Agriculture • Crikey

Labor’s supermarket code of conduct will likely inflate grocery prices

Bernard Keane — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:07:15 +0000

Improving incomes for supermarket suppliers comes with a cost for consumers. But we're already used to it in some areas.

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The great call of China: What matters is how Australia answers

Crikey Readers — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:19:32 +0000

Balancing diplomacy and the national interest takes nuance, maturity and common sense, say Crikey readers.

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Live animal export is depraved and brutal. Its end can’t come quickly enough

Bernard Keane — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:01:41 +0000

Remember the sickening footage of sheep boiling to death in their own filth in 2017? No-one has been held accountable, or ever will be.

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Murray-Darling Basin Plan at risk from shortcuts, Nationals’ scams and uncooperative states

Bernard Keane — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:20:38 +0000

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan needs the government to get back to buying water and stop wasting money on 'efficiency' shortcuts.

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Soil carbon and its magic credits another offset industry fantasy

Bernard Keane — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:26:30 +0000

'Soil carbon' is an emerging area of carbon sequestration — but it has all the faults of other forms, and more. Does the government care?

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‘We value the sacrifice of every beekeeper’: NSW bee euthanasia program halted as mite management embraced

Michael Sainsbury — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:18:48 +0000

The shift from eradication to management of a deadly parasite wreaking havoc on Australia's multibillion-dollar honey bee industry has brought beekeepers some relief, but concerns remain.

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Barnaby Joyce trashed the regulator and left Labor to clean up his pesticide mess

Bernard Keane — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:31:52 +0000

The former Nats leader was told it was a bad idea to move the pesticides regulator to his electorate, but he did it anyway.

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Countries already struggling will feel the brunt of the global food crisis

Josefine Ganko — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:38:52 +0000

And what's worse, food shortages often precede political conflicts and even violent uprisings.

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Putin’s hunger for vengeance starves millions far beyond Ukraine’s borders

Clár Ní Chonghaile — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 22:15:10 +0000

Grain exports from the 'world's breadbasket' — Russia and Ukraine — are drying up, creating a food catastrophe for the developing world.

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Amber waves of grain: how do we make up for the forthcoming wheat shortfall?

Jason Murphy — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:40:48 +0000

With the Russia-Ukraine conflict set to spark a food supply crisis, could Australia be the nation that steps up to help feed the world?

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