July 2020

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” So goes the historic quote when referring to MPs who have overstayed their usefulness, most famously directed at the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, on May 7, 1940 following his disastrous leadership during the first year of the Second World War. Maybe it’s time for some

There must be an election approaching as the state government is scrambling to cover off on any areas of potential criticism with the latest one being regional transport. After three years of ignoring the state of our wheatbelt roads or the status of Tier 3 rail the Minister for Transport has thrown a bone to farmers by raising the bait of reopening the 509km of lines closed since 2014. The Ministers announcement that she has

There is no lack of economic modelling that maps out the potential for digital agriculture to increase the gross value of Australian farm production, with some trails showing potential productivity improvements as high as 25%. With these sorts of numbers, it’s no surprise the early adopters are keen to access the latest technology, but many farmers are being held back because of the lack of mobile digital coverage, reliability and speed. Australia needs more than

With the global focus on Covid-19 one thing that has surprised international health experts is the link that media opinion makers continue to make between healthy eating and organic food as a means of warding off this and other diseases. Some consumers, particularly high net wealth ones and those with a propensity to vote Green, (all too often the same people) seem to have a fixation on the magical health benefits of organic food. In