Murray Goulburn cops $650,000 fine over disclosure failures
The Federal Court has ordered Murray Goulburn to pay a $650,000 fine plus ASIC's legal costs over the embattled dairy giant's disclosure failures ahead of last year's profit downgrade. The Australian...
View ArticlePinecrest in Central Victoria with $3 million hopes
Pinecrest in Bright in Central Victoria has been listed with buyer interest tipped at around $3 million. Pinecrest on Toorak Road is considered the gem of the town's premier residential properties,...
View ArticleCanada's Public Sector Pension Investment expands its Australian rural footprint
Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) has added to its Australian farming operations, buying the NSW cropping assets of mining and agribusiness giant, Glencore via its...
View ArticleOffmarket rural FIRB sales banned by Treasurer Scott Morrison
The federal government has imposed tighter foreign investment restrictions on the off-market sale of agricultural land worth $15 million or more. Treasurer Scott Morrison announced any rural vendor...
View ArticleFarmers and services industry the winners under the revised TPP deal:...
GUEST OBSERVER The revived trade agreement, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has finally made it across the line. It’s a considerable win...
View ArticleKahlbetzer's Twynam selling three farms - but not off market
The Kahlbetzer's Twynam Agricultural Group has publicly listed three of its Lachlan River frontage properties for sale by expression of interest campaign closing March 12. The properties, which...
View ArticleFormer solicitor-general of Australia David Bennett buys Berry weekender
The former solicitor-general of Australia, David Bennett QC, and his wife Angela, a former judge of the Federal Court, have bought a weekender on the NSW south coast. The Woollahra-based couple have...
View ArticleMandalay trophy home in Exeter listed with $11 million hopes
Mandalay, a 77 hectare estate in Exeter in the NSW Southern Highlands, has been listed for sale. Its comes with a guide of $10 million to $11 million. It's been listed by investment banker Chris...
View ArticleStates' dummy-spit over Murray-darling Basin Plan
Given the outraged reaction from some state water ministers to the disallowance of an amendment to the Murray Darling Basin Plan, you would be forgiven for thinking that a heinous crime had been...
View ArticleFashion designer Collette Dinnigan sells Milton farmstay
International fashion designer Collette Dinnigan and husband, the hotel and tourism entrepreneur, Bradley Cocks, have sold one of their money-spinning Milton farmstays. The NSW South Coast property had...
View ArticleMildura rural market to remain bouyant in 2018
It is hard to see any reasons for the current buoyant Mildura rural property market not to continue throughout 2018, according to HTW valuer Graeme Whyte. "The current property cycle is remarkable for...
View ArticleSupport from banks for Panama disease affected banana growers
Banana growers in north Queensland affected by Panama disease are encouraged to contact their bank to access a range of hardship measures on offer. Australian Banking Association CEO Anna Bligh said...
View ArticleKevin Sobels lists Hunter Valley winery
Kevin Sobels, the legendary Australian winemaker, and wife, Margaret are selling their Hunter Valley winery, as they look towards retiring. They hope to be staying around Pokolbin. Sobels is a fifth...
View ArticleFar west NSW rural prices matching tablelands country: HTW
The general market in southern and western New South Wales continues to show strengthening signs, according to the latest HTW report. "Generally we have seen the level of sales activity drop slightly,...
View ArticleTerra Firma's $1 billion CPC cattle kingdom offering
The $1 billion offering of one of Australia’s biggest agricultural empires, with 16 northern cattle stations, has begun. The vast offering, which includes a herd of 400,000 cattle, is the Consolidated...
View ArticleRestoration of historic Macquarie farm at Bathurst
Macquarie, the oldest farm and oldest continuing residence west of the Great Divide, is set for an open day after its recent restoration. The 1820s convict barracks and the homestead, built a few years...
View ArticleRosehill Farm, Kangaloon sold by Rose Deo
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is whispered to have secured a very grand Southern Highlands country estate. The Atlassian founder is tipped to emerge as the $5.35 million buyer of Rosehill Farm,...
View ArticleHistoric Cogoon Station listed on Darling Downs
Cogoon Station, the south west Queensland grazing property, has been listed for sale. It is the district from where the Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt set off from on his fateful...
View ArticleBalnarring two hectare retreat sells at $1.91 million
A rural estate in Balnarring, a small hamlet on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, sold recently for $1.91 million. The two hectare green wedge zoned property features an architect designed timber...
View ArticleDean Shannon sells Guanaba equestrian estate
Former Ladbrokes CEO Dean Shannon has sold a Queensland equestrian properties. The four hectare Guanaba estate on the banks of the Coomera River in the Gold Coast hinterland had a $1.9 million asking...
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