Opinion

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G-MW must transition with the community it services

For more than a century, some of Australia’s most innovative primary producers have accessed precious irrigation water through a delivery system, operated by Goulburn-Murray Water. It is this system that fuels the region’s intensive...

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Tired of the bedtime stories

After reading the bedtime story by Hare and Pyle from Wakool and Berrigan, I feel some clarification is necessary (’Response mirrors water mismanagement’, Country News, January 21). NSW operates and owns NSW irrigation, so any talks of...

Country News
Opinion

Astounded by comments

As an irrigator and passionate farmer I am astounded with the ongoing left, green arguments that John Pettigrew continues to express to the readers of the Country News. As the world renown 16-year-old shouts, so do I. “How dare you”, Mr...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Call for support from the NFF

It’s great to see National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simson heading to Deniliquin this week. She might learn something, including the fact that local advocacy groups have done the heavy lifting for lazy out of touch peak bodies who are...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Genetic solutions to heat stress

DOOKIE DIARY (By Professor Tim Reeves, Professor in Residence, Dookie Campus, University of Melbourne) It would be inappropriate to not start my 2020 diaries without acknowledging those who have suffered so greatly in the terrible bushfires and also...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Speak Up refutes abolish claim

I would like the opportunity to publicly refute the claims made by NSW State Member for Farrer and Environment Minister Sussan Ley, who has stated that Southern Riverina Irrigators and the Speak Up Campaign want to “abolish or pause the basin plan”...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Labor needs to wake up

When is the Labor government going to wake up and bring back the cattle, brumbies and logging? If they don’t we will have a big fire, no grasses and wildlife. Also Mathoura, Moama and Echuca could go. The greenies have too much control, they won’t...

Country News
Opinion

Are we really fire ready?

Richard and Jenny Naughton, Longwood and John Nissan, Locksley

Country News
Opinion

Charmaine Quick reflects on 2019 in her latest column

By Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Charmaine Quick

Rodney Woods
Opinion

The death of agricultural research

I must agree with Barry Croke (my fellow student at University of Melbourne) in his letter about research staff numbers being cut when he pointed to Australians being world leaders in agricultural research. In particular this applies to tropical...

Country News
Opinion

Billion dollar flush

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that 100 Gl of water will be allocated to eligible irrigators for the purposes of fodder production. Details of how this $100/Ml water can be accessed and how the resulting fodder is administered is...

Country News
Opinion

It’s time to address the cause of our water problem

The Bishop of Riverina Donald Kirk has described water as “the essence of life” and argued that the water market is infringing on the spiritual needs of people in the Murray-Darling Basin. According to an ABC report, in his opening...

Country News
Opinion

Native timber decision will destroy lives

With one stroke of his magic pen, the Premier for Melbourne, Daniel Andrews, has decimated the timber industry. With very little thought he has destroyed the lives of thousands of rural timber workers, all for the sake of some inner city green...

Country News
Opinion

It’s time to address the cause of our water problem

The Bishop of Riverina Donald Kirk has described water as “the essence of life” and argued that the water market is infringing on the spiritual needs of people in the Murray-Darling Basin. According to an ABC report, in his opening...

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Split MDBA up: Ryan

Irrigators and basin communities have lost faith in the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA). The only way to restore faith is genuine change. We must do more than just shuffle the deckchairs to earn the confidence of irrigators and Basin...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Troubling glimpse of the future

Regarding your front page story “Small water relief”. Are we getting a glimpse of the future with the Federal Government issuing 100 Gl of water at a set price, with which to grow stock feed? In a situation where there is not...

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Drought drives water management

This is what several people were calling for on Q&

Rodney Woods
Opinion

A job well done

Through your paper could I congratulate Phillip Glyde from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Jody Swirepik, and the visionaries who set up the MDBA, on their success in achieving their goals. With severe...

Rodney Woods

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Ready to start work on $2 billion project at Katunga

Renewable energy company AgBioEn will start earthworks on its $2 billion Katunga project on February 4. The project will turn agricultural waste into renewable fuels and is an Australian first. The company says it will create up to 1000 jobs...

Rodney Woods
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Shepparton stock agent posthumously becomes first Unsung Hero

Local stock agent Graeme Stone has become the first person from Greater Shepparton to be named as an Unsung Hero at the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. But sadly, he narrowly missed being around to hear the news.

Spencer Fowler Steen
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Ready to start work on $2 billion project at Katunga

Renewable energy company AgBioEn will start earthworks on its $2 billion Katunga project on February 4. The project will turn agricultural waste into renewable fuels and is an Australian first. The company says it will create up to 1000 jobs...

Rodney Woods
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Duck season delay

Member for Eastern Victoria Jeff Bourman says the delay in the announcement of the 2020 Victorian duck hunting season has demonstrated serious issues.

Jamieson Salter