At least $9 billion of Australian taxpayers' money goes to fossil fuel company handouts every year. The coal industry even gets a $300 million discount on diesel fuel. It's a legacy of the Howard government that Kevin Rudd can ditch in the May federal budget.
Two days after the NSW government announced it would join Victoria in commercially growing genetically engineered (GE) crops, Greenpeace activists enter a GE canola field trial in Victoria and unfurl a banner saying “GE CANOLA KNOWS NO BORDERS”.
A new movie has dealt another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest global chemical companies and the provider of seed technology for 90% of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops.
