Queensland Country Hour

The head of Australia’s first National Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) John Bradley says the agency will focus its efforts on deliberate breaches of new land clearing rules, not farmers trying to do the right thing. 

Bradley and Anne-Marie Pike nearly lost it all in 2018. Instead of dwelling on what was gone, the family used the bushfire that threatened their home and farm as a catalyst to change. 

After studying the phenomenon for decades, Dr Stone says in the past the moderate El Ninos have wreaked the most havoc on eastern Australia. He explains why the strength of the event is not a good predictor of the severity. 

In the late 1990s Matthew Peart's Carnarvon Range property, about 600 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, was gripped by pasture rundown.

In sheds and on dashboards across the country, old hats sit quietly, holding decades of memories.

Global investment firms backed by some of the biggest companies in the world  are pouring money into macadamia orchards in the Bundaberg region, including one expected to become one of the world's largest.

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