Solar, wind and large-scale battery developments would be forced to pay far more in emergency services taxes if the Coalition wins government in Victoria on November 28.
Telecommunications Minister Anika Wells has axed funding for the nation’s Regional Tech Hub, which each year helped 28,000 rural and remote Australians sort out their mobile, internet and other connectivity problems.
Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority scientists have warned anglers against feeding children fish from waterways, after finding alarming levels of PFAS forever chemicals in water, crustaceans and fish.
Government research funding underpinning Australia’s food security has been slashed by more than $100m in the past four years, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The founder, director and financial backer of the Murray Darling Basin’s Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Robert Purves, has scooped up 11.2 million Duxton Water shares to profit on its speculation in irrigation water trading.
Property records show more than 30 dairy farms across the Corangamite shire have been sold to blue gum plantation developer Otway Silva since 2022, a subsidiary of German insurance giant Munich Re.
Cracks are appearing in Australia’s response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, as many Victorian free-range poultry producers declare they are unable to comply with mandatory orders to lock up their birds until August 21.
