When farmers own 70 per cent of the company, a government decision that reduces their income is not going to go down too well.

You've got U.S. senators involved, you've got questions about how much the Australian government knew, and I think when it gets to those sorts of levels it spooks investors quite a bit.

astonished that a high public official would put the federal government at the service of a massive communications company.

What we are creating is a larger company without the legal proceedings for having one corporate entity... Any income accruing to any of the entities shall be paid to each respective company.

Should they lose all that in the absence of finding another market for that wheat, you'd expect earnings to be impacted.

Within the next few years we believe the gold price will surpass the all-time high of $US850 an ounce.