The week’s top media stories
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- “This isn’t a narrow industry issue, this is a matter of food and national security” (Hortidaily)
- Want to earn up to $500 a day? Aussie farmers are hiring after COVID-19 leaves industry with fruit picking shortage (Nine Now Today)
- Bumper fruit harvest could go to waste with 26,000 workers locked out (9news)
- Coronavirus restrictions leave 26,000 fruit picking jobs unfilled (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Love among the paw paws: the budget promise that could work for some (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Ausveg tells Aussies to eat more vegetables (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Seasonal work faces historic stigma and challenge in Tasmania (Farm Online)
- Border closures spark complex problems for growers (The Advocate)
- Federal Government considers amnesty for illegal workers (ABC News)
- Report: 26,000 worker shortage cripples horticulture industry (Food Processing)
- Farmers need 26,000 workers that aren’t here this summer (ABC Rural)
- Farm labour shortage: New data flags worker shortage of 26,000 for horticulture sector (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Morrison promises backpackers and islanders can stay, incentives for welfare recipients (The Australian)
- Destroying spinach and sacrificing cabbages: The worker drought wasting Australia’s produce (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Casual labour shortage a sign of problems to come (The Australian – editorial)
- Young job seekers to get incentives to go work on farms (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Someone’s sons and daughters: Why one town rallied around backpackers during COVID-19 (ABC News)
- Far North growers face export woes | Daily Telegraph (The Daily Telegraph)
- Calls for national illegal worker amnesty as labour shortage crisis hits boiling point (ABC Tropical Queensland)