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:
- BOM declares La Niña, increasing flood risk for third year in a row (ABC)
- Rural Woman of the Year fighting ‘crippling’ motherhood isolation (Queensland Country Life)
- Supermarket selling prices recover as vegetable crops get better (Archynetys)
- More equitable compensation deal for electricity towers may be in the wind (Stock & Land)
- Fair Work Ombudsman continues farm inspections (Mirage News)
- Victorian farmers blitzing surplus vegetable waste (Waste Management Review)
- From visas to jobs: Australia’s migrant intake is increasing. Here’s what it means for workers (SBS)
- Eradication of bee varroa mite ‘very achievable’, Senate told (The New Daily)
- Skills crisis can be solved with training and good faith bargaining (Brisbane Times)