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‘There’s no benefit’: Call to cut back daylight saving in NSW
NSW should knock two months off daylight saving and let it run from November to March because post-pandemic work habits have largely made it redundant, critics say.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Australian executive found unconscious in California street
Colin Bettles was found with severe injuries on a San Francisco street and was in the intensive care unit for days before his family tracked him down.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Bone found at Balmoral Beach reveals origins of Australia’s apex predator
When Sally Wasef sent a bone found in an exclusive Sydney enclave off for carbon testing, she thought it would be a couple of hundred years old. She was wrong.
- by Catherine Naylor
‘I thought it was a horse’: Rogue pigs run amok across NSW
Oscar Pearse was sitting on his tractor planting a crop of chickpeas when he looked over his shoulder and saw his nemeses approaching.
- by Catherine Naylor
How drought and disease in Brazil threaten Sunday brunch
Australian consumers have been warned to expect shortages of oranges and price hikes because of ongoing poor harvests in Brazil.
- by Andrew Taylor
Free-range farmers who care about their chickens face calamity
Avian flu is devastating Victoria’s egg farmers. Many are wondering whether they will have to take unthinkable action.
- by Benjamin Preiss
The small town between Melbourne and Adelaide where kelpies reign supreme
The Casterton Kelpie Muster has become a wildly successful dog show, resulting in world records and a tourism boom for the small Victorian town.
- by Najma Sambul
China drops its beef with Australia over meat exports
But even as the agriculture sector praised the federal government for the lifting of restrictions, Labor faces a fight over a proposed ban on live sheep exports.
- by Mike Foley
The deadly price of a perfect strawberry
We’re running out of medicines that can treat deadly fungal infections. A new agricultural chemical could make things even worse.
- by Angus Dalton
Drought could be ‘nail in the coffin’ for WA farmers
Large parts of the state’s fertile South West have recorded their lowest rainfall in more than 50 years over the past eight months.
- by Aaron Bunch
Why this WA farmer is digging a mass grave for 3000 sheep
The heartbroken farmer says he “can’t cope with the thought of shooting them” but that he has no choice. He is not the only one.
- by Sarah Brookes