Permanent water-trade will weaken agriculture and regional economies, farmers argue in a long-awaited report. A long-awaited report has revealed “widespread, vehement community opposition to permanent water-trade” out of irrigation districts. Permanent water-trade of irrigation is at the core of the federal and state National Water Initiative (NWI) and of the $10 billion federal water plan,…
Farmers are outraged that governments are buying scarce irrigation water for environmental flows, writes Patrick J. Byrne. Farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin are outraged that governments are buying irrigation water from drought-stressed farmers for environmental flows instead of investing in water savings measures. As a matter of principle, during a drought there should be no…
The big retailers are screaming over the recent Federal Government changes to the Trade Practices Act, which constitute the first serious measures to protect small businesses from unfair competition. Patrick J. Byrne reports. To put the nation’s competition laws in context, Australia has fallen behind the rest of the developed world in trade practices legislation. These inadequate…
The National Civic Council has launched two election brochures with policies promoting biofuels, industry and family-safe internet-filtering. Patrick J. Byrne reports. Green Energy Australia is positioned to reduce the cost of a carbon-trading system, reduce carbon emissions, reduce dependence on imported oil and cars, and cut its burgeoning foreign debt. This can be achieved by creating a…
