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October 2025

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Forecasting by Feel: BoM and the Break

I failed Year 10 Physics and gave up on becoming a rocket scientist. I staggered through Year 12 Chemistry mostly because I wanted to make homemade fireworks—only to discover chemistry was more about formulas than fire. So I’m hardly qualified to lecture on atmospheric thermodynamics. Which is why, when a PhD once told me weather was just gases spinning around the globe, I stopped watching the local forecast and switched to admiring the weather girl

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Trevor Whittington October 31, 2025
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Less Box Ticking More Farming

Corporate Australia is finally stirring from its decade-long nap in the soft pillows of virtue signalling. A boardroom revolt by the ASX leadership against ever increasing demands by their own inclusivity diversity reporting committee signalled a return to sanity — a recognition that profit, not progressive politics, is what keeps the wheels of commerce turning. Shareholders, not activists, are now back in charge, and the era of corporate moral theatre is being shown the door.

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Trevor Whittington October 29, 2025
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“It is Bull….. It is total Bull….” Senator Canavan and Senator O’Sullivan call out the Tasmania test and the live sheep mess

Senator Matt Canavan has never been one for consensus or caution. He is the hard-dry economist in a Parliament of weather vanes—blunt, unshakably conservative, and armed with a calculator where others bring slogans. Born in Southport, Queensland in 1980, Canavan studied economics at the University of Queensland, graduating with first-class honours before joining the Productivity Commission. There, he learned how to dismantle bad ideas with data, discovering that bureaucrats can be just as reckless with

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Trevor Whittington October 17, 2025
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Firearms Act report ‘states the bleeding obvious’

Firearms Act report ‘states the bleeding obvious’ The peak body for Western Australian farmers has criticized a Parliamentary Committee report into the Firearms Act 2024 for not addressing the big issues. WAFarmers President Steve McGuire said the report’s findings confirm many of concerns the organization has with the legislation but fails to recommend significant improvements. “We know the Act was rushed through Parliament prior to the last election mostly for political reasons,” Mr. McGuire said. “There

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Darren Brown October 16, 2025
Opinion Articles

The Penny drops – Regenerative Agriculture Needs a Remake

Every now and then some brave soul puts pen to paper and comments on my published articles that are run in the Farm Weekly. Recently a Penny Mossop from York decided I had missed the mark when commenting on the regen movement. She wrote: It was pleasing that WAFarmers CEO Trevor Whittington attended the recent Regen WA and Regenerative Food Systems Conferences (Farm Weekly Sept 25) but his reports were disappointing and suggest he may

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Trevor Whittington October 15, 2025
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