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:
- Local workers are taking up farm jobs as Queensland farmers are forced to pay higher wages (ABC News)
- Seasonal workers and building membership focus for Australian Workers Union in Riverina (Mirage News)
- Farmers await costs, conditions of Victorian seasonal worker scheme (Weekly Times) – subscription required
- Victorian and Tasmanian governments’ seasonal worker agreement slammed as ‘too late’ (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Government ’squabble’ on migrant workers hurting farmers (The Australian)
- FAO launches the UN’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 (North Queensland Register)
- Lobby group calls for even playing field on water prices (Townsville Bulletin)
- Are you noticing the changing prices of your fruit and vegetables week to week? (ABC News)
- Melbourne Polytechnic’s new beekeeper course aims to tackle national apiarist shortage (ABC News)
- The legacy of Cyclone Yasi: Why Queensland’s biggest storm left physical and psychological scars 10 years on (ABC News)