Transport Minister Rita Saffioti won’t say whether she will ever seek Federal funding to fix any of WA’s Tier 3 rail lines, four years after raising farmers’ hopes she would chase at least $500 million.
Adam Poulsen & Cally Dupe
Rod Sims is the latest high-profile figure to voice concerns about the Albanese Government’s ‘Made in Australia’ vision.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
The grains industry will be hit hardest if the Albanese Government’s controversial biosecurity levy passes the Senate, with growers nationwide set to be slugged $12.25 million a year according to new figures.
Adam Poulsen
WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has called on her Federal counterpart Murray Watt to postpone Australia’s annual live export moratorium as the State’s sheep farmers hit a crisis point.
Olivia Ford
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt is confident inquiries into supermarket prices will result in better deals for primary producers.
Andrew Brown
The WA Nationals have announced their first candidates in metropolitan seats, including Bateman and South Perth.
Jake Dietsch
The boss of the nation’s peak resources lobby group has joined the growing opposition against the Future Made in Australia plan, saying the initiative will “lock taxpayers into paying for long-term subsidies”.
Adrian Rauso
WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has refuted ‘false’ claims by the WA Nationals that she ‘advised’ drought-stricken farmers to euthanise their livestock, saying her comments were taken out of context.
Farm lobby groups have welcomed the long-awaited release of a report into Australia’s embattled agricultural and veterinary chemicals regulator and vowed to ‘critically assess’ all of its 33 recommendations.
Adam Poulsen & Rebecca Turner
NATURE POSITIVE: The man behind the Albanese Government’s environmental law re-write has quoted Mark Twain by saying reports of the controversial reforms being killed off are ‘greatly exaggerated’.
The Cook Government will establish a 2024 Dry Season Taskforce to help producers facing tough seasonal conditions, but farmers say more needs to be done to directly address how Labor policy has affected them.
Olivia Ford & Matthew Paddick
The Federal Government’s promised re-write of environmental protection laws has been put on the back burner in a win for miners and a blow to green groups
Dan Jervis-Bardy, Josh Zimmerman and Katina Curtis
Nationals MP Martin Aldridge will retire from politics at the next election, drawing a line under a decade-long career in Parliament.
Josh Zimmerman
For most families, politics at the dinner table is a topic to be shied away from, but for Kirrilee Warr it was the catalyst for her career.
Anna Cox
WA will spend $4.4 million to deploy a second trade commissioner to southeast Asia – this time based in Singapore – as the State seeks to tap the rapidly emerging growth economies of the ASEAN region.
Leading lobby groups say it’s time for the Federal Government to intervene and investigate barriers for major retailers to enter Australia, and why one German group abandoned its plans after spending $500m.
Adrian Lowe
Government sources have told The Nightly that Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is now willing to comprise and put key ambitions of the so-called ‘Nature Positive’ green laws on the backburner.
The WA Nationals have used the third anniversary of cyclone Seroja to reveal it will set up a standalone disaster recovery agency if it forms Government at next year’s election.
Agricultural Region MLC Steve Martin has raised questions about a damning auditor-general report on the State agriculture department, but he said the response he received was less then satisfactory.
Liberal leader Libby Mettam has called out the State Government for its ‘complete and utter failure’ to strengthen WA’s supply chains as supermarket shelves remain empty due to severe flooding.
Claire Sadler
Two farmers will represent the WA Nationals in the battle to win the seats of Geraldton and Warren-Blackwood, with Chapman Valley’s Kirrilee Warr and Manjimup’s Bevan Eatts announced as candidates.
Anna Cox & Olivia Ford
The Albanese Government’s controversial new biosecurity protection levy has progressed to the Senate despite a wave of backlash from the Opposition and farmers nationwide.
The WA Nationals have selected their candidate to try to win back the seat of Warren-Blackwood, after the party lost it in a shock 2021 result.
Oliver Lane
Kirrilee Warr has emerged victorious from the Nationals WA’s State Council meeting and will represent them in the battle to win the seat of Geraldton in the 2025 State Election.