Australia produces some of the most delicious and nutritious food in the world but has to maintain its ability to feed itself and others. Prime agricultural land must be preserved for growing food and fibres.
From Weekly Times Now, David McKenzie, FOOD processors are opposing a push by Opposition Senators to strengthen country-of-origin labelling laws. Peak grocery and beverage bodies and leading processors say food companies would face constant label changes and higher costs i... ...more
Posted in: Food Production
Actions: E-mail | Permalink
From The Land, By Clancy Yeates A GROUP of irate farmers has launched a legal challenge against BHP Billiton in to bid to stop the company from developing coalfields in the state's north-west. Landowners and residents from the Liverpool Plains, near Tamworth, sought to overturn a B... ...more
From The Land Spare me the quarantine spin By Lucy Knight A FEW months ago, the Government had committed money towards reforms at the Australian Quarantine and Inspection service to streamline the export certification process and deliver greater efficiency with new online technologies and l... ...more
By Sabra Lane for AM The Federal Government has denied gagging public servants in its trade agency after a submission critical of official policy disappeared from a parliamentary website. Trade and development agency Austrade had warned that plans to charge companies for quarantine inspections cou... ...more
79 Main Street Young NSW 2594
Phone: (02) 6382 3400 Fax: (02) 6382 3499 Freecall: 1300 734 681