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The rural network, Victoria
If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

Consumers assume Australia has milk production covered – but the national dairy herd is declining and imports are at record highs

Published: 22 Apr 2024

Published: 22 Apr 2024
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How ‘childcare deserts’ are holding Australia back – Full Story podcast

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Published: 21 Apr 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Regional Australia needs health workers and teachers – but it has to have childcare first

Published: 8 Apr 2024

Published: 8 Apr 2024

The rural network, Victoria
The chicken came first: how Australia’s most popular protein can explain the supermarket duopoly

Australian farmers are used to anti-competitive behaviour from supermarkets but the problems start even further up the supply chain

Published: 26 Feb 2024

Published: 26 Feb 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Rural Australia believes in self-sufficiency, so let’s set the terms of the renewable energy boom

The consultation and planning around the energy rollout has been lacking – so let’s knock the edges off and get investment that works for our communities

Published: 12 Feb 2024

Published: 12 Feb 2024

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No plan for nuclear waste despite Aukus submarine deal, Senate hears – as it happened

Australia is planning to obtain nuclear-powered submarines, but has nowhere to dispose of radioactive waste

Published: 26 Oct 2023
The rural network
Murray Watt hits back at National Farmers Federation campaign that calls Labor ‘ignorant to plight of farmers’

Agriculture minister pushed back after the NFF launched a national campaign arguing that ‘food and fibre production is not a central priority’ of the Albanese government

Published: 26 Oct 2023
The rural network
The ‘latte line’ dividing metropolitan and regional Australia has disappeared, but have the lobby groups kept pace?

The bush is changing, says National Farmers Federation outgoing president Fiona Simson, but the battle lines remain the same

Published: 24 Oct 2023

Published: 24 Oct 2023
The rural network
The resounding no vote shows the great Australian silence lives on in the bush

There was a deafening silence about the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum in my regional NSW electorate, where 75% voted no

Published: 17 Oct 2023

Published: 17 Oct 2023

The rural network
Australian farmers are coming off three bumper years. Are they prepared for the sudden dry?

Beef and sheep prices have plummeted as farmers try to reduce livestock herds built up during La Niña years ahead of a dry, unproductive El Niño season

Published: 29 Sep 2023
The rural network
Drought funding should focus on programs with ‘lasting public benefit’, review finds

The $5bn Future Drought Fund has underspent its $100m annual budget every year since it was established in 2019

Published: 26 Sep 2023
The rural network
Regional Australia believes in a fair go, so what does that mean for the voice?

Traditional owners have stood alongside farmers to fight against mining developments on farmland – but so far that solidarity has not been returned

Published: 19 Sep 2023

Published: 19 Sep 2023
The rural network
Australian agricultural exports grow to $80bn thanks to high rainfall

China the largest growth market for agricultural exports for the second year in a row in 2022-2023, led by a 66% increase in wheat exports

Published: 11 Sep 2023

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  Soft power in the bush: are independents the new rural influencers?
  
  Published: 5 Sep 2023
  
  Published: 5 Sep 2023
- The rural network
  Climate crisis could contribute to a global food shortage by 2050, US special envoy on food security warns
  
  Published: 4 Sep 2023

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