May 2019

Normally when you hear a politician saying that they have a plan most of us tune out, ‘why don’t they just do something,’ is what we are really thinking. Well it looks as if the Coalition government has in fact delivered on their past plans for agriculture over the last six years, which is reflected in the overwhelming support given to the Morrison government at the recent election. WAFarmers commented during the election campaign on

Its likely to becoming too expensive for activists to follow through with their break, enter and steal liberation plans for livestock if the state and federal governments follow through with their plans to curtail the actions of those who think four legs good two legs are bad. During the election campaign Commonwealth Attorney General Christian Porter announced that if returned the coalition would list activists’ groups such as Aussie Farms Incorporated under the Privacy Act

Western Australian agriculture has just dodged a six gun full of bullets that had been loaded and aimed at farmers by Bill Shorten and his Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon. If labor had won on Saturday night they would have pulled the trigger and done some serious damage. To see just what sort of holes they would have shot into farm businesses lets go back through their six main agriculture election policies and recount

The recent sighting of camels near Esperance provides an opportune time to remind the State and Federal Governments of their responsibilities to manage Crown Land and protect the State’s primary production zones. This has been a growing problem for decades, today there is over one million feral camels stomping around not just the outback, but through fences into our Wheatbelt in Western Australia. This population has been growing by 8 per cent each year. More

WAFarmers remains hopeful that arrangements can be negotiated, and sheep and cattle will continue to be shipped from Fremantle port before the end of the year. A viable option, could see Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading (KLTT) the owners of the ships which have been responsible for moving 80% of WA livestock moving to a position to obtain their own export licence. Failing these potential arrangements, we hope KLTT will charter their vessels to a

WAFarmers remains hopeful that arrangements can be negotiated, and sheep and cattle will continue to be shipped from Fremantle port before the end of the year. A viable option, could see Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading (KLTT) the owners of the ships which have been responsible for moving 80% of WA livestock moving to a position to obtain their own export licence. Failing these potential arrangements, we hope KLTT will charter their vessels to a

Politics for most of us is a painful process of watching divided parties spend more time hunting each other like children on the island in the book The Lord of the Flies than building the coalition of the willing to defend the homeland. Australian political history is littered with examples of political parties that have flogged it out on the same side of the fence, often competing over the political scraps of a few seats

At the farm level, the economics of farming practices clearly do play an important role in shaping what farmers choose to do. Many factors influence farmers’ decisions about the adoption of new landcare practices, but where major changes are required, commercial reality is likely to be the decisive influence. Even with intervention, salinity will still cost farmers. Strategies and action plans that have been developed in the past have failed, and the government is yet

Normally when you hear a politician saying that they have a plan most of us tune out, ‘why don’t they just do something,’ is the common retort. Well it looks as if the Coalition government has in fact delivered on their past plans for agriculture over the last six years, which is reflected in the overwhelming support given to the Morrison government at the election. WAFarmers has commented during the election campaign on the plans

I HAVE always been amazed at how governments and oppositions in the three years that they have between elections to work up good policy manage to come up with such political rubbish that even a donkey would not vote for. With that amount of time one would think that the different political parties have to consult their cadre of staffers, their access to think tanks, their own members of parliament and lay party policy committees,