Dookie farms under threat
Farmers in northern Victoria’s Dookie region said they were blindsided by plans to declare the area a Renewable Energy Zone, warning the move threatens some of the most productive cropping land in the state.
Farmers in northern Victoria’s Dookie region said they were blindsided by plans to declare the area a Renewable Energy Zone, warning the move threatens some of the most productive cropping land in the state.
Criminal syndicates have set their sights on remote renewable energy sites worth an estimated $35 billion, with industry experts fearing a “Wild West” scenario ahead.
Politicians play on “Australian-made” trucks that rely entirely on foreign parts as the nation’s complete manufacturing dependence threatens national security, writes Vikki Campion.
In just two decades, Australia has gone from energy self-sufficiency to dangerous dependence. Like the US, we can turn it around. The question is, will we?
Government ministers with no engineering background want to tell us that sunshine and wind can solve the fuel crisis. But it shows the very opposite — without fossil fuels we’re dead.
WA grain growers are facing a ‘Wheatbelt recession’ which will flow through the entire State as fuel and fertiliser shortages threaten to derail what was shaping as the perfect start to the season.
Australian farmers are warning the nation is racing towards catastrophe due to dwindling fertiliser supplies and no immediate federal government rescue plan.
The fuel access and price crisis that’s emerged this month driven by the Iran conflict is already taking a heavy toll on red meat supply chains.
Australia’s energy policy is a national suicide plan: we have oil and gas but can’t use them, refineries are closed, and renewables alone cannot keep the lights on.
Gina Rinehart says the government should cut or remove the fuel excise, arguing high petrol and diesel taxes are adding to inflation and putting extra pressure on households, farmers, small businesses and regional Australians.
Australia’s fuel crisis will endure long after the end of the Iran war, the head of the International Energy Agency says, in a stark warning that life won’t “get back to normal” for some time, as Anthony Albanese pleads with the mining industry to prioritise national security and be “constructive” with government.
