A key commitment in the Australian Dairy Plan is to boost the industry's collective marketing effort to champion dairying and dairy products.

Cattle property investment firm Packhorse Pastoral Company is moving ahead with plans to buy properties worth $1.5 billion across Australia in the next five years.

Australia will build nuclear-powered submarines as part of a landmark security pact.

Long-serving federal Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon will retire from parliament at the next election.

United States president Bill Clinton once said governments had to stop "treating food like it was a colour television set", because food is a commodity like no other.