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:
- National Farmers Federation slam union claims piece rates ‘rip off’ fruit pickers (The West Australian)
- Western Victoria Transmission Network Project: Opponents look to future plans as consultation groups unravel (The Courier)
- Labour hire workers: VFF concerned over new workplace safety laws (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Resistance to fall armyworm defence drops (Farm Weekly)
- Our First World wages eroded by imported workers (The Australian)
- Queensland’s strawberry industry reacts to needle contamination charges being dropped (ABC News)
- Grants to support Vic harvest workforce (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Focus on skills gap in TAFE review, says VFF (Stock and Land)
- Farmer fury over proposed blanket glyphosate ban (The Land)
- COVID test every two days for some truck drivers crossing the Victoria–SA border (ABC News)
- Dutch honey bees resistant to varroa mite imported to Australia to help guard against the pest (ABC News)