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31 Oct 2005 | Bush phone lines may cost much more
Telstra warned that people in rural areas could end up paying 10 times more for their telephone lines if the competition regulator forces Telstra to cut the amount it charges competing telcos for network access in the city. ...... FULL STORY
28 Oct 2005 | Agents won’t work with sheep ID rules
Stock and station agents say they will boycott the sheep National Livestock Identification System. ...... FULL STORY
28 Oct 2005 | Some GM contamination tolerated
State and federal agriculture ministers have agreed to adjust moratoria on genetically modified crops to allow a threshold of 0.9 per cent contamination in crops. ...... FULL STORY
25 Oct 2005 | Avocado market information ripens
Avocados Australia, an industry body, said it developed Infocado, an internet-based marketing information system to enable the industry to smooth out the peaks and troughs in weekly volumes of fruit. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2005 | ABARE takes hard line against GM moratorium
Australian grain growers may lose at least $3 billion in income over the next 15 years if the state governments did not lift their moratoriums banning commercial planting of genetically modified crops... ...... FULL STORY
13 Oct 2005 | Telstra turns to Elders to market bush broadband
Telstra and Elders said Mt Gambier in South Australia’s South-East would be the third pilot site for a joint initiative aimed at improving rural access to telecommunications products and services. ...... FULL STORY
13 Oct 2005 | More GM canola found in Victoria
The first traceable case of genetically modified contamination in commercially grown non-GM canola in Australia was recorded last week in the West Wimmera, Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
7 Oct 2005 | Many canola crops likely to include GM seeds
The canola crop of a Wimmera farmer has been found to be contaminated with Bayer's Liberty Link gene at a level of 0.5 per cent. ...... FULL STORY
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