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Farmers say feds must lift NSW flood effort as state prepares for more flooding
The NSW Farmers Association say the current funding support for farmers is nowhere near what was offered earlier in the flooding in the...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 17, 20222 min read


NSW politicians farewell Macquarie St 126 days before election
After a week of valedictory speeches including from a record-holder, the NSW parliament will rise with only upper house MPs potentially...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 16, 20222 min read


NSW agriculture peaks but faces tough 22/23 season
The latest data for the 21/22 farming year shows NSW agricultural production hit record levels but rain and flooding impacts indicate...
Staff Writers
Nov 16, 20222 min read


NSW government comes under fire for dam inaction
The Perrottet-Toole Coalition government has come under friendly fire for failures to improve dam infrastructure in the state as a party...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 15, 20222 min read


NSW native forestry bill mauled by political drop bears
The looming March election has claimed a casualty for the NSW Coalition government in the form of expanded private forestry rights, as...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 14, 20222 min read


NSW irrigators welcome low water prosecution levels, compliance relief for flooded farms
The latest Natural Resources Access Regulator data shows few prosecutions after a host of water theft investigations whilst the NSW...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 10, 20222 min read


$400,000 to model 'plausible' climate NSW flooding models
A joint federal-state initiative to create spatially explicit flood projections for regional New South Wales communities will only cover...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 8, 20221 min read


CSU to provide crash course in teen data leakage
A new course in Riverina schools will be supported by Charles Sturt University academics warning on teens leaking sensitive information,...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 8, 20221 min read


Firearms in the firing line with knives, other weapons for upgraded penalties
The New South Wales government has commissioned an independent review of the state's weapon laws, with the clear implication penalties...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 6, 20221 min read


Platypus passages and off-river storages best for iconic species' future
New research claims the best way to protect threatened platypus populations in Australia would be to stop damming within rivers but...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 3, 20222 min read


The new face of southern ag is quandongs and native peppers: researchers
Native bushfoods such as quandongs grown in the Murray-Darling Basin and native pepers in southern New South Wales could reverse...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 3, 20221 min read


Labor 'Dracula' waiting outside farm water blood bank in MD Basin
Hot on the heels of Halloween, a NSW Nationals MP has painted a horror image of imminent water buybacks from farmers in the name of the...
Rikki Lambert
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Farmers urged to be safe as machinery gets bogged
A peak farming body has urged its members to beware the dangers of bogged machinery after three fatalities so far this year. The NSW...
Rikki Lambert
Oct 30, 20222 min read


Free job training for NSW school leavers
As businesses across NSW cry out for workers, school leavers are being offered free training to help them skill up for summer holiday...
Staff Writers
Oct 30, 20221 min read


NSW Riverina pledge for $1 billion regional NSW 'turbocharge'
Deputy Premier Paul Toole was in Wagga Wagga on Thursday to announce a new regional activation funding pool to capitalise on private...
Rikki Lambert
Oct 27, 20221 min read


Farmer concerns over Albanese's poles-and-wires may be allayed
The deputy opposition leader has hit out at the $6 billion pledge by the Albanese government in Tuesday's budget to support an...
Rikki Lambert
Oct 24, 20222 min read


NSW farmers under stress with logistical, labour challenges in wet harvest
A local MP in flood-affected New South Wales communities says we now may need to flood-proof electorates like hers not long after farmers...
Rikki Lambert
Oct 24, 20221 min read


Raise the dam wall already - McCormack on Wyangala dam
The federal MP for flood affected Riverina communities says the time for talk is over on the long-running debate on raising the wall of...
Rikki Lambert
Oct 18, 20222 min read


NSW Social housing - too hot to handle, too cold too much
A new study of temperatures in New South Wales' social housing has revealed they reach levels adverse to global human health standards. A...
Rikki Lambert
Sep 14, 20221 min read


NSW approves energy interconnector with South Australia
Lower prices are just the beginning, the New South Wales government claims as it officially approves the 900 kilometre energy...
Rikki Lambert
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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