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The simple trick to stop another $1 billion mouse plague disaster
A photo of a wheat field studded with a neat line of holes caught Professor Peter Banks’ eye, sparking a research project that could halt mice in their tracks.
- by Angus Dalton
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More rats up north, fewer mice in south
When cane growers in the north Queensland farming town of Ingham noticed their crops suddenly started falling over, they knew they had a serious problem.
- by Liv Casben and Rachael Ward
With the mouse plague beaten - for now - floodwaters raise the Osbornes’ fears again
Record rainfall across the state is taking an enormous toll on rural landholders in NSW. And the mouse plague might not be entirely done with, either.
- by Amelia McGuire
Mouse plague forces evacuation of NSW prisoners
The mouse plague in the state’s central west is causing chaos at a prison.
- by Daniella White
Opinion
Column 8
Divine intervention required on the back nine
While Pontius Pilot is cleared for take off.
Farmers welcome $100 million support as ‘first step’ to battle mouse plague
The NSW government has announced a $100 million support package to farmers after its original package was labelled by farmers as “an impractical and dysfunctional joke”.
- by Daniella White
‘Everywhere’s bad’: Farmers eye long campaign against mouse plague
Farmers across inland NSW are bracing for a long battle against the mouse plague with any lull during winter expected to be reversed once spring brings renewed food supplies as crops ripen.
- by Peter Hannam
LETTERS
Letters
Stop all this looking for someone else to blame
Age readers discuss the latest lockdown in Victoria, hotel quarantine and Victoria’s QR app.
‘Toxic timebombs’: The problem with the plan to stop the mouse plague
A highly toxic poison being released to control the mouse plague could have serious effects on farm animals and wildlife but do little to curb the rodent explosion.
- by Peter Hannam
‘People are not coping’: Farmers fear $1 billion mouse plague bill
NSW Farmers says the state government needs to offer immediate assistance to plague-affected communities.
- by Daniella White
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