Observers have been telling Australians for a while we are too reliant of China, and now that has been vindicated.

The cost of healthy food is a cost that everybody pays somehow. All Australians need to bear the load of a healthy environment, because without it, we won't have a clean, green brand to sell - and that is a job for more than just farmers.

With the government's performance on coal seam gas and coronavirus restrictions that are now in place, and with the Department of Planning's recommendations not far off, 12 weeks is clearly an unreasonable period for a decision to be made.

NSW Farmers is pushing to have the new koala SEPP de-coupled from rural use land.