Rural News

Ballarat region potato farmers in central Victoria say Central Highlands Water has failed to listen to their pleas to have the goldfields' superpipe buried 1.5 metres under their properties.

The Lakes Entrance Fishermen's Co-op says members are angry at continued delays to clearing the channel of a major sand build-up.

Regional South Australians in the north and north-west have featured strongly in a list of 60 South Australians to have been named in the Queen's Birthday Honour's list today.

The Whyalla City Council says it wants South Australian Government support for a renewable energy system to feature in a proposed desalination plant.

A tour boat operator who unveiled a bronze statue of Sammy the seal on the weekend says the location of the memorial is important to the seal's memory.

The number of active rock lobster fishermen is dwindling as the season draws to an end.

The National party is calling on the Western Australian Government to immediately provide funds to resurrect the sugar industry in the East Kimberley.

In Central Australia's Finke Desert Race, the king of the desert title has gone interstate for the third year in a row.

After supporting anti-council amalgamation protests, rugby league veteran Shane Webcke is now doing the hard yards for Queensland's primary producers.

A Townsville scientist is to receive an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for his service to science through pasture and animal research.

The South Australian Government says the possibility of a zero water allocation for irrigators in July is now off the table.

Residents in Darwin's rural areas will be swapping cane toads for ice-creams today as part of an incentive to rid the Northern Territory of the pests.

Tasmanian fishermen are preparing for the start of the commercial scallop season.

The Fisheries Minister Jon Ford has moved to justify his intention to radically change recreational fishing laws in Western Australia.

The Territory's Environment Centre says the handling of alleged environmental breaches at Alcan's Gove refinery needs to be more transparent.

The forestry company Auspine is taking legal action over its failed softwood log supply deal.

The Western Australian Farmers Federation (WAFF) says the outlook is grim for many wheat farmers if there is not significant rainfall in the next few weeks.

A big outing for fishers in an outback western New South Wales town has been called off because of rain.

The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is urging caution over predictions that a record cropping area will be sown this year, saying good returns are still a long way off for farmers.

The Water Corporation says there is still a need to conserve water in northern Western Australia and Kimberley despite high rainfall over the wet season.