Having dealt with WAfarmers and the PGA in one form or another over the past 25 years working in the political world, I am very familiar with the fact that political messaging from the State’s two peak farm bodies often cancels each other out. Even when both organisations are presenting common views on bad government policy, any slightly different presentation of the facts is leapt on by government as disunity in the industry and hence

In 2017, I swapped life as Chief of Staff to the Minister for Agriculture working out of an office overlooking the Swan River, to working out of a donger in Fitzroy Crossing, overseeing a struggling Aboriginal Corporation that owned three bankrupt and abandoned stations in the Kimberley. Besides the pleasant shock of working with real people what I found most shocking was how 1.3 million acres of prime pastoral country was being left virtually abandoned

What is the link between lobster, kangaroo and karri besides the fact that they are all iconic native local products that are available to consumers; they are also all managed by the state government. Historically we have over caught, cut or culled them all and only recently have we wound back our harvest rates to ensure they are sustainably managed. Such a conservation approach has the support of all Western Australians. That is up to

Western Australian farmers should take the time to read two brilliant opinion pieces by Jane Marwick The Great Lobster Grab and Paul Murray The Sods Must Be Cray-z! published online in WAToday. Both articles comment on a radical government policy to nationalise, redistribute or double rents on three of the states iconic fisheries. The first to be hit was the aquarium fishery which saw the Minister for Fisheries double the existing quota and hand out