Agriculture
Let 'er rip Ted Baillieu could spell R.I.P.

Baillieu’s ‘let er rip’ approach to the environment could spell R.I.P. for his beleaguered ...  
Sneaky Santos caught out in CSG con

Energy giant Santos’ quest to win the hearts and minds of NSW farming communities about coal ...  
Simmonds Lumber goes

Ethical Australian timber company Simmonds Lumber is using scientific innovation to helping stamp ...  
The neo-colonial G8 corporate takeover of African agricuture

What is being portrayed as charity is nothing more than a cynical neo-colonial raid by the G8 to ...  
Germany a coffee giant without growing a single bean

Germany is one of the leading coffee exporting countries in the world, without having a single ...  
Our right to safe water

Current safeguards around CSG extraction are inadequate, says Jennifer Elliott — and contami ...  
Ritual animal slaughter goes mainstream

Legal loopholes mean you could be, and probably are, inadvertently buying meat coming from animals ...  
Live export animals suffering and dying

In a shocking demonstration of non-compliance with regulations, 478 cattle and sheep suffered and ...  
Uniting for Gippsland not Gasland

A new alliance of ten community groups looks to challenge the Victorian Baillieu Government&rsq ...  
Turning CSG confrontation into consultation

  Dr Ted Christie explains how it is possible to channel the public protest and angry ...  
Ban Chinese food and medicine imports

"The Chinese Government and authorities are unable to monitor, supervise or administer and regu ...  
Farmers have the right to choose wind

[caption id="attachment_13315" align="alignright" caption="by Kane Thornton"][/caption] Anti-wind ...  
Combating child slavery in coffee and chocolate trade

Much of the labour used to produce the world’s chocolate and coffee comes from child slaves ...  
Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India

According to an article published this month in the journal 'Nature Biotechnology', Monsanto is ...  
Queensland Government wants CSG come hell or high water

The Queensland Government seeks to massively expand CSG development in Queensland despite real ...  
Senate Report recommends tighter controls on Coal Seam Gas

Senator Bill Heffernan, the Chairman of the Senate Standing References Committee on Rural Affairs ...  
The misery of foreign farming in Africa

Farming cash crops such as coffee and sugar for Western importers has brought misery upon Africa ...  
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