23.03.2012 | permalink
SAFETY concerns about genetically modified foods have become a state election issue with an anti-GM campaigner announcing she will challenge Food and Agriculture Minister Terry Redman in the Warren-Blackwood electorate. Julie Newman, who has a farm near Margaret River and was a member of a parliamentary advisory committee under former Labor Food and Agriculture Minister Kim Chance, has said she will stand as an independent candidate against Mr Redman next year.