The week’s top stories (week ending 19/11/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Hort Connections 2020 opens registration and announces Janine Allis as headliner (Fresh Plaza)
- Sniffer dog Suki finds pork and other biosecurity risks during first month on the job in Darwin (Matt Brann, ABC Rural)
- DFAT bureaucrat stood down pending investigation into links with animal activist websites (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- TropAg conference discusses latest measures to combat food sabotage (Sally Cripps, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Putting research into practice (The Land)
- Australian federal authorities probing alleged exploitation of Fijian villagers on Victorian farms (Leonie Thorne and Prianka Srinivasan, ABC Pacific)
- Farmers reeling in aftermath of the most terrifying firestorm they’ve witnessed (Kim Honan and Lara Webster, ABC NSW Country Hour)
- Animal activist group that publishes farm details for protests has charity status revoked (Sarah Martin, The Guardian)
- Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission strips Aussie Farms of charity status (Paul Johnson, ABC News)
- SA Government defends heavy handed zero tolerance approach to fruit fly (ABC Radio Adelaide)