Australia is on the trans-fatty acid “fail” list
Countries with the most trans fat in their food supply have yet to create policies protecting their citizens. They include ...
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US sees spike in contaminated Aus meat
US food safety officials have blocked a rising number of meat shipments from Australia since 2019 due to fecal contamination, ...
Australia’s ‘blackbirding’ past and its roots in the global slave trade
There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd’s name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on ...
Farmers raise ‘deep concerns’ over Australia trade deal
The BBC reports that Scottish farmers have expressed "deep concerns" over a trade deal agreed between the UK and Australia. ...
Australia free trade deal: Food standards and producers will suffer
Farmers across the UK are concerned by a UK trade deal offered to Australia with a 15-year transition to no ...
Aus trade minister visit: UK farmers worry about low standards
Australia’s trade minister, Dan Tehan, is due in the UK within days to speed up post-Brexit trade talks, according to a ...
“Wage theft is a business model” for harvest workers in Australia
A new report confirms that agricultural workers are being exploited and abused in Australia, with young foreign backpackers, seasonal migrants ...
Indigenous communities must be engaged in food programmes
A new study, published by BMJ Global Health, underlines the importance of involving indigenous communities in programmes to improve diets. ...
9 billion bees transported to almond crops
The ABC reports that Australia's largest mass migration of livestock — in the form of bees — is underway in ...
Always remember who you are: Life in country part two
The last of Isobel’s elders have died; the people who took canoes, even swam from island to island. We explore ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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