Australia’s peak farming body has welcomed the passage of the Nature Repair Bill through the Senate but said it needed protections for prime agricultural land.
Future-proofing Australian food and agriculture is a task that cannot be guaranteed by any specific degree of government intervention, because the best solutions will be system-wide, Jessica Ramsden writes.
The Albanese government and Australian Greens have struck a deal over amendments to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan legislation, in what has been labelled 'the worst possible outcome' for farmers and the Plan itself.
Farmers, small business owners, community members and local government representatives in Griffith, Deniliquin and Leeton made their message clear: No more water buybacks from farmers – there is a better way.
Research on the Goulburn River in Victoria’s part of the Murray-Darling Basin shows recovery of additional water for the environment does not guarantee environmental outcomes.
Polling shows 66% of Australians support the reintroduction of voluntary water buybacks, but most of the 118 submissions to the Senate inquiry into the government’s rewrite of the 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan oppose the legislation. Who will the government listen to?
In a 'post-truth world', where anti-farming policies prevail and politicians are 'looking for easy answers', serious concerns are being raised about food and fibre security.
Last week, Australian agriculture told Trade Minister Don Farrell to keep the signing pen in his pocket if the EU put a dud deal on the table, and he's done just that.
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