Top 11 of '11 - The Year in Review
Duck season fires up
BLOOD on the face of a hunting protester became the image of Victoria's 2011 duck hunting season.
Boating regulations in spotlight
VICTORIA'S recreational boating industry battled to stay on course in 2011 in the face of a Government strategy to improve safety.
Murray Darling Basin plan: A water revolt
THE debate on sharing of Australia's most precious resource - water - fired up in 2011.
East coast weathers floods, cyclones
MOTHER Nature unleashed all her fury across the eastern coast of Australia early in 2011 to devastate communities, business and farms.
Live export trade blows
THE live export trade divided the country and saw the profile of animal rights activist Lyn White skyrocket.
Raising the bar on ATV safety
THE safety debate ranged from training users, uses for the machine, wearing helmets and installing anti-crash bars.
Bumper harvest lifts spirits
MOST grain growers are climate change sceptics but 2011 weather must be testing that scepticism.
Alpine grazing debate resurfaces
TREATING a national park like a farm or keeping a high country tradition alive?
Mice make 2011 their own
GRAIN farmers frustrated with the limited amount of mice bait on sale resorted to mixing their own chemicals to deal with a mice plague.
Supermarkets launch milk price war
COLES started a milk price war on Australia Day by dropping its homebrand milk to $1 a litre.
- Boating costs to soar
- Imported olive oil rip off
- ALP leadership challenge on cards
- Nhill locals scared after pet dog sliced
- The truth behind Indonesian ban
- Labelling fines for supermarkets
- RSPCA tactics dubious
- Duck hunter close to being blinded
- Runaway grain train smash at Narrandera
- Grazing plan under fire
- Flood death toll at 16
