Tag Archives: Agriculture Minister Tony Burke
Australian Government Climate Adviser Wants Beef & Dairy Herds Gone In 2 Years
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong have repeatedly told us that they are pressing ahead with their Emissions Trading Scheme based on what the science… Read more
Has Tony Burke Mislead Parliament Saying Wheat Growers $30 a Tonne Better Off Under Deregulation?
QLD grain grower and Agmates member Rowell Walton writes: . On Friday last our Federal Minister for agriculture Tony Burke asserted to the nations parliament that wheat growers were $30… Read more
Farmday Roaring Success – Numbers up 33% – 730 Families this Year.
Meat and Livestock Australia’s Nigel Gosse writes: . More than 730 families participated in this year’s ‘FarmDay’ which is designed to provide city families with the opportunity to visit a… Read more
New ABARE Report – Kevin Rudd’s ETS Will Bankrupt Australia’s Food Producers
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, John Cobb writes: . Farmers will go broke and food prices will rise, are the main findings of ‘official’ Government modelling into the… Read more
Purchase of Twynam Water Will Create a Permanent Rudd made Drought In Rural Australia
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, John Cobb writes: . The Rudd Government’s war on Regional Australia is intensifying with the news that the Rudd Government has purchase 240… Read more
Free Trade Is A Free ‘Kick In The Guts’ For Australia’s Food Producers
Agmates editor Steve Truman writes: . The great myth of global Free Trade is unraveling faster than Trade Minister Simon Crean and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke can say Chk- Chk… Read more
Tony Burke & Kevin Rudd’s Silent Jihad Against Australian Farmers
Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes: . It has just emerged that the Rudd Labor governments silent ‘jihad’ against Australia’s food and fibre producers knows no bounds. Agriculture Minister Tony Burke… Read more
Calls For Agriculture Minister Tony Burke To Be Replaced.
NSW Farmer and Chairman of the Australian Beef Association Brad Bellinger [pictured] writes: . The Australian Beef Association (ABA) and it members are calling on the Australian Prime Minister Kevin… Read more
Lives, Food Security and the Environment at Risk with Bio-Security and Quarantine Cuts
Federal Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, John Cobb writes: . In what can only be described as a national disgrace, buried in this years budget papers is a… Read more
Kevin Rudd Compromises Australia’s Food Security
Federal Shadow Minister for Agriculture, John Cobb writes: . The Rudd Government is compromising our farmers’ ability to feed and clothe the nation after admitting it would be slashing research… Read more
