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:
- Is it time to look at bringing backpackers back? (Fraser Coast Chronicle)
- Vaccination warning as Nats’ push for illegal worker amnesty rejected (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- ‘It’s good work, it’s good pay’: Young folk urged to ease farm labour shortage (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- New campaign encourages Australians to gap year in their own backyard (North Queensland Register)
- Europe moves again to ‘protect’ its home-grown food (Stock Journal)
- Farmers fear for land that produces some of ‘best potato crops in the world’ (ABC News)
- Hort Connections sponsorship helps secure event’s place (North Queensland Register)
- Imported products in seed kits not a biosecurity risk — Woolworths (Weekly Times Now)
- Crop losses felt in the mind also | EDITORIAL (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- TFGA welcomes John McKew into chief executive role (The Advocate)