The week’s top stories (week ending 16/07/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Calls mount for a Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (Patricia Karvelas, ABC Radio National)
- Florists call for ACCC investigation into ‘misleading’ advertisements by national firms (Laura Birch, ABC South West WA)
- ‘Chicken-free chicken’ isn’t chicken — and it ain’t cricket (Ed Gannon, The Weekly Times)
- Country towns close to reaching ‘day zero’, as water supplies dry up in the drought (Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
- Irrigators reject claims that taxpayer-funded water-saving scheme is not audited (Melinda Hayter & Sally Bryant, ABC News)
- Country Press Australia and Deakin University study into regional news decline (Eliza Beck, ABC News)
- Can blockchain open up global agricultural markets (Campbel Cooney, The Land)
- Popping prosecco’s bubble (Brett Worthington, ABC News)