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Submission to the Regulatory Impact Analysis to reduce the open road default speed limit

WAFarmers is against lowering default speed limits outside built-up areas 1. The core problem is not the default limit but driver behaviour and road maintenance While road safety is a shared national priority, the assumption that lower default speed limits will materially reduce fatalities oversimplifies a complex issue. Driver error, fatigue, distraction, alcohol, and inattention are leading causes of rural road crashes — not simply “speed.” Many regional and remote roads are in poor condition

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Darren Brown November 10, 2025
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Albany Zone moves to support Nationals’ Net Zero policy

Members of Western Australia’s peak farming body has passed a motion to “endorse the Federal National Party’s decision to abandon Australia’s current net-zero by 2050 commitment.” The meeting of the Albany Zone of WAFarmers yesterday formally called for the organisation’s policy to be updated to “reflect recent political, economic, and technological developments surrounding Australia’s emissions reduction commitments.” The motion also “calls on: The WA Liberal Party and the Federal Liberal Party to review and realign

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Trevor Whittington November 7, 2025
Opinion Articles

Captain Jarvis will go down in history

Long-suffering readers know my refrain: Western Australia can build stadiums, museums and Metronet tunnels, yet still cannot build a permanent home for its agriculture department. Call it DPIRD or the old Ag Department, or — as I prefer — the Department of People, Inclusion, Re-education and Diversity. Titles change, logos change, ministers change. The reality stays the same. For decades we have shuffled staff around Perth like sailors swapping hammocks on a leaking frigate, while

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Trevor Whittington November 6, 2025
Opinion Articles

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
Opinion Articles

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
Opinion Articles

“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
Opinion Articles

“Could of Went Home” to “We Gather on Country”

Inner-city elites once mocked the battlers who clipped vowels and stumbled over grammar. The blue-collar types who said things like “youse lot ain’t got none,” “me and him went down the pub,” or “them ones is better than this.” Drop an s off a verb or mangle a plural and you were marked uneducated, uncouth, destined for the wrong side of the tracks. Yet the same elites now beam with pride as they do exactly

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Trevor Whittington September 27, 2025
Opinion Articles

Australia and the Mother Country Race Each Other to the Bottom

After more than a century of Federation and countless social experiments, you’d think Australia would have learned from the mother country how not to wreck an economy or an immigration system. Yet here we are in 2025, shackled to laws and institutions that guarantee only one thing: the slow, grinding slide down the global economic ladder. Australia has slipped from 5th in the OECD for GDP per capita in the 1970s to around 16th today.

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Trevor Whittington September 11, 2025
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