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Gurra Downs Date Company

"Out of every adversity lays the seed of equal or greater opportunity" ... "if you've got a passion for farming, grazing, cropping or whatever it is, just keep looking through your genetics and the way that you manage your farms and your businesses and your environments" : Dave Reilly

Taking the lid off global agri-supply chain bottlenecks

Georgie Aley, Agribusiness Australia. As 2021 rolls into Spring, it looks like another bumper crop for grains, pulses and horticulture. More broadly, we continue to see new challenges for the agribusiness sector, which serve to highlight the fact that in COVID times, you never know what is next.

Lockyer Valley Regional Council endorses Equine Precinct Business Case

A state-of-the-art Equine Precinct in the heart of the Lockyer Valley is now one step closer, after Council today moved to endorse the Business Case for the project.

Beach wheelchairs on the move

Beach access just got a whole lot easier with the relocation of two Hippocamp Beach Access Wheelchairs to Champion Beach.

Democracy ditched, and the question I would have asked”¦!

Western Victoria MP Bev McArthur has condemned the Labor Party, who yesterday worked with  crossbench minor parties to force  through a vote cancelling this week’s session of Parliament less than an hour after debate began.  

Lands Acquisition Act review

The Morrison Government has today released the Review of the  Lands Acquisition Act 1989  (the LAA) and has accepted all 16 recommendations in full.

The Battle of Magdhaba

Warwick O'Neill. “Take that damned thing away and let me see it for the first time in half an hour.” The immortal words of General Charlie Cox of the 1st Light Horse Brigade in the mid-afternoon of 23rd December 1916. He was  referring to a direct written order from the Commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, none other than Harry Chauvel, ordering the withdrawal of troops from the attack on Magdhaba, Egypt. The Corps had been attacking all day without success and Chauvel, fearing that horses and men would soon run out of water had ordered the withdrawal. ‘Fighting’ General Cox had other ideas.

Kendenup Dogpro Plus Arena Winner

West Australian Working Sheep Dogs Association, Media Release, 17 August 2021 Frank Sutherland and Pendalup Sue, 148 points, took out the Kendenup Dogpro Plus Arena...

Dowerin Field Days, 25-26 August 2021

Dowerin Field Days, Media Release, 18 August 2021

Mount Morgan Show success!

Mount Morgan Agricultural Show Society, Media Release, 18 August 2021 The 2021 Mount Morgan Show held on 14 August 2021 has been hailed as a...