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Gina Rinehart
‘Cut tape and tax’: Gina Rinehart reveals eccentric wishlist
Australia’s richest person has railed against taxes, bureaucrats and “bird-killing” clean energy in her checklist of measures to help regional Australia.
- by Peter Milne
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How Effie left the land of Plenty
“When Paul was taking his last breaths, Effie went and found the newspaper story you wrote about their life, and laid it over his body like a shroud.”
- by Justin McManus
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
The food weapon: Putin eyes windfall after walking away from deal
Vladimir Putin’s decision has global implications for the food industry and could deliver a much-needed boost to Russia’s dwindling coffers.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Joyce’s relocation decision sparked agency’s downward slide: review
An independent review of the agricultural chemical regulator has issued damning findings about the forced relocation of the agency from Canberra to Barnaby Joyce’s electorate in northern NSW.
- by Mike Foley
Venomous fire ants could spread nationwide as eradication funding stalls
The potentially deadly pest is poised to march across the country after governments failed to agree on a funding package to continue an eradication program.
- by Mike Foley
Ministers get cracking on plan to phase out caged eggs in Australia
The plan to rid Australian shelves of caged eggs was hatched in a meeting of the nation’s agriculture ministers in Perth on Thursday.
- by Sarah Brookes
‘Message to Macron’: Australia ready to walk after EU trade deal deadlock
Trade Minister Don Farrell cancelled his holiday to try to save the EU free trade deal but the bloc won’t budge and Australia won’t agree to its terms.
- by Mike Foley and Rachel Clun
‘No certainty’: Avocado grower Costa cautious on US firm’s $1.6b takeover bid
Australian horticulture giant Costa Group confirmed it received an unsolicited takeover proposal by Paine Schwartz, but said no deal has been struck yet.
- by Jessica Yun
Minister told that beef producers aren’t a deforestation risk
The advice from the federal Agriculture Department to minister Murray Watt contradicts Queensland government data, further complicating trade negotiations with the European Union.
- by Mike Foley
Bank finance helps clear swaths of threatened species habitat
Banks have been urged to change tack after new analysis found hundreds of thousands of hectares of threatened species habitat have been cleared with the help of their financing.
- by Mike Foley
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NSW mouse plague
The simple trick to stop another $1 billion mouse plague disaster
A photo of a wheat field studded with a neat line of holes caught Professor Peter Banks’ eye, sparking a research project that could halt mice in their tracks.
- by Angus Dalton