The week’s top stories (week ending 04/06/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Biosecurity key as Bridget McKenzie takes reins as ag minister (Lucy Knight, The Weekly Times)
- Labor leader Anthony Albanese announces frontbench in wake of federal election 2019 (Eliza Laschon, ABC News)
- ‘It’s well overdue’ – Ag’s heavy weights commit to better gender balance (Queensland Country Life)
- Hungry Jack’s, CSIRO to develop a new plant-based meat alternative (Nicola Bell, The Weekly Times)
- Giant African snails: A biosecurity threat too big to ignore for Australian agriculture (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- Mum’s shock over redback in supermarket broccoli (John Rolfe, The Whitsunday Times)
- Unhealthy products are gaming flawed health star food rating, study finds (Lisa Martin, The Guardian)