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:
- Vanuatu farm workers finally touch down in WA (The West Australian) – subscription required
- VFF welcomes $195 million Murray Basin rail bailout (Sunraysia Daily)
- ‘Go hard, go early’: NSW Premier faces tough call ahead of Christmas (Australian Financial Review) – subscription required
- Ripe for reform: pandemic crisis exposes fault lines in Australia’s fruit industry (The Guardian)
- Urgency required to turn First Ministers’ statements into workers on farms (Mirage News)
- Sheep producers, horticulturalists hit hardest by labor shortages (Stock & Land)
- Push for ‘ag visa’ to ease work shortages (Food Processing)
- Farmers look to retain piece rate work despite union push for minimum award wages (The New Daily)
- Quarantine rules ploughing harvest hopes (Gippsland Times)
- High tech horticulture heading to urban areas (North Queensland Register)
- Peak Body Berries Australia and Member for Coffs Harbour Call for Labour Hire Licensing Scheme (News of The Area)
- Balonne growers call to solve seasonal worker housing shortage (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Fresh food supply chains inherently weak, ACCC report says (Riverine Herald)
- More than 90 per cent of Victorian ag jobs unfilled as labour shortage bites (The Weekly Times) – subscription required