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Great Barrier Reef health check gets A+

Blaming destruction of the reef on farmers, sediment, pesticides and nutrients is “bloody unfair”.

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30th Sept. 2020 6:09 AM

Dr Peter Ridd outside Parliament House in Canberra.

Puppy’s heart-wrenching graveside vigil after deaths

This is the heart-wrenching moment a puppy refused to leave the grave of two older dogs who died agonising deaths. WARNING:...

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10th Sept. 2020 9:09 AM

Are you up-to-date on the use of pesticides?

PESTICIDE users must do a short refresher course every five years.

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08th Aug. 2017 4:08 PM

Pesticide misuse is taken very seriously by the EPA.

Could Canberra jobs come to our regional city?

More Commonwealth jobs will be moved from Canberra to regional centres despite the Federal Government’s ongoing troubles...

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09th May 2017 8:05 PM

The Federal Budget 2017

Widow's warning: my husband died after chemical spraying

THE wife of a Suffolk Park man who died of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma has warned other Northern Rivers’ residents against the...

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09th June 2015 6:06 AM

WARNING: Virginia Black, of Suffolk Park, is cautioning people about the potential dangers of pesticides after her husband James died of non Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Pesticides thought to be destroying bee populations

OPINION: Bees are invaluable pollinators and essential to global food production.

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24th Sept. 2014 11:09 AM

Honey bee populations are decreasing all around the world, making their honey and by-products harder and harder to come by in some countries.