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Red meat proved to be carbon efficientVisit Queensland Country Life

Red meat proved to be carbon efficient
11:12 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIAN red meat production is much more carbon-efficient than often reported in the media, says an important study by the University of NSW.  | Rain stalls cattle marketsVisit Queensland Country Life | Low carbon ‘hoof-print’ backs ...Visit Queensland Country Life | VIDEO: Rain delivers price boost to ...

Lack of water data puts northern food bowl on hold

Lack of water data puts northern food bowl on hold
6:53 AM AEDT | SAFE drinking water should be secured for people across northern Australia before the nation tries to turn the Top End into the food bowl of Asia, a taskforce has told the Federal Government.  | CommentsComments (1) | Rudd says no to Top End food bowl | WA drought 'could be worst for ...Visit Farm Weekly | VIDEO: Rain delivers price boost to ...

Kangatarians the latest niche in green food market

Kangatarians the latest niche in green food market
6:18 AM AEDT | THERE'S a new semi-vegetarian movement emerging in Australia: people who exclude all meat except kangaroo on environmental, ecological and humanitarian grounds. They call themselves kangatarians and are slowly growing in numbers.  | CommentsComments (1) | Farmers first for Murray ...Visit Stock & Land | Rain delivers price boost to ...Visit Stock & Land | VIDEO: Sky News: More property rights ...
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MULTIMEDIA

GALLERY: More photos from the property rights rally

More photos from the property rights rally
08 Feb 10 | More than 3000 farmers marched on Canberra on February 2.
  GALLERY: Photos from Bassendean Library historical launch
  GALLERY: Photos from Barellan Sheep Sale
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STATE NEWS

Labelling may miss the mark, report says

Labelling may miss the mark, report says
1:37 PM AEDT | LABEL on or label off? Apparently if you are consumer in the United Kingdom you just don’t care if a country of origin label is on a food product or not, new research from its top national food watchdog has uncovered.  | Dip in agribusiness performance ... | Keneally will do her best, let ...

Shearers flag fleecing by compo changes

Shearers flag fleecing by compo changes
10:48 AM AEDT | Imagine paying more than $100,000 a year on worker compensation premiums for a team of shearers and later being forced to pay another $130,000 when one of them was hurt.  | Wool’s run continues | Market check pulls wool back ...
  Barellan first-cross ewes to $173Visit The Land
  Continued push to prune standing proxies
  Keneally will do her best, let voters decide the rest
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More photos from property rights rally

More photos from property rights rally

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Coalition to offer six months off to parents

Coalition to offer six months off to parents
8:45 AM AEDT | A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female voters.
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WORLD NEWS

Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uraniumExternal Link

Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
8:47 AM AEDT | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
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When soil carbon is not in the national interest

When soil carbon is not in the national interest
08 Feb 10 | IN THE sporting phrase, the Coalition plan has soil carbon peaking too early.
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  "High Priest" Monckton preaching to ...
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