Dr Rachel Richardson speaks with the kind of gravitas you’d expect from a lifetime working in education, yet maintains an eloquent outrage about the shortfall in services for trans, gender-diverse, non-binary people in rural Australia.
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Guardian Australia Rural+Regional Editor. Rusted Off (Penguin 2018). Why You Should Give A F*ck About Farming (Aug 31, 2021).
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what's the longest time series of house prices available? seems weird all these stories about house price decline which miss the context of the huge rises in the 2000s?
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In Wagga alone – where more than 60% of people identify broadly as a Christian and more than 45% voted “no” in the marriage equality survey – it’s becoming common to see pride stickers on business doors. w incredible pics by
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Smaller horticulture growers are struggling to compete for workers in the NSW Riverina region, claiming that labour contractors are favouring larger growers where they can earn greater profits.
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A senior Nationals source said female candidates had felt aggrieved by the move, particularly after the party’s leader, David Littleproud, had indicated he had wanted to see more women put their hands up for leadership positions.
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Any rural debt wonks out there? Would love to drill into longer term implications in inflationary environment. DM or australia.rural@theguardian.com
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Queensland’s rural debt for 2019-21 rises by 25% with a jump in B+ debt in grain and grazing where borrowers “experienced debt servicing difficulties under present circumstances but is potentially viable long term”. @khaledkhawa theguardian.com/australia-news
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Queensland’s rural debt for 2019-21 rises by 25% with a jump in B+ debt in grain and grazing where borrowers “experienced debt servicing difficulties under present circumstances but is potentially viable long term”.
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Helen Haines has written to the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, asking for guarantees of independence, including an oversight committee with enough independent and crossbench representation that it “can’t be stacked” by government MPs.
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Chris Dawson has been found guilty of murdering his wife, Lynette Dawson, on or about 8 January 1982. Here are five of the reasons Justice Ian Harrison said helped him reach that verdict.
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About 15,000 patients in and around the rural city of Mildura in Victoria’s north-west have been left without a bulk-billing doctor and are struggling to access their medical records.
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It "follows the CEFC tipping $50m into a regenerative farming platform launched in October that under the management of ag funds specialist Gunn Agri will look to turn around underperforming farms and reduce their carbon footprints."
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Macquarie-owned Paraway Pastoral has secured a $75m capital injection from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to reduce methane gas emissions across its 4.5m ha portfolio of livestock stations and cropping properties.
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"This is the story of a life-saving vaccine with an unfortunate loophole that produced that version of the virus, and a calculated anti-vaccine campaign that created a vulnerable population." By Dana Smith
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Pistachios can withstand drought – an important factor in La Mancha – but need plentiful water during the nut-forming stage. In California, severe drought and restrictions on exploiting groundwater already threaten this year’s crop.
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“Millennials are essentially skipping the middle suburbs and moving to suburbia or Geelong, or really anywhere within a 2hour drive around Melb.” Kuestenmacher expects to see an increase in votes for progressive parties outside Melb.
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The Perrottet government will face a wave of community-based independent candidates at the next state election running on platforms of integrity in NSW politics, sustainability and local development issues.
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“His defamation action against Crikey, a relatively modest but worthwhile online subscription news and commentary service, reveals much – about ego, the drift of American politics and media, and defamation law itself.” By Richard Ackland.
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A drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ensure crops survive the hottest summer on record.
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India’s cabinet has approved restrictions on wheat flour exports to calm prices in the local market.
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Now u know what my feed looks like Max.
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Ok algorithm, I may have just bought @gabriellechan's book on farming, but am still not the target market for this
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“It didn’t help the farmers, but in 2018 the ACCC noted that even higher prices would not really help farmers because of the massive power imbalance they have with milk processors.” On milk and competition or lack thereof
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“it’s about integrity, really. We need to look after these people, because they’re special people for our industry. We know what it’s like not to have them around.” Grain grower Chris Kelly on NFF non-monetary benefits recommendations.
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“The people who produce and buy food are the ones who suffer from a system that puts shareholder profits over people. Half of the world’s undernourished are smallholder farmers and their families.”
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The world’s top 4 grain traders have seen record or near-record profits or sales. They are forecasting demand to outstrip supply at least until 2024, which is likely to lead to even higher sales and profits in the next two years.
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Tasmanian and federal bureaucrats pushed for a recovery plan for a critically endangered parrot species to be changed to remove and downplay scientific evidence that logging was the biggest threat to its survival.
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I love Dolly. #MadAsHell
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The Albanese government has launched its first offshore petroleum exploration permits, opening up nearly 47,000 sq km of Australian waters to oil and gas exploration.
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Crikey used a legal threat from Lachlan Murdoch to drive subscriptions, a statement of claim from the co-chairman of News Corporation alleges.
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So great to be part of a festival with RADICAL HOPE as the tagline. Love this festival, the place, the people, the conversations. This weekend.
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The “three high” problem: high prices, high debt and high financialisation. "The approach has been nothing short of dramatic. Financing for property developers has tanked. Earlier this year, property sales declined by as much as 20-30%"
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Farmer says why. I say wow! Can we have an Australian version? Who is in?
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The Sheep human Contest in France. This is the festival I need right now.
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Farm workers could be part-paid with fruit, vegetables and other produce as the agriculture sector seeks to lower the bar for the “better off overall test” for pay.
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The state recorded three additional cases of monkeypox on Sunday, bringing the total caseload to 42. They included one case that acquired their infection in NSW and two cases that picked up the virus “within Australia”.
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Singapore will repeal a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, a landmark decision described by LGBTQ+ groups as “a win for humanity”. By
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"There is nothing confusing about it, David, listen to me. Keith Pitt was the minister, and I’m telling you, there is no trick, hockery pickery trick to this." tries to make sense of a former deputy prime minister.
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I live in Broken Hill & have never seen so many Caravans before.
The town has been packed fora few weeks now.
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‘I do not believe anyone can truthfully say they “know” Morrison. I can say I have “experienced” Scott for 22 years.’ By
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“People don’t think of the older demographic as an emerging market, people are always thinking about teenagers,” Ash Grunwald says.
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Question for writers… next weekend I’m doing an event where I’ll be selling copies of my book myself (no bookshop).
For those who’ve done this before: how do you accept payment now that cash is a thing of the past? Do I need a mobile POS device, or is there a simpler solution?
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