7 September 2022
IPA Research: Red And Green Tape is Strangling Australia’s Farming Future
“Each year there are more city-based bureaucrats with clipboards telling farmers what they can and can’t do, than there are actual farmers. Red and green tape is strangling Australia’s farming future,” says Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. In a keynote address today at the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australia in Perth, Daniel
21 May 2018
Farmers Know Best How To Care For Land On Which They Depend
Australian farmers are under unprecedented attack by environmental groups and left-leaning political parties. It’s time government ministers put the gloves on and jumped into the ring. On this page last week, Lyndon Schneiders, national director of the Wilderness Society, argued that land-clearing by farmers is a “key threat” to the environment and more must be done to counteract it. In
12 April 2018
Three Steps To Reducing Red Tape For Farmers
Red tape is destroying farming communities, yet the best the Turnbull government can do is launch another review. At end of March, the government announced it would undertake a review into the red tape imposed on farmers by federal environmental regulation. But this review, like most others, will end up providing a massive pay day for the bureaucrats who run
