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21.01.2022 KEITH URBAN IS COMING TO WA! Hold onto your hats and dust off your cowboy boots country music megastar Keith Urban is heading west. The five-time ARIA and four-time Grammy Award winner hits RAC Arena on December 14 as part of his The Speed of Now World Tour next year.... It’s the first time Urban, who is married to Aussie screen royalty Nicole Kidman, has played a Perth show since 2014.
21.01.2022 SNAPPER THAT WAS ALIVE IN WWII CAUGHT OFF BROOME An 81-year-old midnight snapper caught off WA’s north coast has taken the title of the oldest tropical reef fish in the world. The snapper, alive during World War II, was found 300km west of Broome at the Rowley Shoals.... The discovery was part of a study on the longevity of tropical fish.
19.01.2022 Thousands of WA families have reunited for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck, as the island within an island finally reopens to interstate travellers after 222 days of turning them away. Scores of cars were on Friday night banked up at the land borders into WA with some travellers planning to begin the final stage of the long drive home as soon as the clock hit midnight and the State officially transitioned to a controlled border.
19.01.2022 Qatar’s move to end subsidies on $300 million of Australian sheepmeat imports will significantly hit WA’s Hillside Meat Processors. Qatar’s government-controlled Widam Food Company yesterday notified markets a subsidy that had been in place for five years would end on December 31 two years earlier than originally planned.
18.01.2022 EMERGENCY PLAN FOR PENFOLDS Treasury Wine Estates has unveiled an emergency plan to find new markets for its best-known labels including Penfolds after China imposed crippling anti-dumping duties of 169 per cent on its wine over the weekend.
17.01.2022 Bessie is on the lookout! Have you got a cab mate? Bernie Carlton
16.01.2022 PAY SQUEAL The former boss of WA’s peak pork body recently convicted of stealing from the organisation has launched legal action claiming to be owed more than $100,000. Russell Cox has sued the WA Pork Producers Association in the District Court, claiming to be owed $112,488.75 for allegedly unpaid wages for work performed.
16.01.2022 SHEARING TIME AT KOJONUP Fleeces were looking lustrous, white and bright inside the McGuire family’s Jingalup woolshed, where shearing was under way after a dry season. Woolgrower Richard McGuire said he was pleased with how contractor Jury Shearing was handling the wool shorn from his family’s mixed-aged ewes.
15.01.2022 On the job at Boyup Brook Cally Dupe
14.01.2022 Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded an apology from China after an official from its Foreign Ministry released a fake image of an Australian soldier with a knife to the throat of an Afghani child.
13.01.2022 #BREAKING Qatar has reportedly moved to shut down the multi-million dollar lamb trade with Australia in a blow that could hit WA producers hard.
09.01.2022 NEW WORLD TRADE PACT COULD HELP MEND CHINA RELATIONS A new world trade pact that is the biggest ever of its kind could help thaw Australia's relationship with China. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Trade Minister Simon Birmingham will this afternoon sign the new Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).... The biggest of its kind, the deal is a multilateral free trade agreement with 15 countries including China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the 10 ASEAN members.
08.01.2022 SCOTT MORRISON SPEAKS OUT Scott Morrison says Australia will not surrender its sovereignty as it manages the issues raised by China during an extraordinary period of time in the relationship. An unofficial list of grievances was briefed to Australian media by Chinese officials earlier this month, highlighting Australia siding with the US and implementing foreign interference laws against China as some of the issues in the tense relationship.
08.01.2022 There are high hopes a proposed go-kart track in Laverton will be a drawcard for the northern Goldfields town, attracting rev-heads from across the State. WA Labor on Friday night threw its support behind the proposal with an $80,000 election promise to help get the facility off the ground.
08.01.2022 THANKS FOR SAVING CROPS Katanning Baptist Church members have thanked volunteer firefighters for saving their canola crop and farmland from a fire that forced the closure of Warren Road. Nearly 50 volunteers were involved in fighting the blaze that was reported about 2.15pm near Withers Road on Sunday.
07.01.2022 Bega Cheese is buying the company behind Masters milk and Big M from Japanese alcohol giant Kirin, returning the iconic brands to Australian ownership.
05.01.2022 AUSTRALIA ON TRACK FOR SECOND-BIGGEST CROP Australia is on track for its second-biggest grain harvest on record as farmers relish bumper crops after years of crippling drought. The Federal Government’s agriculture forecaster predicts a 76 per cent rise in the nation's winter crop production, which is expected to be 51.5 million tonnes.
04.01.2022 HARVEST TIME In the rich crop growing region of the Great Southern, the Wise family are gearing up for harvest in hopes of being rewarded for their efforts on the land. Clinton Wise’s great-grandfather Herbert, a Woodanilling pioneer, cleared the family’s initial bush block in 1898, that led five generations to follow at Wililoo, the Wise family’s home farm.
03.01.2022 When Bruce Rock’s one and only supermarket burnt down in March, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a tragedy for the eastern Wheatbelt community. With the closest shop 100km away in Merredin and pandemic directives to stay home there was a sense of urgency to find an alternative for the tight-knit farming town. Within a week, the community had achieved the unthinkable, setting up a temporary store in the local hall, which is still running today.
02.01.2022 WA FARMERS HOPING FOR AVERAGE YIELDS IN TOUGH YEAR It has been a stop-start harvest for many growers across the State, but Brookton farmer Murray Hall is looking for silver linings. Despite dry conditions in the past two years and a 42mm dumping mid-harvest this month yields throughout the region are looking promising.
01.01.2022 EXCLUSIVE: When Nicola Maurice met a young Andrew Forrest in the 1980s, little did the couple know they would go on to become one of Australia's most formidable business and philanthropy teams. Nicola Forrest opens up on family, generosity and what drives her to succeed.
01.01.2022 CRASH NORTH BOYANUP Update as of 6pm: The RAC Rescue helicopter took a female patient to Royal Perth Hospital and five patients were transported by road to Bunbury Hospital. The incident occurred near Lillydale Road in North Boyanup.... Motorists are being asked to avoid the area. South Western Highway is closed between the intersection of the highway and the Bunbury Outer Ring Road through to Dardanup Road West. RAC Rescue helicopter has been sent to a multiple vehicle crash on South Western Highway, North Boyanup. Career and volunteer firefighters from Donnybrook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service are at the scene. More to come. See more
01.01.2022 While exports of Australia’s resources to China look safe for now, despite lingering trade tensions between the two countries, the local agriculture sector is likely to take the biggest hit. But a new report from Oxford Economics offers an upbeat assessment, noting the affected products represent only a minor share of Australia’s agricultural exports and any further deterioration in the Beijing-Canberra relationship would have only a small impact on the overall export outlook.
