Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce tempers expectations that Australia can become the 'food bowl of Asia'.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss claims if the sale of GrainCorp proceeds international companies will control Australia's ports and handling facilities, and decisions will be made in foreign boardrooms.

Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce claims a move towards free-range egg production will lead to an increase in bird flu.

This could be the end of the Liberal Party as we know it, argues Geoffrey Barker in Inside Story. With the crisis that has unhinged the Liberal Party and doomed Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership we may be witnessing the end of the Menzies era in Australian politics. It now seems that Australia’s non-Labor political forces are...