Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust. Myrtle rust, native to South America, was ...

Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague through certain plants. The disease affects plants of the Myrtaceae family, which ...

ANGUS STEWART: This fungus is the latest unwanted import to our shores and it could have far-reaching and devastating consequences. I've come to the New South Wales Central Coast to find out about ...

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Sept 15 (Reuters) - When government policies are driven by populist politics, it is almost certain to lead to poor outcomes and a low standard of debate, as shown by the current ...

Wheat grower concerns about the arrival of a new strain of stripe rust in Western Australian mace crops have been allayed with the return of negative test results. Stripe rust is not common in Western ...

Evans Lagudah receives funding from Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat Project managed by Cornell University, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Australia Sambasivam Periyannan does not work ...

Australia's T20 cricketers are refusing to blame their fortnight-long isolation for a first-up humbling by New Zealand. In game one of a five-match T20 series, Aaron Finch's side were skittled in ...

The 36th over was bowled by Glenn Maxwell. He hadn't bowled an over in an ODI since June 2016 - in the last nine ODIs, not one over. Before that period, Maxwell had never even missed nine games of ...