Western Australia Country Hour
Bravo apples from Western Australia arrived in China over the weekend.
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Jun 2026
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Hosted by Belinda Varischetti, the presenter of the Western Australian Country Hour, the country's finest hour
Bravo apples from Western Australia arrived in China over the weekend.
Two small, remote islands off the Kimberley coast are going to be turned into sea and air hubs for offshore oil and gas, marine industries, security, defence and fuel storage.
Mining giant Rio Tinto says it will soon halt its hay production in northern WA, leaving pastoralists scrambling to find an alternative supplier.
Internal documents reveal government officials are privately warning about the risks of a growing reliance on Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink.
The Pastoralist and Graziers Association says agricultural innovation is being stymied in the Kimberley with the state government refusing to release any surface water for farm projects in the region.
Former state Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan is representing Victory Metals who want to establish Australia's largest heavy rare earth clay project in the Mid West.
The Haggerty family has decided to let robots milk their cows. It means their workers can focus on other aspects of the farming enterprise.
Beef exports to China are expected to ease rapidly as Australia fast approaches this year's quota which will trigger an additional 55 per cent tariff on beef imports.
A flapping drone disguised as a peregrine falcon is giving hope to strawberry growers, who are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fruit to rainbow lorikeets each year.
Leo Skliros grows mangoes in the Northern Territory and says the wage increase is "another nail in the coffin."
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