A canola field: grain producers point to research showing the GM crop ban has cost SA canola growers $33 million. Supplied image

Opinion

Labor’s new political realignment: to the Greens

With moves to lift South Australia’s ban on genetically-modified crops looking doomed, Caroline Rhodes argues that Labor and the smaller parties are acting against both evidence and the state’s economic interests.

Opinion

We need to talk about GM and good food

The State Government’s move to lift the ban on GM crops across most of South Australia prompted the usual responses from those either for or against it. It’s now time for a broader, informed public debate about the social and economic ramifications of GM food in general, argues Rachel A. Ankeny.

News

State Govt moves to lift ban on GM crops

The State Government will seek to lift the state’s long-standing ban on genetically-modified crops beginning next year for much of South Australia, but Kangaroo Island will continue with the moratorium.

Reader contributions

Your views: on thirsty street trees, defence jobs and Julie Bishop

Today, a reader gets stuck into his council over dying street trees, more correspondence on the wisdom or otherwise of growing GM crops in South Australia, and disappointment at Julie Bishop’s resignation.

Notes on Adelaide

New challenger for Haese; "Pro-GM" prof to review ban; SA Health's media hustle

In today’s Notes on Adelaide, a third contender emerges for the Lord Mayorship, the State Government appoints an economist with established pro-genetically modified crop views to review the state’s ban, and we offer a sneak peek inside SA Health’s media handling of its own minister.