The week’s top stories (week ending 28/01/2020)
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Bridget McKenzie quits frontbench after report finds she breached ministerial standards (ABC News)
- Vegetable dreams squashed by Kaufland exit (Simon Evans, Australian Financial Review) – Subscription required
- How long until drought-stricken towns run out of water? (Lucy Barbour, Caitlyn Gribbin & Emma Machan, ABC News)
- Inside the room as the Murray-Darling’s top cop Mick Keelty meets irrigators (Kath Sullivan, ABC Rural)
- Stimulus projects for drought-hit shires too slow and limited, report finds (Sarah Martin, The Guardian) – subscription required
- Petrol and fresh food prices spike, but inflation remains low (Stephen Letts, ABC News)
- Bushfire-affected farmers falling through the cracks unable to qualify for government grants (David Claughton & Michael Cavanagh, ABC Rural)
- Have of new indoor growers ‘have no ag experience’ (Fred Searle, Fruitnet)
- Farmers waiting up to a year for drought loans to be assessed (Tim Fookes, ABC Rural)
- Bushfires – episode one (Pip Courtney, ABC Landline)
- How the bushfires have affected our food producers (Blake Foden, Jasper Lindell, Peter Brewer & Steve Evans, Good Fruit and Vegetables)