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Farmers in Western Australia's south-west have taken the matter of feral pests into their own hands, bagging more than 350 foxes three-day event.
Topics: pest-management, environment, animals, rural, shooting, boyup-brook-6244, wa
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| UpdatedA failure of the National Broadband Network's Sky Muster satellite leaves about 65,000 consumers across regional, rural and remote Australia without internet access just one day before a secondary satellite is decommissioned.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, regional, rural, brisbane-4000, qld
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A new era in cattle showing begins in Tasmania with the inaugural Tasmanian Junior Beef Expo.
Topics: rural, agricultural-shows, beef-cattle, rural-youth, deloraine-7304
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Deputy opposition leader Deb Frecklington says her party will move to amend the Sugar Industry Act today.
Topics: rural, agricultural-marketing, government-and-politics, sugar, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedThe Queensland opposition has vowed to force the major players in the state's sugar marketing dispute into arbitration, following stalled negotiations.
Topics: rural, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, agribusiness, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-crops, sugar, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedRick Pisaturo's story begins on the battlefields of World War II and ends in a decorated life in Australia.
Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, rural, livestock, beef-cattle, sydney-2000, italy
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| UpdatedSugarcane farmers in Queensland concerned about a payment dispute give a not-so-sweet message to Canberra.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600
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Topics: mining-rural, rural, agricultural-crops, gold, illabo-2590, junee-2663
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| UpdatedRebuilding of the infrastructure on farms in western New South Wales devastated by bushfire has started with the help of BlazeAid.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, livestock, beef-cattle, rural, volunteers, community-and-society, dunedoo-2844, scone-2337, maitland-2320
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| UpdatedThe sugar lobby group Canegrowers says a joint announcement by Australia and Indonesia to reduce import tariffs will improve competitiveness.
Topics: rural, business-economics-and-finance, sugar, agricultural-crops, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Police investigate allegations hundreds of thousands of dollars has been misappropriated from one of the Territory's most important alcohol rehabilitation programs.
Topics: government-and-politics, rural-youth, rural, alcohol, drug-use, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, rehabilitation, tennant-creek-0860, nt
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| UpdatedFlood-affected farmers in the south of Western Australia say the State Government has been too slow in reacting to their plight, adding there is a lack of comprehension around the scale of the damage.
Topics: floods, rural, government-and-politics, ravensthorpe-6346
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One of Western Australia's peak industry bodies says the organic industry in Australia needs to change its zero tolerance standard to the presence of GM organisms in organic crops.
Topics: genetically-modified-organisms, rural, genetically-modified-food, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, wa, perth-6000
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A review of Mackay Sugar's financial position has recommended a new levy on growers, as well as a restructure and the sale of assets.
Topics: rural, agricultural-marketing, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, sugar, mackay-4740
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The City of Karratha's mayor Peter Long is the only Western Australian to join the first board of the CRC for Developing Northern Australia.
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| UpdatedThe Meatworkers Union slams a northern Tasmanian abattoir run by JBS Australia for standing down workers for a second time in six months.
Topics: livestock, rural, industry, longford-7301, tas
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A Hunter Valley farmer is now running out of feed and water due to dry weather, months after the dairy price wars.
Topics: drought, rainfall, rural, agricultural-crops, dairy-production, livestock, east-gresford-2311, newcastle-2300, nsw
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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, regional, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, human-interest, australia