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Julie Collins

Posted inAgriculture, Awareness Events, Mental Health

NSW records highest farm deaths as safety campaign calls for cultural change

blankby RK CrosbyJuly 20, 2025July 22, 2025

New South Wales recorded more farm fatalities than any other state in 2024, with 19 lives lost, as part of a nationwide surge in on-farm deaths detailed in the 2025 Safer Farms Report released today.

Posted inAgriculture, Australia Votes 2025

Ag groups welcome food security plan

blankby RK CrosbyMarch 5, 2025March 6, 2025

Ag groups have welcomed the pledge from Labor that the government will develop a national food security strategy, Feeding Australia, to strengthen the country’s food system if re-elected.

Posted inAgriculture, Federal Politics

Watt gone, Collins returns to Ag in ministerial reshuffle

blankby RK CrosbyJuly 28, 2024

Julie Collins will return to the Agriculture portfolio as Murray Watt moves to Employment and Workplace Relations in a ministerial reshuffle announced this afternoon.

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