More water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin will be purchased from farmers and irrigators in a renewed push by the federal government to return 450 gigalitres of water to the environment.
A WA pastoralist says he will not stand in the way of the bullets aimed at the donkeys on his remote property, but he will not kill the animals he says have had a positive environmental impact.
Pacific governments have consistently raised concerns over the problem of labour shortages caused by the seasonal workers scheme in Australia and New Zealand.
