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:
- Certainty over seasonal workers now imperative, say growers (The Land)
- Wild winds wreak havoc on SA greenhouses (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Workers are needed for harvest, but how do you find a job and what’s it like? (ABC News)
- ‘I’m not as exploitable as a foreigner’: Lukus is young and fit, but no farm will give him a go (The New Daily)
- Mango prices up, but farmers struggle to find workers to pick them (ABC News)
- Federal Government rules out illegal worker amnesty (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Backpacker, seasonal worker visas likely to be extended again to tackle worker shortage (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- CEOs push Andrews to reopen faster (Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Worker shortage to cripple horticulture (MSN Australia)
- Australia should create ‘Pacific visa’ to reduce impact of climate change and disaster on islanders (The Guardian)
- Damian Drum calls on Scott Morrison to target Taiwanese fruit pickers (The Australian)