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Garden Pros Say These 7 Jobs Will Protect Your Plants from Winter Damage – But They Need to Be Done in December

Experts reveal the key overwintering jobs to do in December to protect your yard from the worst of winter

Homes & Gardens · Dec 17, 2025

Timber skyscrapers reach for record heights and sustainable Australian cities

Wooden towers up to 220 metres tall may soon dot the skylines of Perth and Sydney as a boom in timber construction reaches record-breaking heights.

ABC News · Aug 5, 2022

Foot-and-mouth disease workshop fills as questions linger over pet owners

A WA farmer is concerned information about foot-and-mouth disease seems to be focused on an outbreak in Australia rather than what is being done to stop it breaching the country's borders.

ABC News · Jul 20, 2022

WA craft brewer Boston Brewery creates wet hop beers to help sustain farms

WA craft brewers are experimenting with wet hop beers that can only be made using freshly harvested, local hops. It is helping revive WA hop farms after 40 years of stagnation in the state.

ABC News · May 15, 2022

Food trade mission aims to revive premium exports

The best of Aussie produce has been showcased in person to 17 international food and drink importers for the first time since 2020 after a long and reluctant switch to Zoom calls and emails.

ABC News · May 11, 2022

Potato farmers 'doing it for nothing' warn of mass exodus amid stagnant prices

Unlike most vegetables, potatoes are not traded on wholesale markets that rise and fall with supply and demand. There are fears growers will walk away as cost pressures make the staple crop unviable.

ABC News · May 5, 2022

Powerline fires wreak havoc but a renewable microgrid alternative is rolling out

After a spate of bushfires, WA's regional electrical network is replacing overhead lines in some fire-prone regions with off-grid solar and battery systems, or microgrids.

ABC News · Apr 20, 2022

Record fuel prices didn't make this farmer switch to an electric motorcycle, saving his lambs did

Every year, sheep farmer Ian Kelly worries about his lambs dying to miscarriage and mismothering. Checking the flock every day on a loud petrol motorcycle was not helping.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2022

Regional distilleries build on 'ferociously local' consumers, but are battling against liquor excise

Even with Russian vodka off the shelves and a booming local industry, Australian spirits "cannot compete" on price as the liquor excise hits $25 a bottle, distillers say.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2022

Plantation timber insurance unaffordable for growers after Black Summer fires

As insurance premiums skyrocket and insurers refuse coverage to fire-prone timber plantations, experts warn the consequences could be felt far beyond the forestry industry.

ABC News · Mar 21, 2022