It is one thing for politicians to promise on the international stage a net zero world in the distant future when none will be around to be accountable. It is quite another thing to be able to deliver on that promise. Such is the case with the recent G7 summit as member nations — Canada,…
Regional Victorian communities hard hit by COVID, drought and bushfires yet playing a key part in Australia’s economic recovery are being backed, and thanked, in the federal Budget, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said. A wide range of funding programs and measures were announced in the Budget focused on jobs, skills and training; backing business and…
(*Watch Senator McKenzie question AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) BY Matt Coughlan Australian wool’s market research arm identified North Korea as a potential export option despite harsh trade sanctions against the oppressive dictatorship. Australian Wool Innovation, which is funded half through farmers’ levies and half by taxpayers, has come under fire for naming the rogue…
(Watch the senate estimates exchange between Senator McKenzie and AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) By Chris McLennan Australia’s wool industry was given a slap on the wrist in Federal Parliament yesterday for inadvertently planning to breach trade sanctions against North Korea. Australian Wool Innovation chief executive officer Stuart McCullough came under tough questioning in a…
(*Watch estimates exchange between Senator McKenzie and AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan Australia’s major wool research and marketing body has been forced to back down after identifying North Korea as an emerging market for Australian producers in a strategic document. The taxpayer and farmer-funded Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) listed the rogue…
My piece on Country Party giant Sir John “Black Jack” McEwen in The Australian On this day 53 years ago, prime minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Portsea and didn’t return, resulting in the Country Party’s John McEwen becoming our accidental prime minister. But McEwen, whose statue in Canberra’s parliamentary zone was unveiled…