A review of the Poultry Meat Industry Act 1986 ('the Act') is being conducted in accordance with the principles for National Competition Policy NCP legislative reviews which are set out in the Competition Principles Agreement CPA between the State Governments and the Australian Government. The purpose of an NCP review...
Polls show that a huge majority of Australians--up to 90 per cent--support the ban on genetically modified GM crops. But this did not stop John Brumby, State Premier of Victoria, bowing to pressure from big agribusiness and announcing in November that he would not renew the current moratorium. ...
The NSWNA Drought Relief Fund was officially launched at the conference by Graeme Eggleston, the NSW Drought Coordinator of the Department of Primary Industry DPI. Members are urged to donate to this worthwhile cause. Money raised by the Association will go directly to families in need to help...
SYDNEY, June 28 Kyodo Hundreds of Australians have been forced to evacuate their homes as residents in Victoria's southeastern Gippsland region brace themselves Thursday for the state's worst floods in at least 17 years. And a 60-year-old man from Mount Macedon...
Byline: Richard Macey Jul 10, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- University of Sydney ecologist, Chris Dickman, says dingoes should be reintroduced to New South Wales NSW to protect native animals from feral ones. Dickman told a biodiversity and...
Byline: Laura Tingle Jun 05, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Irrigators in New South Wales NSW will be compensated for loss of groundwater entitlements. The Australian Government has resolved how the compensation will be taxed, an issue of...
A school-based training program is offering young Aboriginal students the opportunity to work part-time in banks while completing their secondary education. Founded by Dick Estens, a cotton farmer from Moree in north-eastern NSW, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy was designed to increase Aboriginal employment within the corporate...
Byline: Mark Forbes and Andrew Clennell and Craig Skehan May 31, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia has apologised to Indonesia over a diplomatic row arising from the Balibo inquest. Two apologies were delivered to Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso...
Byline: Peter Hemphill and Sandra Godwin and Fiona Myers May 23, 2007 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- With the exception of significant areas of Gippsland, Victorian farmers received good rainfall recently. Many farmers view the rain as their A"season breakA"....
Byline: James Woodford May 20, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- It is alleged a Moree farmer cleared between 500 and 750 hectares of a nationally significant waterbird breeding habitat. Floodplain wetland comprising coolabah, lignum and River Cooba wattle...
Byline: Geesche Jacobsen May 02, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New South Wales NSW has named a 61-year-old grandmother and sheep farmer as its next State Coroner. Magistrate Mary Jerram was a former solicitor with the NSW Legal...
Water has quickly become Australians' most precious resource and no one is more acutely aware than nurses in rural and remote areas enduring harrowing times. NSW practice nurse Cathy Portullo from Mudgee, northwest of Sydney who has lived on the...
Major Trade and Professional Publication, Online and Related Business Information Acquisitions, First Quarter 2007 by buyer Publication/Property Buyer Seller Fawcette Technical ...
Byline: Fiona Myers Apr 11, 2007 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A leaked discussion paper by the Grains Council of Australia GCA has upset some farmers' bodies. The paper expressed support for deregulation of the wheat export market. The New...
Byline: Daniel Lewis Mar 27, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A grass that can be watered with sea water is about to become available in Sydney. Windsor turf farmer and New South Wales NSW "Young Farmer of the...
Byline: Seth Tenkate Mar 05, 2007 (INTHEBLACK - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The prolonged drought in Australia is hurting farmers in dry areas. One of the worst-hit areas has been outback New South Wales NSW and its farming towns and cities. Farmers had...
Staff Thierry Marx is the prize The chance to to work with French Chef of the Year Thierry Marx is the amazing opportunity being offered to the winner of a new apprentice chef award. Restaurant & Catering Victoria,...
Byline: Kim Woods Feb 28, 2007 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A New South Wales Government initiative is helping farmers to ensure that their properties are fish-friendly. The Fish Friendly Farms program uses field days, workshops, and publications to educate...
Byline: Wendy Frew Feb 28, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There is fierce debate about a new greenhouse gas mitigation scheme in New South Wales NSW. Landcare will launch the CarbonSMART scheme on 1 March 2007. It is...
Byline: Steven Scott Jan 18, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The New South Wales NSW Government has offered irrigators affected by the drought diminished financial compensation. The $A20m assistance package, outlined on 18 January 2007, is one-third...
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