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NSW communities respond to proposed MDB plan
02 Feb 12 | MINISTER for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson today set off to meet stakeholders in the heart of the State’s Murray-Darling Basin to give them the opportunity to discuss the impacts of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan.   | CommentsComments (1)
Food zones in danger
31 Jan 12 | A KEY election pledge by the state government to fence prime farmland off from mining interests is in danger of collapse, with the minerals and gas industries refusing to concede that any part of the state is off limits.
NSW Liberal dilemma over party president's election
30 Jan 12 | THE NSW Liberals are wrestling with whether to delay internal elections until next year to allow the party president, Arthur Sinodinos, to stay in the role until the federal election.
Bring on the big time
29 Jan 12 | BIG country music careers have to start somewhere. For brothers Riley and Coen Dark and their best mates Cory and Tyron Buhagiar, it could be that an old biscuit tin, a tea pot mum no longer uses and a bit of used whipper snipper cord marks the first steps towards stardom.
Backlash halts bid to increase effluent in Hawkesbury
27 Jan 12 | SYDNEY WATER has abandoned a proposal to release up to 10 times more nitrogen and phosphorus into the Hawkesbury River from its Brooklyn sewage plant following a backlash from locals and fears about degradation of the waterway.  | CommentsComments (1)
Continued funding for ag critical: NFF
27 Jan 12 | THE NFF has released its 2012 Federal Budget Submission, calling on the Government to secure funding for key agricultural programs for the coming year.   | CommentsComments (2)
25 Jan 12 | FEDERAL Liberal MP for Gilmore Joanna Gash will quit parliament after 16 years and stand for Mayor of Shoalhaven City Council.
Fuel ban a legal risk, O'Farrell was told
24 Jan 12 | THE Premier, Barry O'Farrell, reinstated a decision to ban regular unleaded petrol against advice from the Crown Solicitor that the policy was unconstitutional and could be struck down in court.  | Petrol switch to leave 750,000 ...
Petrol switch to leave 750,000 motorists out of pocket
23 Jan 12 | UP TO 750,000 drivers in NSW will be forced to pay at least $150 more for petrol each year when the government bans regular unleaded petrol in July.  | CommentsComments (3)
Dinner for disgraced MP raises Labor hackles
23 Jan 12 | THE National Party has been accused of profiting from the misdeeds of MP Steve Cansdell.  | CommentsComments (2)
Bin there, sung that - garbo tries his luck at Tamworth
21 Jan 12 | FOR three decades Terry Lockley has had musical ambitions. Next week, he will get his chance to show what he can do.
20 Jan 12 | A SPLIT has emerged in the NSW Greens over support for the O'Farrell government's donations policy, which restricts political donations to individuals and bans union affiliation fees from being collected by parties.
Balmoral welcomes actors once more unto the beach
15 Jan 12 | WHEN the final words of A Midsummer Night's Dream were uttered at Balmoral Beach on March 6 last year, Shakespeare's 25-year Sydney seaside residency was deemed over.
Govt investigates CSG saline water leak
13 Jan 12 | THE NSW Department of Trade & Investment has been made aware of the discharge of 10,000 litres of saline water, in June 2011, at the Narrabri Coal Seam Gas Project, in the middle of last year, which was operated at the time by Eastern Star Gas.
2012 all about recognition for farmers
09 Jan 12 | MINISTER for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, and Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Sid Sidebottom, have welcomed 2012 - the Australian Year of the Farmer - as an opportunity for all Australians to celebrate the significant contribution our farmers make to the country.
McGauran takes up Racing NSW post
07 Jan 12 | Former federal agriculture minister Peter McGauran has been appointed Director of Strategy, Marketing and Public Affairs at Racing NSW.
NSW and Victoria to join on reforms
15 Dec 11 | THE state government has formed an alliance with Coalition colleagues in New South Wales in a bid to avoid the ''limitations'' of the federal reform process, promising to work together to deliver co-ordinated tax reform, slash environmental regulation and cut business red tape.
Let voters dump bad government, experts decide
14 Dec 11 | VOTERS should be given the power to force early elections in NSW with a view to dumping unpopular governments, a majority of experts has advised the Premier, Barry O'Farrell.

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