$3 million to protect vineyards from smoke

A new $3 million project to reduce the impact of controlled burns and wildfires near wine regions was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce. The three-and-a-half-year project Mitigation of Climate Change Impacts on the National Wine Industry by Reduction in Losses from Controlled Burns and Wildfires and Improvement in Public Land Management is a collaborative project between Wine Australia and the Australian Wine Research Institute, Agriculture Victoria and LaTrobe University.