Breadbasket News
From Breadbasket To Basket Case
Friday January 9, 2009
Two nights ago I made a salad for dinner entirely out of fresh produce from my garden. Gardening has become a new hobby, and this season's crop includes some amazing wild rocket, as well as capsicum, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic and basil.Intervention Call As Cholera Spreads
Monday December 8, 2008
WESTERN calls for radical intervention in Zimbabwe rose dramatically over the weekend as the United Nations warned that the number of cholera cases in the region could reach 60,000 and the death toll rise to 3000.Trivia
Monday November 24, 2008
1 A pistol and epee are part of which athletics event?
2 Who (pictured) is the captain of the New Zealand
cricket team?In Search Of Sanity After The Slaughter
Monday September 8, 2008
Rwanda is seeking to leave behind the bitterness brought about by the genocide of 1994, writes Russell Skelton.Mugabe Buffeted By Winds Of Change
Saturday March 29, 2008
Robert Mugabe may be facing the biggest threat to his rule for 28 years, writes John Paterson.The Immovable Object And Irresistible Force
Saturday March 29, 2008
Robert Mugabe may be facing the biggest threat to his rule for 28 years, writes John Paterson.Golden Fleece Of Ladakh
Sunday March 9, 2008
Maria Visconti meets the fascinating Chang-pa who make their living from our love of pashmina shawls.Place In Time
Thursday February 28, 2008
The Hawkesbury flows smoothly but it was far from peaceful the day a ship's crew mutineered, writes Peter FitzSimons.Creatures With Comforts
Saturday December 8, 2007
David Scott treks in splendid isolation on Maria Island, on three feasts a day.Skyrocketing Food Prices The Real Issue, Not Gm
Sunday December 2, 2007
SILLY me. I thought the big fuss about GM canola being approved was all about whether Australia would allow genetically modified plants into the region. It turns out they've been growing genetically modified cotton in NSW for the past five years.Nab Heads Into American Breadbasket
Friday November 30, 2007
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK is to challenge Rabobank for global leadership in the agricultural lending market after spending nearly $US800 million yesterday to accelerate its assault on the North American farm sector.Empty Skies, Empty Dreams
Saturday September 22, 2007
Early rains had raised hopes that this year farmers would finally win in their gamble with nature. Now, with grain crops failing, the pain only grows more and more acute.It's Berg To The Future On A New Hazard-filled Voyage
Thursday September 20, 2007
THE ICEBERG THAT SANK THE TITANIC, 8.30pm, ABC: In a first for television, a long-form documentary about an iceberg. Not just any berg but the one that put paid to the Titanic in 1912. The doco offers a useful entree to next Thursday's repeat screening of A Night To Remember (1958). But this is more than retrospective forensics despite the exact location and genesis of the massive ice slab being deduced. With global warming and melting glacial sheets spawning mega icebergs, navigational hazards ...Your Letters
Monday August 20, 2007
This week the letter judged the best, most succinct and interesting will win a double pass to a Knights game, courtesy of The Herald. The winner will be announced on Saturday on this page.From Breadbasket To Basket Case
Saturday July 28, 2007
Zimbabwe, once the darling of Africa, is in free fall. As Robert Mugabe decrees prices be halved, Geoff Simms reports on a regime on the brink.Italian Treasures
Tuesday June 26, 2007
Long live one of Sydney's oldest restaurants - and restaurateurs - with its venerable charms.
Beppi's
13/20Helpless, As A Dictator Lays Waste
Thursday April 5, 2007
For thousands of Zimbabwean exiles in Australia - black and white - it is excruciating to watch the tragedy unfolding in their homeland. The former Zimbabwean soldier Irvine Ndou, 30, whose nine-year-old daughter still lives there, can only watch in dismay from his new home in Perth, and write impassioned articles on his website ZimbabweDemocracy.org.Caught Between Two Worlds
Saturday January 6, 2007
The personal meets the political in Zimbabwe.
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
By Peter Godwin
Picador, 342pp, $32.95Costello Seeks Control Of Rivers, Water
Sunday December 24, 2006
CONTROL of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's agricultural breadbasket, would be handed to the Commonwealth under a reinvention of federalism being pushed by Treasurer Peter Costello.Vanishing Krill Threatens Antarctic Life
Monday November 8, 2004
Rapid climate warming is emptying the breadbasket of Antarctica, putting whales, seals and seabirds at risk of food shortages.