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Pssst – Don’t look Now But There’s An Elephant In The Room

Pssst – Don’t look Now But There’s An Elephant In The Room

You may not have caught up with the follow up to last weeks article No Free Speech In Rural Australia which has been circulated right across Australia by our readers…. Read more »

Freedom Of Speech Does Not Exist in Rural Australia.

Freedom Of Speech Does Not Exist in Rural Australia.

In last weeks Queensland Country Life we witnessed one of the most amazing acts of media manipulation and bullying I have personally ever seen. I’m referring to the editors unbridled… Read more »

Does The New Native Title Claim Over Western Queensland Affect You?.

Does The New Native Title Claim Over Western Queensland Affect You?.

The Bidjara People have lodged a Native Title claim over 116,000 square kilometres of western Queensland. See map below. Agriculture Lobby group AgForce is urging AgForce members and those that… Read more »

QLD Cattleman Greg Brown New President of Cattle Council of Australia

QLD Cattleman Greg Brown New President of Cattle Council of Australia

In what is tremendous news for the Australian Cattle Industry North Queensland Cattleman Greg Brown has been elected president of Australia’s peak beef industry body, Cattle Council of Australia. Photo… Read more »

National Farmers Federation Selling Out to Big Corporate Agriculture

National Farmers Federation Selling Out to Big Corporate Agriculture

The National Farmers Federation is trying to ‘keep hushed’ a move that will allow major corporate agriculture corporations both pre and post farm gate to gain membership of the ailing… Read more »

Government Picking A Fight With Farmers Over Great Barrier Reef

Government Picking A Fight With Farmers Over Great Barrier Reef

This is a public relations disaster for farmers. Yesterday the QLD State government announced it had run out of patience with farm industries attempts to self-regulate pollution of the Great… Read more »

Dr Christine Jones – Sequestering Carbon in Australian Soils – Video of the day

Dr Christine Jones – Sequestering Carbon in Australian Soils – Video of the day

This is part 1 in a 5 part information and education series on biosequestration of carbon in Soil. The presenter is Dr Christine Jones who is an internationally renowned and… Read more »

Media Watch Should Leave The Queensland Country Life Alone

Media Watch Should Leave The Queensland Country Life Alone

It was disappointing to see ABC TV Media Watch program tear into Rural Press’s QLD Country Life last night over appalling examples of “churnalism”. Of course the QCL deserves it,… Read more »

Courier Mail – Land Clearing to turn QLD into a desert

Courier Mail – Land Clearing to turn QLD into a desert

In today’s Courier Mail – The headlines scream in their Talking Point (P32 / 10/09/2008): With Increasing global temperatures, the continued practice of land clearing may well turn our state… Read more »

Courier Mails Outrageous attack on Farmers & Rural QLD.

Courier Mails Outrageous attack on Farmers & Rural QLD.

Agmates broke the news last Friday that the radical Green conservation group World Wildlife Fund is mounting a media campaign to pressure the QLD government to stop farmers treating woody… Read more »