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Record wood product exports worth $3.4 billion and a record log harvest of 33 million cubic metres valued at $2.5 billion were the highlights of a great year for Australia’s forestry sector in 2016-17.

Students and staff at King’s Baptist Grammar School in South Australia will have full use of Friendship House, a new two storey building for the Junior Primary School which houses nine general learning areas, a visual arts area, a computing area, a music room and administration area thanks to funding from the Turnbull Government.

Leaders in Australia's fisheries and forestry industries are set to benefit from the much-anticipated launch of the Turnbull Government's $5 million Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund.

Australia's horticulture sector has taken a huge step forward in innovation with the opening today of the nation's first state-of-the-art vegetable glasshouse-production research centre at the Western Sydney University.

Legislation improving the capacity for recreational and Indigenous fishers to have greater input on the management of Commonwealth fisheries passed Parliament last week, fulfilling another key 2016 election commitment to the sector by the Turnbull Government.

Legislation enacted today will help deliver an ambitious $50 million, three-year plan to increase the value of wine exports up to $2.8–2.9 billion and bring $170 million worth of wine tourism to regional communities.

Australia and China have agreed to new horticulture market access priorities that will allow future exports of Australian blueberries to China.

This Sunday is National Gone Fishing Day and there is no better time to cast a line with friends and family or get out and enjoy the warmer weather in quiet solitude.

Over $1 million has been provided by the Australian Government to improve Adelaide Hills and Mount Barker roads.

Australia's illegal logging laws are being improved to reduce compliance costs for timber importers and processors.