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:
- Victorian farmers may have to pay $8000 for seasonal workers under quarantine plan (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- International workers touch down as Queensland scrambles to stop the rot (ABC News)
- Adjusting to COVID labour shortages at Cowra (The Land)
- Seasonal workers quarantine program ignoring local unemployment problem (NTnews.com.au)
- ‘A rip-off rort’: More calls to clean up fruit picking as locals struggle to land farm jobs (The New Daily)
- Farmers lead call for backpackers to return to Australia (7NEWS.com.au)
- Former ag minister among Hort Innovation board nominees (Queensland Country Life)
- 2,000 Tasmanian harvest jobs ripe for the picking (The Mercury)
- EU’s attempts to dictate Australian regulations must be resisted (The National Tribune)
- How to grow mushrooms: Australia’s best farmers (The Courier Mail)
- NFF appeals to Federal Government to bring back backpackers, Working Holiday Maker program (MSN Australia)
- Damian Drum calls on Scott Morrison to target Taiwanese fruit pickers (The Australian)
- Australia should create ‘Pacific visa’ to reduce impact of climate change and disaster on islanders (The Guardian)
- First flights take NT mangoes to key overseas markets (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Growers plead for fresh ideas as $150k worth of food ploughed into mulch (ABC News)
- Australia’s farm industry hit hard by COVID-19 but high school graduates are filling vacant positions for their rural gap year (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- UK farmers to need ‘thousands of foreign workers’ (MSN Australia)
- Industry questions overseas staff plan (Farm Weekly)