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- To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
- The Year of the Outback is a calendar of events highlighting who and what's in the outback, but it also aims to encourage Australians to celebrate it and think about what the outback means to the country's future. One event held in Blackall near Longreach late last month aimed to draw urban Australia's attention to the agricultural produce from western Queensland. It also alerted outback producers to the opportunities to brand and value-add their produce, whether it be honey, dates, crayfish, figs, beef or mutton.
- The Australian show jumping championships is held in a different state every year. Usually it goes goes to a royal show, but this year it went to a small rural show in Queensland. It's the second time in five years that Gympie has snared the prestigious event, with the country's top riders giving it a big tick.
- Japan's organic food market is expected to be worth between $30 and $40 billion by 2010.
- A group of militant farmers is attempting a coup in northern Victoria. The rebels are pitting their forces against their local Council over the issue of rates. The rural ratepayers of the Gannawarra Shire want immediate reform of the current rating system which they've decried as 'unjust'. After a two long battle and the failure of repeated mediation talks, this week the conflict goes before the Victorian Supreme Court. It's a court case which could have significant implications for rural shires across Australia.
- When it comes to lamb Australians eat more than just about any other nationality. Only New Zealanders beat us in the lamb stakes. We consume around 13 kilograms per person per year and almost 60 per cent of households buy fresh lamb. But with the ever increasing price of prime lamb, butchers need to make each cut go further.
- Three months ago all hell broke loose in Australia's key scientific establishments. A virus believed to be fatal to wheat had been found in CSIRO glasshouses. Tens of thousands of plants were destroyed. The grains council claimed the virus could put a $200 million dent in the national grain income. But last month, the Agriculture Minister announced an about-face on the status of the virus, saying it was not such a problem after all. Mr Truss claimed the virus was probably endemic across much of the wheat belt, with no real impact. And farmers could go back to business as usual. What on earth happened in between?