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Government report predicts continued fall in Queensland milk production

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A report released today by the Queensland Government predicts the State’s milk production will fall by 5 per cent for the year 2011/12. The report attributes the impacts of natural disaster recovery...

Foreign investors targeting Australia’s lucrative sugar industry

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Foreign investors continue to target Australia’s lucrative sugar industry, as Chinese-owned Tully Sugar Limited vies with Singapore-based conglomerate Sucrogen to purchase Queensland’s Proserpine Co-operative...

Queensland Opposition demands better food security strategy

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Queensland’s Opposition party, the Liberal National Party (LNP), has demanded that the State of Queensland double its food production by 2040. LNP Leader Campbell Newman today launched a long term agricultural...

Weston’s flour and semolina mill back in business

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Queensland’s largest flour mill and only durum semolina mill, owned by Weston Milling, has recommenced production after an extensive rebuild that followed the devastating Brisbane floods in January 2011. The...

High rates of Fair Work non-compliance in Queensland take-away outlets

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Random audits by the Fair Work Ombudsman have revealed that more than one-quarter of non-franchised take-away outlets in Queensland food courts are not complying with workplace laws. Fair Work is the...

Queensland announces state Food Policy

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Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Economies Tim Mulherin today launched a food policy for Queensland to further build the state’s multi-billion dollar food industry. “As part of...

Flooded Gulf gets help from QLD Govt and AgForce

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This week Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Economies Tim Mulherin, Member for Mount Isa Betty Kiernan and AgForce President Brent Finlay will visit Karumba, Normanton and Burketown to meet with...

Korean friendship a boon for QLD producers

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Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Economies Tim Mulherin said today the longstanding and valuable relationship between Australia and the Republic of Korea will benefit Queensland’s food producers. “2011...

Foodbank thanks donors for disaster relief

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Foodbank, Australia’s largest hunger relief organisation, had its resources put to the test in recent months in the face of the natural disasters in Queensland and Victoria.However, the charity said...

Pauls milk profits pour into flood relief

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Pauls has received strong support from the Queensland community for its campaign to raise money for flood relief. This month Parmalat is donating 100 percent of the profits from the Queensland sales of...