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Information session: Farm Business Transition Program Round 2 

Applications are now open for Round 2 of the Farm Business Transition Program. Information and Q&A sessions are being held across WA’s Wheatbelt, Great Southern, South-West, Mid-West and Peel regions throughout March. Sheep producers are encouraged to attend to discuss and ask questions in-person on: Producer eligibility and eligible activities How to apply and what’s required Differences from WA’s Supply Chain Capacity Program Application support and resources. About the program The Farm Business Transition Program supports sheep producers to increase on-farm adoption and uptake of alternative farming systems and practices. Funding supports the development

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The Countryman: State must act to get freight rail on track

The WA Labor Government has a curious habit when it comes to big decisions. When it wants something badly enough, it moves at speed. When it doesn’t, it buries the issue under consultants, reviews and “process”. Right now, freight rail sits firmly in the second category. In the lead-up to the last State election, Labor committed to “investigate and progress the potential buyback of the below-rail freight lease”. Translated into plain English, that means regaining

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Opinion Articles

How the Housing Boom Broke the Lucky Country

Like every parent watching their adult kids edge toward the real estate market, I look at the numbers with growing alarm. In 25 years, Perth house prices have jumped from roughly $200,000 to close to $900,000 — a three-to-fivefold increase — while wages have barely doubled from $50,000 to $100,000. That’s not a generational squeeze; it’s a structural impossibility. Unless the next generation marries a doctor, a diesel mechanic, a FIFO worker, wins Lotto, or

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