The Tasmanian government will place an immediate 12-month moratorium on offshore salmon farm expansion before it stops granting new leased areas in the state from January 1, 2023.

Regional communities encouraged to share their views on phone and internet coverage issues.

Announced last week, the $5.6b surplus was recorded for the 2020- 2021 financial year, with an estimated $2.8b surplus expected in 2021-22 and surpluses in each of the outyears.

Australia will build nuclear-powered submarines as part of a landmark security pact.

The Victorian Nationals leader is at pains to point out how the party differs from its federal body on climate change.

Long-serving federal Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon will retire from parliament at the next election.

"We are looking at putting that out to a panel of Aboriginal contractors."

United States president Bill Clinton once said governments had to stop "treating food like it was a colour television set", because food is a commodity like no other.

The policy decisions that have created the global green revolution have influenced a number of trends in the agriculture sector

The government agency responsible for planning North Queensland's water infrastructure will be moved from Canberra to regional Queensland.