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:
- Migrant farm workers sent home despite new ASEAN ag visa announcement (ABC News)
- ‘No prospect of a spill’: Joyce downplays leadership tilt ahead of Nationals meeting (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- ‘It’s hard to see how any new visa will fix labour shortages crippling Territory farms right now’: Luke Gosling (Ntnews.com.au)
- Visa scheme to tackle farm labour crisis (News.com.au)
- New spotlight on need for more competition in farm machinery repairs (North Queensland Register)
- Farmers demand new visa after losing UK backpackers under trade deal (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- New visa ‘beginning of the end’ for Pacific workers (The Australian) – subscription required
- Will local labour be enough to fix worker shortages in outback Australia? (ABC News)
- Australia-UK FTA to change farm labour requirements (Fruitnet.com)
- No jail time for man that tried to import 2000 live plant bulbs (The West Australian)