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News by Jade Gailberger 4th May 2021 9:10 AM | Updated: 9:38 AM Scott Morrison has revealed his governments controversial India travel ban is under review after being blasted as "incredibly heartless". The Prime Minister on Tuesday defended the tough restrictions but said the threat of jail or fines for returning Aussies returning from India was "highly unlikely"....

Premium Content Subscriber only “Get a steak into you, put some tomato sauce on it, maybe mushroom sauce...yum!” That was Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack’s response to activists calling for Rockhampton’s iconic Beef Australia event to be canned. Launched in Australia’s Bicentennial year, 1988, Beef Australia, Rockhampton’s flagship triennial event, has injected countless millions of dollars into the region’s economy and advanced the nation’s beef ...

Hosting a pink fundraiser supports cancer fight I am writing to encourage the community to help make a difference in the lives of mums impacted by cancer this Mother’s Day. One in six Queensland women will be diagnosed with a breast or gynaecological cancer in their lifetime - these women are our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends. Supporting is easy - you could turn Mother’s Day breakfast into a pink fundraiser or buy mum some pink ribbon accessories to don on the day, to help r...

Premium Content Subscriber only Coles and Teys Australia have signed a multi-year deal to have cattle bought by the supermarket chain processed at Teys’ Beenleigh abattoir. The agreement will be announced at Beef Australia in Rockhampton on Wednesday. Coles, which sources beef from more than 100 Queensland farms, is also beginning to do business with 15 more sunshine state suppliers. Counted among them are second-generation graziers Rob and Anne Bridle from Tara. The Bridle family has been br...

Premium Content Subscriber only Union chants echoed down Goondoon Street as hundreds took part in Gladstone’s Labour Day parade on Monday. Members from Australian and Central Queensland unions like the CFMEU, AMWU and United Workers Union took part. Marchers young and old took to the streets of Gladstone as part of the Labour Day celebration for 2021. The march concluded at the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s marina parklands where a free Labour Day event took place. Gladstone Mayor and n...

The $15 billion beef industry has lifted Australia out of recession 03/05/2021|4min Agriculture Minister David Littleproud says beef has been at the forefront of Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID-19. Speaking from Beef Week in Rockhampton Mr Littleproud said more than 100,000 people will attend the event. “We are one of the biggest beef exporting nations in the world, in fact number two, and out beef producers have had a pretty tough time over the last three years,” Mr Littlepr...

Budget’s $371m biosecurity boost will put ‘protective ring’ around agriculture, PM says Sarah Martin, chief political correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images A $371m biosecurity package that puts a “protective ring” around the agricultural sector is to be announced by the prime minister, Scott Morrison, three years after the Coalition’s failed attempt to introduce a biosecurity levy on industry. Tuesday’s budget anno...

In its pre-budget submission, the peak farming group said the government had been unable to come up with an alternative solution to fill a more than $100m per annum revenue gap left when the levy was dumped in 2020 amid an industry backlash. In a move aimed at ending the long-running funding saga, Morrison said the government would be “stepping up” and using the budget package to stop threats such as African swine fever, khapra beetle and foot and mouth disease entering Australia. â�...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Lockyer Valley year 12 student will represent her school at Rockhampton’s Beef Australia after earning a position as an official associate judge. Yasmin Carley has shown Lockyer District State High School’s Australian lowline cattle for the past year and was selected by the breed society to attend Beef Week. The 17-year-old, who doesn’t live on a farm, will also compete in the junior judging and junior paraders while at the week-long event. Lockyer Dist...

Its Beef Week in Northern Ireland and you could WIN a Big Green Egg BBQ It comes as the Livestock and Meat Commission gets set to highlight our fantastic local produce Sponsored To celebrate Beef Week in Northern Ireland (23-30 April) were giving you the chance to win The Big Green Egg Mini Max Outdoor barbeque (Image: Matt Austin) Today marks the start of Northern Irelands Beef Week - a week-long initiative taking place this year between April 23 to 30 which champions Northern Ireland Quality ...