The week’s top stories (week ending 21/05/19)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Election 2019: Scott Morrison says ‘I have always believed in miracles’ as Coalition retains power (Henry Belot, ABC News)
- Election 2019: How the polls got it so wrong in predicting a Labor victory (Paige Cockburn & Bellinda Kontominas, ABC News)
- Federal election 2019 results deliver the Nationals a new sense of success and stability (Henry Belot, ABC News)
- A positive Indian Ocean Dipole this winter is bad news for drought-hit parts of Australia (Irena Ceranic, ABC News)
- Ignorant travellers pose billion-dollar risk to WA economy, quarantine officers say (Matt Bamford, ABC News)
- Drought support review recommends separating Farm Household Allowance from ‘complex’ social security (Kath Sullivan, ABC News)
- Researchers look at impact of new pesticides on beneficial insects (Zara Hall, Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Southbrook vegetable facility sows first seedlings (Queensland Country Life)
- Growing potatoes in high temperatures (Food Processing)