Power bills to soar for Victorians
The companies building Victoria’s transmission projects will recover the cost by passing the charges onto households and businesses. See the figures.
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Farmers to rally over rural land rights
Farmers, landholders and community groups will gather outside Parliament to express their anger at what is “an onerous and non-Australian way of doing things”.
‘As bad as it’s been in years’: How winter chill is cruelling farmers
A wretched run of freezing temperatures, icy winds and moisture-sapping frosts has hit battling graziers already on edge after an 18-month dry spell.
Victorian farm charged after worker death
A farming company will face court this month after a worker died in a fatal skid steer loader crush two years ago.
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Calls for rates to be put on hold
Farmers have put forward a case to the Victorian government, asking for drought-hit landholders to be spared from paying council rates for 12 months.
Farmers to lock out transmission companies, despite threat of fines
Landholders who face having their properties carved up by new transmission lines say they will lock out transmission companies, despite the Allan Government’s looming threat of $12,210 penalties
Who Owns Victoria’s farms: Biggest landholders revealed
Foreign and homegrown billionaires are gunning for a part of Victoria’s farmland. Who owns the biggest tracts of land? See the full list of 150-plus farms and their owners.
Historic Gippsland dairy sold for the first time in 135 years
A billionaire horse racing tycoon has snapped up a 449ha dairy farm, owned by one family for five generations, in an off-market deal. See the details.
Victoria to slash large-scale solar targets
The sun is setting on larger-scale solar developments, as VicGrid cuts its renewable energy targets. See the latest plans.
The real reason Victoria’s roads will continue to deteriorate
A shockingly low amount of road repairs will be carried out in Victoria this year, despite a record funding boost by the Allan government. Here’s why.
Drought task force announces new freight network, kangaroo control
New drought assistance plans have been revealed for southwest Victoria, while contractors say sourcing cereal hay is becoming “impossible”.
Picture gallery: Australia’s finest horse riders in action
Some of the best riders in the nation gathered for the Melbourne International Three Day Event. See our collection of the best photos from the weekend.
$4.4m illegal tobacco crop seized near Shepparton
Authorities have found and destroyed more than 20 tonnes of illicit tobacco in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley.
These farmers can’t access drought relief. They aren’t the only ones
New parents Michael Hawker and Maddy Campbell secured their dream when they bought into a dairy farm in Victoria’s southwest. They didn’t realise it meant they couldn’t access government drought assistance.
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