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An Alternative View

18 August, 2016 - Ian James Agriculture has changed a lot from the old days when a farmer would drive a team of horses around a small field all day. Back then t...

Book Review: Dark Emu. Black Seeds: agriculture or accident by Bruce Pascoe

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Until I saw Bruce Pascoe on a TV program, I think it was “Big Ideas” on ABC, it did not enter my consciousness that Australian ...

Ecological vs Industrial Agriculture: How to Feed the World Without Overheating It

18 August, 2016 - Rob Delves Im calling two opposing systems of agriculture 'Ecological versus 'Industrial. Of course, there are many varieties of farming pract...

Editorial: The Greens and WA Agriculture

18 August, 2016 - The Green Issue Editors While we celebrate the return of Rachel and Scott to the Senate, this GI takes a peak into our rural scene. The Greens...

Greens (WA) call for farmer protection and oppose lifting the gate to GM crops in WA

18 August, 2016 - Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC This year has not been a promising one for advocates for GM free crops in WA: organic farmers Steve and Sue Marsh lost t...

Perspectives on GMOs

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Greens Leader Richard Di Natale recently expressed his opinion that not everything about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...

Rachel's Page

18 August, 2016 - Senator Rachel Siewert After a month of dangling on tenter hooks both Scott and I are thrilled to be returned to the Senate. Over the next few...

Scott's Page

18 August, 2016 - Senator Scott Ludlam We all thought Election Day was the deadline, after which we could all pause and take a breath. But with the result hangi...

Supporting Sustainable Agriculture

18 August, 2016 - Senator Rachel Siewert Apparently during the federal election campaign the Greens had more farmers running as candidates than the Nationals - ...

The Feral Goat Plague

18 August, 2016 - Hon Robin Chapple MLC Goats first arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 and soon became feral as domestic goats escaped, were aban...

Volunteer experience of phase 1 of the election campaign (aka Federal election 2016)

18 August, 2016 - Chilla Bulbeck You have just completed the largest supporter engagement Greens WA campaign ever. We increased our lower house vote in 3 of ...

Water conservation in the southern region of WA

18 August, 2016 - Adrian Price Blending water with electricity In the days when steam trains served farmers and rural communities with a wide variety of goods,...