A last-ditch attempt to secure a free trade agreement with the EU collapsed on Sunday,setting a potential deal back years.
Soaring temperatures lead to more deaths each year than other natural disasters,so emergency services must prepare people for the hottest conditions since Black Summer.
Emergency Services Minister Murray Watt said there were more firefighting aircraft available than at any point before,although wet weather had made hazard reduction burns difficult.
The live cattle and buffalo export trade from Australia to Indonesia can now resume after beasts from four Australian facilities were barred in August over disease fears.
Talk about nailing the youth vote!
The venomous pests are spreading from Queensland towards NSW and other states,as government documents reveal a shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to wipe them out.
An independent review of the agricultural chemical regulator has issued damning findings about the forced relocation of the agency from Canberra to Barnaby Joyce’s electorate in northern NSW.
The potentially deadly pest is poised to march across the country after governments failed to agree on a funding package to continue an eradication program.
The plan to rid Australian shelves of caged eggs was hatched in a meeting of the nation’s agriculture ministers in Perth on Thursday.
The trade minister will ditch his holiday for two days of talks as he tries to get the Europeans to budge on their offer for Australian agricultural products.
Animals Australia says thousands of sheep are set to be slaughtered outside the live export rules that are supposed to protect them after uncovering alleged abuses.