The week’s top stories (week ending 06/11/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:Green grape in latest needle tamper case
- Adelaide chosen to host 2023 World Potato Congress (Fresh Plaza)
- National Farmers’ Federation Farm Data Working Group out to protect farm data (Sharon O’Keeffe, Queensland Country Life)
- Holiday workers may receive hundreds of millions of dollars after backpacker tax overturned by Federal Court (Clint Jasper, Kath Sullivan and Nassim Khadem, ABC News)
- Backpacker tax a form of ‘discrimination based on nationality’, court rules (Ben Butler and Paul Karp, The Guardian)
- Central west Queensland rain brings joy to drought-stricken property owners (Adam Morton and Katherine Murphy, The Guardian)
- Horticulture calls to scrap backpacker tax after court ruling (Mike Foley, The Land)
- ‘Sea asparagus’ shows commercial bush food potential for salty inland farmland (Olivia Garnett, ABC Great Southern)
- Have your say on $100m annual drought investment (Mike Foley and Andrew Marshall, Queensland Country Life)
- Tomato’s original colour was orange and now it’s making a superfood comeback (Eden Hynninen, ABC Tasmanian Country Hour)
- Rural towns wait anxiously for a boost, as drought’s grip on rural economies spreads (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Exit packages might help some farmers, but history shows the take-up is slim (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- $200 melons? How Japan’s high-end fruit reveals our attitudes to agriculture (Adam Liaw, The Guardian)