15/05/2008 | New electronic eartags are being put under a fierce test in a century-old woolshed in western Victoria where some 4000 stud sheep at Nareeb Narreb, Glenthompson, have been tagged with the new National Livestock Identification Scheme electronic tags.

15/05/2008 | The Government will honour all existing Regional Partnerships contracts signed off by the previous government but will not proceed with any new contracts, this week's budget papers have revealed.

14/05/2008 | THE Queensland-based Coggan family is to take on the world. The plan is to trump the existing 24-hour planting world record when conditions are best-suited for the bold endeavour.

4:10 PM AEST | $235,607 pay-up demand to QLD

3:28 PM AEST | Aid trickling in to an estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by cyclone.