Rural and remote services
On average, Australians living in rural and remote areas have shorter lives, higher levels of disease and injury and poorer access to and use of health services, compared with people …
Agriculture
The issues Australian farmers are dedicated to a sustainable and secure food supply for the nation but they face significant variability due to global warming, volatility of commodity price indices and …
Show us your COP26 submission
The Glasgow Summit Conference of the Parties kicks off on 1 November and the UN warns it is the world’s last chance to get runaway climate change under control. It calls …
Agriculture: Competition
The consolidation of grocery and fresh produce retail over the past four decades has led to a radical shift in the bargaining power of individual agricultural producers. Now farm gate …
Regen farming – a heartening story
The ABC’s Australian Story, 28 Sept 2020, produced a very compelling program about Charlie Massy – a fifth generation sheep farmer who turned his back on over-grazing and chemicals to …