical computer modeling and does not make good governance at a time of rising inflation, global food shortages and increasing export uncompetitiveness due to rising cost and freight pressures.  | CommentsComments (18) | Paroo ban on new dams 'breached' | Voluntary buyouts OK, but be ...
Voluntary buyouts OK, but be aware... there is no water
15/08/2008 | The acceleration of water buyback in the Murray-Darling Basin is understood by the National Farmers’ Federation, which today congratulated Kevin Rudd for his Government’s commitment to national reform – including recognition of water property rights and purchases from ‘willing sellers’ only.  | CommentsComments (2) | Paroo ban on new dams 'breached' | Rudd forced to buyback more water
First ABS ‘basin’ statistics report seen as milestone
15/08/2008 | The Murray-Darling Basin Commission has welcomed the first Australian Bureau of Statistics publication to treat the basin as one discrete statistical area.  | Paroo ban on new dams 'breached' | Voluntary buyouts OK, but be ...
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Buy back the water licences; then what happens Mr Rudd?

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?
  Rudd's sleight of hand wears thin
  Rudd's sleight of hand wears thin
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