Australian Agriculture Minister Murray Watt failed to attend the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin earlier this month, however Aussie farmers were represented at the event by Victorian young farmer Jamie Pepper.
Cattle Australia is demanding an equitable resolution of the long-running class action over the unlawful closure of the live cattle export trade in 2011.
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.
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