Barnaby Joyce says this 1930s plan will reduce the effects of drought. Is he right?
Irrigators have been getting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to return water to the Murray-Darling when far less expensive, and more effective, ways of achieving the same goal have been ignored by governments.
The Nationals' war on foreign investment in agriculture continues with more red tape in the water sector.
A new National Food Plan -- backing the case to farm more of Australia's north -- is something Barnaby Joyce and Bob Katter have long called for. Emil Jeyaratnam speaks to them in Canberra.
The latest Murray-Darling report shows why politicians can't be trusted with serious policy-making.
Irrigated agriculture systems, like electric grids and city road transport networks, are human engineering constructs, not gifts of nature. Therefore irrigation systems trigger by their existence a government’s duty of care to the human communities that they sustain, says Tony Kevin.
