Kellie - you are a lawyer and as you certainly know you can weasel and crook your way out of any agreement.
We have lots of land and certainly the ability to produce lots more food. So it gets hotter who says that it is going to be a bad thing for Australia? Scientists? Do not make me laugh they will just "research" for ever taking us to the last dollar but then as a lawyer you would know all about that.
The average Joe has firm opinions on the probity of lawyers and the ethics of "Science". Those two were the mugs who said the earth was flat and then the lawyers prosecuted the people who thought they were wrong.
We need a tax on Doomsday theories and the abolition of Fringe Benefits tax exemptions, that would sort you lot out!

Typical alarmist nonsense. If AGW were real it would improve crop yields.

As it is CO2 is plant food; if we are really concerned about the plants and crop yields we should all be working flat out to produce more CO2. In fact I think laws making it compulsory to produce a minimum amount of CO2 each day should be introduced.

Ms Tranter is obviously already doing her bit with her hyperventilating articles. Her CO2 footprint must be huge.

< Food security is an issue that must be carefully and comprehensively addressed by our government as a matter of critical forward planning. >

But of course, Kellie. You would think this would go without saying, but alas it just completely isn’t happening.

Not only is our government doing nothing of the sort, they are very strongly taking us in the opposite direction.

Very high immigration and hence continuous rapid population growth is the No 1 negative factor here.

I mean; how obvious is it that food security in Australia is of critical importance? And that the future prospects of greatly increasing food production are grim to say the least….. And yet our MAD government continues to rapidly increase the domestic demand for food!

‘MAD’ is a total understatement!!

We not only have a rapidly increasing demand for food, we have a rapidly increasing demand for export income from food.

The most critical thing that needs to happen is for or government to quickly steer us towards a stable population.

In other words; we need to address the demand side of the equation much more fervently than the supply side.

In order to do this, we need to somehow make government independent of big business, which constantly pushes for rapid population growth.

I think that Labor would be very happy to greatly reduce immigration and head towards a stable population if they could. And it would be a winner with the votership. But the real power base – big business – simply won’t let them do it. As for the Coalition - there's no sign of this most fundamental necessity at all!

We’re pretty well screwed if we continue on the current path of highly divergent demand and supply capability for food.

A timely article on our food security given yesterday's release of the latest IPCC report on climate change.
It will be interesting to see if the ostriches finally get their heads out of the sand because of growing hunger pains or getting their bums burned by an ever hotter sun.
Unfortunately for us, the sensible three point plan outlined in the last paragraph will prove incomprehensible to our government of camp followers. China is buying into our agricultural capability, while the Yanks are planning to tell us how to manage what we have left.
Perhaps not such a lucky country after all.

The Chinese irrigation project on the Ord is going to produce sugar, as is another large mooted irrigation project in Queensland. You'd think there would be some requirement to produce actual food. There is also scope to convert tobacco growing land to food production -such as 2 million hectares in China.

You are going to be screwed if you don't come to the conclusion that something is playing havoc with our weather patterns. CO2 is an obvious choice because it has never been so high, and that is without gigantic volcanic action. To blatantly disregard climate change hence forth is foolhardy and dangerous.