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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 22 October 2025, cold fronts and low-pressure troughs brought rainfall to parts of northern, eastern and southern Australia.Rainfall was highly variable across winter cropping regions, while parts of Queensland,…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 31 January 2024 there were storms and heavy rainfall across Queensland and northern areas of Northern Territory and Western Australia. South Australia and much of southern Western Australia were generally dry.Over…
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We take mental health, wellbeing and suicide in rural and regional Australia seriously. We recognise that people living and working on farms are subject to economic, climatic and social pressures. These pressures can affect their wellbeing, particularly during times of drought.We fund local…
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This working paper has since been published as a journal article. Please now refer to:
Hughes, N., M. Lu, W. Soh, K. Lawson (2022) Modelling the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms, Climatic Change
ABARES Working Paper
Published 29…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 27 March 2025 monsoon lows and low-pressure systems brought intense rainfall to the north and east of Australia.Large areas of western Queensland recorded rainfall totals of between 100-400 millimetres. While this…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 30 October 2024, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to western, northern, and eastern areas of Australia.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between 10 and 100 millimetres were recorded in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 8 November 2023, troughs brought widespread showers and storms in Queensland and New South Wales, and in country’s northwest. The remainder of the country remained dry.
While welcomed, the rainfall…
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The Agricultural Workforce Working Group (the Working Group) met for the sixth time on 2 May 2023. The key focus areas for this meeting were:
the role of migration in meeting the workforce needs of agriculture and processing sectors; and
the housing needs of regional Australia,…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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In the week ending 28 February 2024, ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln generated heavy rainfall in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. South-western parts of Western Australia also benefitted from the heavy rainfall, after being…
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The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) has received advice from the United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) outlining that the following requirements…
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