Rebecca Keenan
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The World Wants More Camel Milk. Australia Can Help
Demand is growing in the U.S. and Asia as camel milk’s purported health benefits attract new drinkers. → Read More
The World Wants More Camel Milk. Australia Can Help
Australia can fill that gap because it’s home to the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, said Steingiesser, who joined Good Earth Dairy as chief executive officer in 2016, without ever having tasted the slightly salty milk that camels produce. Now he drinks it regularly. → Read More
Qantas Sets Aviation Milestone as Perth Flight Lands in London
Qantas Airways Ltd. started direct flights between Australia and London this weekend, passing a major milestone by reducing to 17 hours a trip that once took 12 1/2 days. → Read More
Qantas Passes Aviation Milestone With Direct Perth-London Flight
Qantas Airways Ltd. is starting direct flights between Australia and London this weekend, passing a major milestone by reducing to 17 hours a trip that once took 12 1/2 days. → Read More
Short-Lived La Nina Fades Away as Pacific Ocean Warms Up
The shortest La Nina in almost a decade has ended, just three months after it began. → Read More
Australia Is Selling $280 Steaks to the Chinese
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart is boosting her cattle herd in the world’s third-biggest beef exporter to serve up more premium steak to discerning customers in China. → Read More
The U.S. Can’t Get Enough of Australia’s Goats
Growing demand for goat meat in the U.S. from ethnic minority groups and foodies has made an unlikely export superstar for Australian farmers, with exports surging to a record. → Read More
Knitted Sneakers Are Kicking Wool Prices to Record Highs
New uses for wool in sneakers such as Adidas AG’s marquee Ultra Boost helped drive prices to a record. They’ll only climb further this year, according to growers in the world’s biggest producer. → Read More
Global Warming: Australia Will Just Keep Getting Hotter Until 2050
Temperatures in Australia are set to rise until around 2050 due to greenhouse gas emissions already in the atmosphere, according to the country’s weather bureau. → Read More
Warning: Australia Will Just Keep Getting Hotter Until 2050
2017 was Australia’s third-hottest year on record. → Read More
La Nina Pattern Forms in Tropical Pacific Ocean, Australia Says
A weak La Nina weather pattern has formed in the Pacific Ocean, Australia’s weather bureau declared, and the event may bring wet weather to cropping and coal mining regions. → Read More
La Nina Pattern Forms in Tropical Pacific Ocean, Australia Says
A weak La Nina weather pattern has formed in the Pacific Ocean, Australia’s weather bureau declared, and the event may bring wet weather to cropping and coal mining regions in the nation. → Read More
La Nina Alert Issued by Australia as Weak, Short Event Forecast
Australia moved one step closer to declaring La Nina, issuing an alert for the event as the Pacific Ocean continues to cool. → Read More
Craft Beer Fans Give New Life to 100-Year-Old Barley
A batch of barley that lay forgotten for almost 100 years in storage at farm in Portland, Oregon, has found new life - thanks to booming demand for craft beer. → Read More
Select Says Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund Bid Undervalues Australia Almond Grower
The 44 percent premium that Abu Dhabi’s $125 billion sovereign wealth fund offered for Australia’s No. 2 almond grower Select Harvests Ltd. fails to value the target’s plans to boost production by more than 50 percent next year, according to Chief Executive Officer Paul Thompson. → Read More
Iron Ore's Kings Are Spending Again
The biggest iron ore producers in Australia are spending as much as $10 billion on mines so they can keep pumping out shipments to China as demand in their biggest customer shows little sign of easing. → Read More
Iron Ore's Kings Spend Again as China Just Can't Stop Buying
The biggest iron ore producers in Australia are spending as much as $10 billion on mines so they can keep pumping out shipments to China. → Read More
Iron Ore Market Is Facing Extreme Volatility for Couple of Years
Iron ore markets are heading for a very bumpy ride in the next couple of years, marked by significant price swings amid the restructuring of the steel industry in China, according to the developer of a planned $3.7 billion mine in Australia. → Read More
Iron Ore Market Faces Extreme Volatility for Couple of Years
Developer Iron Road sees transition in China’s steel industry. → Read More
Western Australia May Ask BHP, Rio to Cash Out Iron Ore Levy
Western Australia may ask Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd. to pay potentially billions of dollars to end a mining rent tax to help patch a budget decimated by lower commodity prices. → Read More