We’ve all seen the images of micro homes, or as the Australian Tiny House Association calls them, tiny houses.
Trevor Whittington
Premier Roger Cook is becoming one of the more intriguing figures in Australian politics, writes WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington.
Out in the regions, farming museums are doing extraordinary work, yet they’re losing a race against time, writes WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington.
Every generation has its automotive obsession, and for farmers it often revolves around a ute, writes WAFarmers CEO Trevor Whittington.
‘Contrary to claims on social media, I am probably more comfortable with firearms than any police minister since Vietnam veteran Graham Edwards in the early 1990s’, writes Paul Papalia.
Paul Papalia
For more than a century, the Government of WA has been tasked with ensuring rural communities have access to essential services — commitment that has held the Wheatbelt together through generations.
Agriculture has always relied on middlemen — livestock agents and ag chemical suppliers — each providing a service to farmers based in their local towns, but for how long?
In the early 1980s, a group of WA farmers grew tired of the growing disparity between the tractor prices offered by their local dealer and what American farmers were paying.
Labor’s latest attempt to shut down the Keep the Sheep campaign and protests from WA farmers is long on rhetoric and short on detail, writes Liberal MLC Steve Martin.
Steve Martin
Australian producers are hailed as some of the most tech-savvy in the world, but there’s still much more to be done to break down barriers and drive broader agtech adoption.
Harriet Mellish
It’s been three months since legislation to end live sheep exports by sea came into effect, but farmers remain in the dark about the Albanese Government’s transition plans and funding package details.
Bonnie Skinner
As Mark Twain so eloquently put it: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’. WA Labor gave us all three versions during debate in the Parliament recently.
Rather than my usual letter decrying the fact the rail industry isn’t illuminating their vehicles to the degree society rightfully expects, I’ve reminded myself ‘you can learn something from everybody, right?’”
Jo Jackson King
There’s been one very notable exception from Anthony Albanese’s WA cabinet roadshow this week.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
National Biosecurity Week is a timely reminder that Labor needs to explain how it will fund, support and safeguard Australia from dangerous pests and diseases, writes Nationals leader David Littleproud.
David Littleproud
It’s only a matter of time before mandatory climate reporting applies to smaller businesses such as farms, writes C-Wise chief executive Greg Watts.
Greg Watts
The most aggrieving part of Rex Airlines’ collapse is that the Albanese Government was given plenty of warning signs more had to be done to urgently support aviation competition, writes WA Senator Dean Smith.
Dean Smith
Albo’s bad taste joke — made to some of the agricultural industry’s brightest lights — about killing off Australia’s live export industry has to be one of the worst prime ministerial clangers.
Editorial
Once again, the WA sheep industry appears to be in a state of decline, writes Wannamal lamb producer Murray Ellis.
Murray Ellis
As another National Rail Safety Week rolls around, Lara Jensen questions when State governments will address the ‘glaringly obvious’ issue of inadequate train and rolling stock visibility lighting standards.
Lara Jensen
Last week, a raft of Labor and Greens parliamentarians chose to wilfully ridicule a movement born from the heart of Western Australia — the Keep the Sheep campaign.
Slade Brockman
Federal Labor’s cavalier approach in amending the Export Control Act 2020 has significant implications for all of Australia’s $650 billion export industries, on which our national economy so heavily depends.
Chris Back
It’s no surprise the Labor-dominated parliamentary inquiry into the Albanese Government’s proposed live sheep export ban ignored the evidence and the science, writes Liberal Senator Slade Brockman.
‘Having grown up heavily involved in Pony Club through my teenage years, transitioning to fox hunting on horseback marked a significant shift in my equestrian pursuits’, writes Lake Hunt WA’s Jahn Trethowan.
Jahn Trethowan
