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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
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
Opinion Articles

How hard is it to help the Minister when it comes to drought?

It’s starting to feel like the longest-running game of political ping-pong in WA agriculture — letter, article, letter, article — back and forth between WAFarmers and the Minister over what should be the most straightforward of shared priorities: drought. But here we are, months later, with the Minister, her department, and the farming community speaking entirely different dialects. One from Venus, the other from Mars — one fluent in political-managerial climate-catastrophe language full of “multi-hazard

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Trevor Whittington September 2, 2025
Opinion Articles

Carbon Farming or Farming Fools

Sharing the farmhouse on weekends with a 21-year-old recent Ag Science graduate — who’s firmly convinced his old man knows nothing about politics, economics, or history — is hard enough. Especially when I’ve read more books on these subjects than he’s even walked past in the UWA library. It gets worse when we stray into soil science, when there is nothing he does not know despite him never having been seen with a text book

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Trevor Whittington August 22, 2025
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The Biological War of the Worlds

While politicians and activists agonise over the merits of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, a far more insidious war rages on — not between nations, but between species. It’s the war we barely talk about, yet one we’re losing badly: the war against invasive pests. From farmland to forest, the frontlines are everywhere, and the casualties aren’t measured in headlines but in trees, crops, ecosystems — and billions of taxpayer dollars. It’s a war

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Trevor Whittington August 22, 2025
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