August 4, 2020

Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan  born 1953 qualified lawyer, professional politician, has just won her 9th preselection contest to guarantee she will serve 4 more years in state politics. Not many politicians get even close to the sort of career in politics she has had, let alone at all three levels in government. In a ruthless factional deal MacTiernan has seen her party dump another woman (Adele Farina) to allow her to swap from her

Recently WAFarmers was invited to attend a summit on farm safety where both the responsible Minister for Commerce Bill Johnson and the Minister for Agriculture Alannah MacTiernan gave the industry a simple message.  We are coming after you. Either address the high level of deaths and injuries or the government was going to go after farmers by using all its powers, including the dramatically increased new penalties and the industrial Manslaughter laws it is seeking

What the state and federal government is attempting to do by controlling the biosecurity risk around Covid-19, farmers do every day of the week, they manage pest and diseases by actively deciding between eradication, control and management.  The only difference is farmers operate to a plan, knowing when to go hard with a complete eradication program or accept the reality that the pest or disease is here to stay and it’s time to move to

WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan has confirmed the State’s farming workforce will be exempt from the new border measures enforced yesterday to combat coronavirus. Conceding there was “a long way to go in this crisis”, Ms MacTiernan said agricultural workers would not be impeded by the strict border measures implemented yesterday. “People who are required to travel to WA to work in agriculture or primary industries are exempt from the self-isolation requirement, as they perform