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Submission on draft Australian Standard AS 7531 – Rolling stock lighting and visibility Steve McGuire, President WAFarmers 17 February 2026 Introduction The Farmers Federation of Western Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the draft Australian Standard AS 7531 – Rolling Stock Lighting and Visibility. WAFarmers represents primary producers
WA’s peak agricultural bodies are demanding that the government make immediate changes to ensure existing and new Aboriginal Heritage sites are shown on property Titles. The call comes ahead of a Supreme Court appeal by Toodyay farmer Tony Maddox who was charged for repairing a creek crossing on his property
WA has a long and bipartisan talent for pretending it is in charge when it plainly is not. Nowhere is that more obvious than on the 5500km of the old Westrail network — an asset sold at the turn of the century and then quietly abandoned by every government since.
THE biggest risk to a family farm is not government policy, climate change, drought, interest rates or commodity prices. It is the family itself. Farm succession is often pushed into the “too hard basket” until reality makes it unavoidable – and by then, it can become emotional, rushed, and sometimes
Western Australia’s grain freight debate has become oddly unhinged. We talk endlessly about road damage, truck numbers, safety, emissions and who should pay. Rail tragics insist that reopening Tier 3 lines will solve all our problems. Road realists respond that we should simply widen and upgrade roads to allow triples. Yet the
The following article was published by The Countryman newspaper today Calls from peak farming bodies for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Committee transparency Georgia Campion WA’s peak farming bodies have called for the State Government to lift the lid on what they say is the secretive work of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
