Agribusiness

PropertyBusiness

Agri-baron Danny Thomas fights for his future over $4.9m dispute

A missed $1.4m payment has exposed Danny Thomas’s private agricultural empire to potential bankruptcy proceedings, threatening his 25-year career in land deals. It all stems from a partnership he claims was never sustainable.

David Ross

CEO Survey 2026Leadership

Strong trade ‘key to our future’: Treasury Wines

The boss of one of Australia’s biggest wine companies has delivered an upbeat assessment of the economy while warning against overreach on work from home mandates.

Sam Fischer

CommentaryCompanies

Wine hit exposes cracks in Treasury’s costly US strategy

A new chief executive at Treasury Wine Estates has moved quick to clear the decks but investors could be forgiven for suffering whiplash.

Eric Johnston

‘Culture wars’Politics

Watt rejects Tasmanian concern at environmental reform

Federal environment reforms have triggered a fierce political clash after Murray Watt dismissed Tasmanian concerns as deliberate misinformation about forestry impacts.

Sarah Ison

exclusiveWorld

‘Tariff pain is real for us farmers, time to move beyond China’

In the US soybean belt, third-generation farmer Chris Eck says trade tensions with Beijing have slashed prices and squeezed profits, but argues the industry must now look to new horizons.

Joe Kelly

EnergyAgribusiness

Farmers ‘to fight Santos gas plan’

The rural body NSW Farmers has engaged senior counsel to begin a potential legal challenge against Santos’s $3.6bn Narrabri gas project, threatening fresh delays for the embattled proposal.

Lachlan Leeming

EnergyBusiness

Rinehart says net zero is a bad policy founded on economic lies

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has backed the Liberal Party’s net zero backflip, declaring the emissions target a bad policy making farming more difficult and expensive.

Brad Thompson

BACK AUSTRALIAAgribusiness

Inside the secret succession plan of one of Australia’s biggest farming families

Family remains at the core of one of Australia’s largest, longest-running rural property companies.

Damon Kitney

AgribusinessAgribusiness

AACo’s record profit has nothing in the kitty for mum-and-dad investors

Billionaire-controlled Wagyu beef giant AACo has delivered a record half-year profit but has continued its 17-year streak of withholding dividends from long-suffering smaller investors.

Tansy Harcourt

AgricultureBusiness

Forrests seek new boss for Minderoo station, couples welcome

Their cattle business is back in the black, but only just, as the Forrests seek a ‘dynamic leader’ for the Minderoo operations covering 760,000 hectares. A home will be provided.

Brad Thompson

ExclusiveNation

Farming chief calls for food security, opposes ‘renewables at any cost’

Australia may be the lucky country but there are real and present dangers to its food production, according to the new head of the National Farmers’ Federation, Hamish McIntyre.

Matthew Denholm

ExclusiveAgribusiness

Stop treating cows and cars the same: farmers revolt over climate blame

Eating a steak should not be equated to driving a petrol car in the climate debate, say cattle farmers. They’re pushing a plan to end their global warming ‘whipping boy’ status.

Matthew Denholm

PropertyBusiness

Agrifunder in administration after $150m rescue deal fails

A string of bad loans to farmers has triggered the dramatic collapse of Australia’s leading cattle finance company, as its major backers pull their support. They hope to find a buyer.

David Ross and Tansy Harcourt

AgribusinessBusiness

Goodbye to ‘farmers’ wives’ as rural women push for board jobs

No longer labelled ‘farmers’ wives’, women are running sophisticated agricultural operations yet hold just 19 per cent of board of board positions in the industry.

Helen Trinca

ExclusiveNation

Fine art of forest hotel diplomacy reframes Apple Isle’s logging debate

Can art – and a little land swap – help save Tasmania’s most contested native forests? Mona’s Kirsha Kaechele thinks so, but the Bob Brown Foundation is unconvinced.

Matthew Denholm

ExclusiveNation

Salmon advice ‘skating around truth’

The salmon wars look set to return, with the Albanese government accused of misleading UNESCO and Murray Watt facing another big decision on the endangered Maugean skate.

Matthew Denholm

CommentaryCommentary

AusSuper’s funds flowing down the plug its boss forgot to refit

The $400bn AustralianSuper faces an exodus as wealthy members and their financial planners seek retirement options elsewhere. It’s a rare competitive threat to the not-for-profit sector.

John Durie

Old-growth treesNation

2035 emissions target reignites forest wars

Should Australia take the axe to native-forest logging as an ‘instant, upfront fix’ to its 2035 carbon emissions reduction target? Or would the move only make things worse?

Matthew Denholm

AGRICULTURENation

Farm cuts kicked down the country road

Agriculture and land management contribute almost 20 per cent of the nation’s annual greenhouse gas emissions but the Albanese government says reductions in the sector will largely have to wait.

Matthew Denholm

ExchangeEconomics

Fed mismatch on interest rates risks a Wall Street stock sell-off

Markets expect aggressive US interest rate cuts but Fed chairman Jerome Powell may deliver a more cautious message, risking a sharp correction in heavily overbought stocks.

David Rogers

ClimateAgribusiness

Farmers call for practical action on ‘sobering’ future

The agriculture industry warns Australia’s food security hangs in the balance after the release of the climate assessment.

Paul Garvey

Agribusiness

SunRice shines bright as it enters big league

SunRice CEO Paul Serra says the rice stalwart should not be ­equated to the commoditised starchy cereal grain that feeds our near neighbours.

Tim Boreham

communityNation

Rural lawyer helps flood-hit businesses free of charge

A small-town lawyer has been nominated for a Shine Award in recognition of her selfless contributions to a NSW community shattered by flash-flooding.

Jack Nivison

Trade threatNation

Australian beef could soon be hit with a 27 per cent Trump tariff

Australian beef could soon be hit with a 36 per cent tariff by the Trump administration under existing free-trade agreement rules on quotas.

Matthew Cranston

Transition victimsNation

Farmers with valid concerns treated as net-zero obstacles

Regional farmers hold genuine concerns about the renewables rollout – it’s time Chris Bowen listened to them.

Christine Middap

‘Whole valley abuzz’Nation

Cotton fever grips north amid ‘white gold’ boom

Vast tracts of the northern Kimberley are turning white as farmers adopt cotton as a lucrative new crop. Conservationists want to halt the boom, saying savanna is being bulldozed.

Matthew Denholm

CommentaryCompanies

Retailers can’t fight Victoria’s crime wave on their own

The more retail bosses call out the once-taboo topic of crime, the better. Now the institutional response has to be swift to tackle the growing problem.

Eric Johnston

EXCLUSIVENation

Farmers hit back at bosses’ plan to scrap customs card

A business group chief says incoming passengers to Australia should not have to fill in the familiar customs card, but farmers are concerned about biosecurity disagree.

Ewin Hannan

Bush SummitNation

Farmers under net zero siege, ‘Climategate’ still to come: Rinehart

Gina Rinehart says it is heartbreaking that farmers are bearing the brunt of net zero ideology and already have enough to worry about without being tied to unrealistic Paris accord targets.

Brad Thompson

SKILLS SHORTAGESNation

Radical plan to force young workers to the regions

Industry leaders have proposed mandatory regional service for young Australians to address rural skills shortages.

Jenna Clarke and Julie-anne Sprague

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