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Have you ever wanted to find out more about using guardian dogs on your property to protect your livestock from wild dogs. Guardian dogs are quickly becoming a popular option in western Queensland and now a Best Practise Manual has been created to provide more information. Their success is spoken ...Thursday 9 September 2010
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Thursday 9 September 2010
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Have you ever wanted to try your hand at droving? A young couple from Toowoomba recently did after throwing in their jobs and jumping in the car to travel Australia. Zac and Marsha Kronk plan to work their way around the nation but never thought that walking a herd of cattle down the Diamantina river ...Wednesday 8 September 2010
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Regional Queensland voters are said to be some of the more conservative in the country and Longreach in the central west is conservative heartland. The LNP's Bruce Scott was returned to office with 64 per cent of the primary vote. So how do the locals feel about the decision by two country New South ...Wednesday 8 September 2010
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Wednesday 8 September 2010
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Calling for celebratory, thoughtful, descriptive, creative works that engage with the human/avian relationship. Birds are everywhere. Even in the center of the cities, the white cockatoos call as they form silhouettes against blue sky; the rosellas squabble for fruit. And in the bush birds ...Friday 30 July 2010
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Australia's rural and regional communities are the focus of the deal which re-elected the Gillard Government. In return for their support, independent MPs won promised spending for country Australia worth nearly 10-billion-dollars. But will that investment deliver a sustainable future for ...Thursday 9 September 2010
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A Federal MP plans to introduce a private members motion to ban live cattle exports and 900 delegates gather in Darwin for fire conference....
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Northern NSW federal MP Janelle Saffin will introduce a private members motion to ban the live export of cattle. Ms Saffin says it's an issue that is up for debate and has the backing of the industry. But beef producers in northern NSW say if a ban goes ahead, it'll devastate Australia's beef ...Thursday 9 September 2010
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Overfishing is a problem in Australia, but we've come a long way in recent years in terms of fishing sustainability, say scientists and environmentalists....
Thursday 9 September 2010
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