Police have raided Greenpeace’s Sydney headquarters, seizing evidence relating to last week’s destruction of a genetically modified wheat experiment, according to the industry website Food Navigator. Authorities investigating the destruction of a genetically modified (GM) wheat trial at a farm in Canberra raided and seized property from Greenpeace’s head offices in Sydney, Australia. Greenpeace activists [...]

The sudden end to Western Australia’s solar feed in tariff yesterday for new connections has been widely criticised by the solar industry and its supporters. WA’s Energy Minister Peter Collier announced yesterday morning the state’s cap for participation in its feed in tariff initiative had been reached and was to be immediately suspended. The state had set [...]

A visit by the federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet and South Australian Premier Mike Rann to a wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in suburban Adelaide has highlighted the economic benefits from growth in renewable energy in the state. Mr Combet said the recently announced new Clean Energy Finance Corporation will [...]

Wheat output in Western Australia, which produces high-quality milling grain, is likely to double to around nine million tonnes this year following ideal crop weather, boosting prospects of wheat exports from the country in the coming marketing season. This has narrowed the spread between the nation’s west and east coast wheat to $13 a tonne, [...]

Farmers in Western Australia say it will be some time before sheep stocks rise from the current low levels. Last year’s drought saw record numbers of sheep sold to the eastern states, a move that cost WA farmers up to $3 billion in lost revenue. The Department of Agriculture estimates WA’s sheep flock is about [...]

Mukesh Haikerwal knows all too well the danger of a food allergy. It was 14 years ago that the Melbourne GP and former president of the Australian Medical Association first recognised symptoms of anaphylaxis in his then one-year-old son. ”As a father it was horrendous,” he says. ”You have this child that won’t settle and [...]

A new proposal in Australia and New Zealand could see country of origin labelling extended to unpackaged meat products.   On July 18, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) called for submissions on the proposal, published on its website, to have country of originlabelling extended to unpackaged beef, sheep and chicken meat. In Australia and New [...]

Ausveg warns Australia’s food security is at risk unless protective measures are taken. Ausveg CEO Richard Mulcahy warns that Australia doesn’t have an infinite amount of agricultural resources and action needs to happen now to protect the security of Australia’s homegrown food supply. Speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the New South Wales Farmer’s [...]

TOURING British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton today told Tony Abbott to drop his Direct Action plan to cut carbon emissions. “The Coalition should in my opinion ditch it because there is no need to take any action about carbon dioxide at all,” Lord Monckton told the National Press Club during a good-natured debate. [...]

AUSTRALIA has agreed to a trial shipment of Philippine Carabao mangoes after years of lobbying by Filipino producers, the Agriculture Department said over the weekend. “We see this as a good sign, and we’re hoping that market acceptance will be good as well,” Bureau of Plant Industry Director Lito Baron told the Manila Standard. If [...]