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Good rainfall in South Australia is proving to be a benefit for more than just the winter crop season; Sturt's Desert Pea is flowering earlier than usual.

Councils in the marginal federal South Australian seat of Wakefield have made a submission for $50 million in infrastructure funding to each of the electorate's candidates.

The State Government has admitted it doesn't have any figures on the value of tourism in the Tamar Valley.

The Northern Territory Government has been granted permission to appeal against a decision giving traditional owners exclusive access to large areas of the Territory's coastal waters and rivers.

Water saved by some of Menindee's irrigators, in far western New South Wales, worried about the lack of flow in the Darling River, will be shared by others.

The latest update on water contingency planning for the Murray-Darling Basin says there has not been a significant change in dire conditions.

South Australian dairy farmers have produced more milk this year, bucking the national trend of a drop in production.

Pig farmers in South Australia's mid-north are said to be leaving the industry, with the closure of the Port Wakefield abattoir being given as one of the reasons for their departure.

Drought-affected farmers are confident they will get Government assistance, after a range of meetings hosted by a parliamentary committee.

Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says water saved in the Goulburn Valley, in north-east Victoria, will go to Melbourne before local irrigators.

The Western Australian Opposition says Ord stage two will not happen because of the State Government's failure to commit to maintaining WA's northern sugar industry and its refusal to lift the ban on genetically modified (GM) cotton.

The Commonwealth has failed in an attempt to have a compensation claim by farmers fighting land clearing regulations dismissed.

The cause of a large number of oyster deaths that plagued Western Australia's pearling industry remains a mystery, despite months of tests by researchers.

South Australian dairy farmers have produced more milk this year, bucking the national trend of a drop in production.

An executive from South Australia's Primary Industries Department says mining has put the state on the verge of a once in a generation change in economic development.

More than 1100 people have supported a motion calling on the Launceston City Council to oppose the proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill.

Opponents of the Didicoolum Drain in the upper south-east of South Australia say they're running out of ways to try to stop the excavation works.

The founder of a multi-million dollar internet business is backing a legal challenge to Tasmania's proposed pulp mill because he believes the project would damage the state environmentally and economically.

More than 1,100 people have gathered at Launceston's Albert Hall for a public meeting on Gunns' proposed pulp mill.

The latest update on water contingency planning for the Murray-Darling Basin says there has not been a significant change in dire conditions.