Media Releases

Yesterday, the Rice Marketing Amendment Bill 2024 passed through the NSW Government. The Bill amends the Rice Marketing Act 1983 to deregulate the NSW rice industry by 1 July 2025.

The Ricegrowers' Association (RGA) inducted three Honorary Councillors on Wednesday evening at the Rice Industry Awards Gala Dinner, the flagship event at 2024 Rice Connect in Moama.

Yesterday, the NSW Government announced it will introduce draft legislation to end statutory rice export marketing ('vesting') arrangements by 1 July 2025.

The Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia (RGA) together with Griffith City Council, Leeton Shire Council, the Irrigation Research and Extension Committee (IREC), and Murrumbidgee Irrigation (MI) encourage all farmers to seriously consider the impacts of their crop residue fires on their neighbors and the broader community.

The Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia (RGA) together with Griffith City Council, Leeton Shire Council, the Irrigation Research and Extension Committee (IREC), and Murrumbidgee Irrigation (MI) encourage all growers to seriously consider not burning stubble during Anzac Day and weekends this autumn...

Yesterday, the NSW Government released their response to the 2023 independent report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) on the NSW Rice Vesting Review.

Today, Basin communities were dealt an unfair blow by the Senators who supported the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023.

The ‘stitch-up deal’ announced this morning by Plibersek and Hanson-Young was a cheap political stunt, preempting the Parliamentary process.

Today, Leeton, Griffith, Deniliquin and surrounds rallied against the Government’s rewrite of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Their message was simple and clear, water buybacks hurt communities.

Most of the irrigation and agriculture representatives appearing before the Senate inquiry into the Federal Government’s Restoring Our Rivers Bill 2023 were met with hostility from the inquiry’s South Australian Senators.