Agriculture
Angus Taylor, Barnaby Joyce and an $80 million water leak

Former Water Minister Barnaby Joyce spent $80 million buying back floodwater from a Cayman Islands ...  
Murray-Darling collapse: Carelessness and corruption beyond caring

The collapse of the Darling River system and, with it, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Plan ...  
EDITORIAL: Something stinks in the Coalition and it's not just dead fish

The sight of close to a million dead fish in one of Australia’s most important waterways may ...  
Needles, pins and decimated strawberry fields

A food-crisis media frenzy, combined with poor industry mitigation, may wipe out farms in the wake ...  
Modern slavery and food: The unpalatable truth

Modern slavery and atrocities abound in food production but there are ethical alternatives. Bruce ...  
Littleproud's MATES rates for Vietnam's Vissan abattoir

David Littleproud's Aus4skills Vietnam program rubs salt in the wounds of TAFE budget cuts — but ...  
Turnbull Government at sea over live sheep exports

The Coalition faces a stern test as global outrage escalates over the horror and cruelty of ...  
Changes in the bush: Breaking the drought on Barnaby-style bluster

As floods take hold in the outback, Lee Duffield presents two vastly different approaches as to ...  
Is the Santos CSG waste water experiment safe?

A Santos CSG waste water experiment near Narrabri has gone ahead despite limited assurances as to ...  
Barnaby Joyce receives Rinehart prize for even worse judgement than Turnbull

Joyce talks the agriculture talk and walks the mining walk as he receives the inaugural prize for ...  
Investigation
Murray-Darling Basin 'theft' revelations must trigger ICAC investigation

The explosive Four Corners investigation into the Murray-Darling river system must trigger an ICAC ...  
The Murray-Darling Basin: Water, markets and money

If the Department of Agriculture paid 2500% above the average price for water, there appears to be ...  
Shortsighted Budget 2017 ignores health impacts of climate change

The Turnbull Government has once again prioritised growing the economy over human lives.  
SPONSORED ARTICLE: Open letter to NAB and others

An open letter to the Chairman, Board and staff of the National Australia Bank, the Turnbull ...  
To bee or not to bee: The Climate Kid says save the bees to save ourselves

Six-year-old Ruby the Climate Kid wants you to help her save the bees, which are in danger of ...  
New study: Just reading about reducing meat consumption actually works

New study shows just reading about the need to reduce meat consumption actually works! Dr Steve ...  
Fuelling the fire: New coal technologies like UCG spell disaster for climate

Given UCG's disastrous history including Linc Energy's irreversible environmental damage in ...  
Murray Goulburn milk saga has roots in deregulation

The University of Western Australia's Professor Tim Mazzerol investigates the current milk crisis ...  
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