April 21, 2019

‘State Budget Securing Future for WA Agriculture Effort’ was the title of Minister McTiernan’s pre-budget press drop last week which I read with interest. I’m still not sure what the heading actually means but the money attached to it got my attention. The tap was back on, I thought, with $131.5m of new money earmarked for ag over the next four years. Reading on, after it detailed the failures of the past government, the press

Carbon emissions and targets are back in the news with the election promise by the opposition to ignore the cost to the Australian economy of its policy of a 45% reduction in emissions by 2030 vs the much more manageable 26% target set by the liberals. Labor’s herculean attempt to reduce Australia’s carbon footprint by a total of 226 million tonnes over the next 11 years is 4 times more than what has been achieved