My heart is in the bush. Views expressed are my personal thoughts.
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Marie Vitelli retweeted
Our cattle producers are under attack because NGOs are falsely misusing the terms forest & deforestation on agricultural land. Instead of doing what they should & suing them for defamation, @meatlivestock & their ABSF produce an epic fail & misuse the term themselves 🙄🤯
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Important story on the @smh front page today:
A fire ant invasion will be worse than cane toads.
And 13 July is D-day, when @MurrayWatt & state Ag Ministers must decide: will they commit to eradication or give up?
@MarkFurnerMP @TaraMoriarty @GayleTierney
smh.com.au/environment/conse…
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Just did this 😳😳😳. Northern Australian beef industry is crazily disadvantaged if some of these get up! Why is it that we choose not to report on SDGs where we are global leaders (water scarcity / labour / woodland grazing) & then come up with a raft of immeasurables.
Attention #beef producers of Australia:
Do this bloody survey. It’s incredibly important that producers are aware of & give their feedback on the @BeefFramework goals.
It will take 20mins or so. Don’t complain & just do it (please).
surveymonkey.com/r/beefgoals
Marie Vitelli retweeted
This graphic by @QldGov shows what happens when coal seams are 'dewatered' to get gas out of ground through #CSG wells & why farmers & others reliant on groundwater for houses, livestock & irrigation are all so concerned about simplistic #OGIA modelling #groundwater #subsidence
Marie Vitelli retweeted
So you want Australian taxpayers to pay for Shell - Petro China’s Arrow Enery gas pipeline when you have fined Arrow $1million for breaking the law and your Govt is still investigating it? Independent inquiry needed now #auspol
Marie Vitelli retweeted
There is one problem after another with Arrow Energy having safety failures with gas infrastructure and compliance breaches. The safety risk to person and property has never been fully disclosed to those of us forced to live and work in CSG mining zones.
A Western Downs farmer has slammed Arrow Energy over an alleged gas pipeline explosion in Nandi, saying it's only a matter of time before someone is killed. 7NEWS.com.au @risa_utama #7NEWS
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Want to write for Australia's oldest rural weekly? Love the bush and sharing a good yarn?
We are seeking a new journalist to join the North Queensland Register. seek.com.au/job/59247214?fbc… – at Emerald, Queensland
Marie Vitelli retweeted
We’re piloting the release of a fungus to help farmers tackle the weed flaxleaf fleabane. ✅
Our research with @AgriFuturesAU and @theGRDC found the fungus only infects the weed, leaving non-target species alone. csiro.au/en/news/News-releas…
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Any price we pay today to keep Foot and Mouth Disease off our shores will look cheap in the months and years ahead if we have to manage FMD in Oz - 7day quarantine for travel or stop flights until we are confident we have a plan that works @meatlivestock @redmeatcouncil @DAFFgov
Efforts are being stepped up to prevent foot and mouth disease from entering Australia.
There are fears the disease could devastate our livestock industry and take meat off the table. @eddy_meyer @cokeefe9 #9News
Marie Vitelli retweeted
This is Poppy, our pet sheep. Explain to me how I tell our kids poppy and all the other sheep and cattle here on the farm would be slaughtered if #FMD comes into Australia and then into our region. Stories like this could shake our metro cousins into caring about this huge risk
Marie Vitelli retweeted
We desperately need someone to feed our awesome crew! If you or someone you know want a rewarding position, food, accommodation & a great salary package in a beautiful cattle station village talk to [email protected]
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Have you seen this grass? You could help researchers decide if African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) is a suitable candidate species for biocontrol in Australia by completing this survey: bit.ly/3sa9TPK
Marie Vitelli retweeted
This must be a bad joke or simply a nightmare... let the CSG industry run rampant for over 10 years with no idea what to do with 6 million tonnes of waste salt. @AnnastaciaMP @ScottStewartMP
@GasFieldsCommQ where is the good policy in that? 7news.com.au/politics/qld-co…
Marie Vitelli retweeted
Gas has become the simple solution to complex problems. @southey70 and I travelled more than 4000km through QLD’s gas country and found divided towns, broken promises, sinkholes, cleared forests and towns in hope of real investment. @theage @smh theage.com.au/interactive/20…
Marie Vitelli retweeted
The @AnnastaciaMP Government will bank all the fine while @ScottStewartMP has ignored the victims by not requiring @Shell #ArrowEnergy to actually do anything - allowing them to continue on self-assessing #NotGoodEnough #NotCoexisting @GasFieldsCommQ @the_professor56
Arrow Energy has copped a $1 million fine for the illegal drilling of gas in the Western Downs. But farmers whose livelihoods have been ravaged say the action is pathetic because the damage has already been done. 7NEWS.com.au @DallyWatkinsC #7NEWS
Marie Vitelli retweeted
“If we got lumpy skin disease in this country, you would lose your [live] export markets overnight and that would devastate the Northern Territory” said @D_LittleproudMP today in #Darwin abc.net.au/news/2022-03-23/l… @CRC_NA @BowenLuke @TraceyHayesNT @ABCRural
Marie Vitelli retweeted
That's over 39 million agvet containers that have been collected and recycled through the #drumMUSTER #recycling program. Well done to the manufacturers, councils, community groups and farmers and growers that have made this possible ♻👍👩🌾 #GlobalRecyclingDay
To mark #GlobalRecyclingDay @drum_MUSTER has recycled 43,000 tonnes of plastic since its first collection of chemical containers in 1999.
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