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:
- AUSVEG lauds labour program reforms, saying it will benefit workers and employers (Dynamic Business)
- ANZSCO update to Agricultural occupation groups (Mirage News)
- Ag labour crisis to ease as backpackers return (Stock and Land)
- Campaign to help Aussies ‘know your AUSVEG’ (Retail World Magazine)
- Ag-tech facility breaking new ground for horticulture (FreshPlaza)
- Why closing our borders to foreign workers could see fruit and vegetable prices spike (Business Daily Media)
- Controversial open-cut mine rejected as a ‘significant risk’ to Gippsland horticulture industry (ABC News)
- Victorian election 2022: What does regional Victoria want from Spring Street? (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- David Littleproud reveals full plan for Northern Australia development (Ntnews.com.au)
- ABARES says fruit and vegetable growers productive despite border closures reducing worker numbers (ABC News)
- Edith Cowan University set to launch WA’s only horticulture university major next year (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Aussie vegie production going gangbusters (MSN – Australia)
- Australian vegetable exports resilient, despite ongoing challenges (FreshPlaza)
- AusNet confirms controversial power line route through more than 200 Victorian properties (ABC News)
- The smart state for horticulture (North Queensland Register)
- More than 25 industry associations take aim at labour shortages (Dynamic Business)