Trump’s global tariffs have bombed the Australian share market and thrown up new affronts for WA, which now has to assert its place in a new world left alienated politically and commercially by Uncle Sam.
Simone Grogan, Caitlyn Rintoul, Joe Spagnolo & Bloomberg
Business and Australian farmers are deeply disappointed about Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariffs on Australian exports, warning six billion American hamburgers will be more expensive.
Katina Curtis
The chief of billionaire Gina Rinehart’s massive agriculture empire has likened Australia’s ‘whinging and moaning’ over US President Donald Trump’s tariffs to that of a petulant child.
Cheyanne Enciso
Kimberley pastoralists have claimed a significant victory in a legal battle with the State Government and had their pastoral rents slashed.
Cally Dupe
WA’s oldest dairy, Brownes, has reported a lift in full-year profit and revenue in what boss Natalie Sarich-Dayton says was fuelled by the brand’s positive reception in the UK and South-East Asia.
Northern Australia’s cattle industry is heading back to court to resolve a long-running class action against the Federal Government’s 2011 live export ban, with hundreds of pastoralists yet to see a cent.
Hundreds of cars and trucks took to the streets of Perth this morning to show their support for farmers and protest the Albanese Government’s plan to ban live sheep exports.
Hundreds of farmers and truckies are moving through Perth’s major arterial roads as they protest against the Federal Government’s live sheep export ban.
Jessica Evensen and Cally Dupe
Curtin MP Kate Chaney has declared she will not be beholden to lobby groups after being targeted by a fierce ultimatum by grassroots campaign Keep the Sheep.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Kojonup farmer Steve McGuire has been named the new president of WAFarmers, taking the reins from John Hassell who has stepped down after a “wonderful” four years.
United States President Donald Trump is being urged to impose tariffs on Australia’s wheat exports, with the American industry arguing an over-reliance on imports was a risk to national security.
Ellen Ransley and Jackson Hewett
Kalyeeda Station - which has become an unlikely Instagram hit - comes with two houses, a cottage, staff quarters with 12 bedrooms, 20 bores, 39 troughs and several lakes.
Kim Macdonald
Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 won’t be easy, but growing meat and feasting on insects are some of the ways to get us there.
Simon Collins
With five years left of Earth’s ‘decisive decade’, Sam Elsom speaks about the headwinds and heartbreak of finding solutions in a world often indifferent to what he sees as the most pressing issue for us all.
Simone Grogan
Curtin MP Kate Chaney is under pressure to make her stance on the live export ban clear to WA farmers, who are threatening to wage war against her.
A decision on whether agribusiness juggernaut Elders will be allowed to buy out rival Delta Ag for $475 million has been postponed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart says payroll tax and licence fees should be scrapped to protect small businesses and farmers, as trade tensions rise under President Donald Trump.
Farmers lobbying to save live sheep exports will take to the streets of Perth this month as the issue heats up ahead of the Federal election.
Cally Dupe and Bob Garnant
A Fremantle startup believes it can use water from Regis Resources’ gold mining pits to grow red seaweed that makes cow burps and farts less pollutive.
Adrian Rauso
Australian feedlots are turning off record numbers as China cements itself as the nation’s biggest market for grain-fed beef
PGA president Tony Seabrook confirmed that a meeting of creditors today had backed a deed of company arrangement endorsed by administrators from RSM.
Sean Smith
Australian farmers are bracing for disruption to their $1 billion-a-year boxed meat market to the US after Donald Trump flagged plans to implement tariffs on agricultural imports next month.
The company says protracted Commonwealth scrutiny threatens to delay production from its Mardie salt project, described last year by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek as a potential ‘game changer’.
The WA property was put on the market with a ‘walk-in, walk-out’ arrangement, with the sale including its massive sheep flock which has at its peak reached nearly 80,000 head.
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