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Senator The Hon. Senator Bill Heffernan when speaking more as a Junee farmer rather than as a renowned head-kicking politician, shows a greater appreciation of life on the land than his Melbourne and Sydney colleagues combined. Tax breaks for carbon sink forests are set to be implemented after Nationals senators, who believe the scheme will have a devastating effect on agriculture, failed to convince Liberal colleagues to vote against it. An interim report into the pricing and supply arrangements in the Australian and global fertiliser market was handed down on 2 decemver 2008. Senator HEFFERNAN —Tonight I want to talk about something that ought not be political, that is in the national interest and that is all about the future of Australia. The Queensland round of water buybacks begins today, offering the chance for Queensland irrigators to sell their water allocations to the Federal Government under the $400 million Water Initiative.
In the meantime we've seen the Queensland ...The Senate Select Committee on Agricultural and related Industries, Chaired by Senator Heffernan, is currently examining food production in Australia and the question of how to produce food that is:
a. A Senate inquiry has heard the Federal and state governments are still failing the farmers, communities and environment of the Murray Darling Basin.
If Federal Water Minister Penny Wong and the Murray Darling Basin state governments thought this ...On 27 August 2008, the Senate referred water management in the Coorong and Lower Lakes for inquiry.
The inquiry will examine the volume of water which could be provided into the Murray-Darling system to replenish the Lower Lakes and Coorong, as ...The Senate's latest inquiry will examine how Australia can produce enough food for itself and maintain its major export capacity in the face of global warming. Senator Bill Heffernan, Liberal Senator for NSW announced today the establishment of a Senate inquiry into meat marketing. Senator Bill Heffernan, Liberal Senator for NSW announced recently the establishment of a Senate Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries.
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