Ekka shows luckiest state in the luckiest nation

Posted: 16 Aug 11 | EKKA time is here again. As gates open for this year’s festivities, Queensland Country Life offers its thanks and best wishes to organisers, exhibitors, participants, competitors and show-goers of all shapes and sizes. |

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Hendra fight needs tactics to match the dollars

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | Weeks of shocking news about the deadly Hendra virus have Queenslanders worried. Fear of the virus and inadequate preparation by authorities has prompted calls for a state-wide bat cull. |

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Labor’s light dims in Gillard’s green idiocracy

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | When Julia Gillard put the Rudd Government out of its misery, she announced its epitaph. It was a ‘good Government that lost its way’, she said. |

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Agriculture returns to political centre stage

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | THE LNP, rebadged as Can-Do Queensland under parliamentary outsider, Campbell Newman has started on the long lead-up to the 2012 election. |

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A tax scam built on a contradiction

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | Julia Gillard’s save-the-planet carbon tax and its accompanying package of compensation for sceptical voters are scams built on a contradiction – ongoing dramatic increases in the volume of carbon-generating coal from Australian mines. |

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A government not worth feeding

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | EVER since the live-ex fiasco burst from television sets tuned to four corners, the Gillard government has been desperate to saddle Meat and Livestock Australia and its live-ex partners with the blame. |

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Australia torn over live-ex. Ludwig visits the smoking crater.

Posted: 08 Aug 11 | Today Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig visits the edge of the chasm torn across Australia by the Indonesian live-export fiasco. |

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Bligh bites green hand in CSG defence

Posted: 16 Aug 11 | The State Government’s self-serving environmental strategy, which has local economies and farming businesses across Queensland under siege, has taken a strange turn. |

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CSG benefits must flow to regional QLD

Posted: 15 Aug 11 | The Queensland Resources Council and the State Government say coal seam gas development is good for us. |

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Abu Dhabi can’t rebuild Queensland’s goat tracks

Posted: 15 Aug 11 | THANK heaven for Abu Dhabi. It is a tiny gulf state smaller than Bankstown, bigger than Parramatta with two and a half times their combined population. |

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Clem Lemon, big rail divert dollars from the bush

Posted: 15 Aug 11 | While the bush fights back from floods and cyclones; as it works harder with less to do more for the economy; as rural infrastructure declines; as the death toll on rural highways goes up and as small towns beg a fair go in the mining onslaught… Spare a thought for how the other half lives. |

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It is time to unplug the Kevin Rudd show

Posted: 15 Aug 11 | They are at it again. Personality cultists. Fetishists who prefer politicians dressed for TV over those dedicated to policy are back in the media selling more voodoo. Once again it’s Kevin Rudd, TV darling, in their spotlight. |

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