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20 Aug 2008 | Guest workers face fee rip-off
Aid agencies say they are establishing a web site to allow guest workers coming to Australia compare fees and transaction costs of the various available methods of sending money back to their families in their home country. ...... FULL STORY
18 Aug 2008 | Guest workers approved for fruit only
Pacific guest workers will be limited to working in horticulture industries in regions with identified labour shortages. The federal government will issue 2,500 visas to workers from four Pacific countries for placements of up to seven months. ...... FULL STORY
12 Aug 2008 | Farmers back pacific workers
The Liberal/National Party coalition is scaremongering and using inappropriate language and information about plans to import unskilled pacific Island workers for fruit picking and other seasonal work say farmers groups. ...... FULL STORY
11 Aug 2008 | Sugar seeks workers
The Sugar industry can not find enough workers to harvest cane without going overseas to recruit and import skills. ...... FULL STORY
8 Aug 2008 | Queensland farmers reduce run-off
The federal government has announced funding for farmers to reduce nutrients, chemicals and sediments leaving their lands. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jun 2008 | Lamb producers switching land to crops
Producers are projected to reduce sheep numbers, on average, by 1.5 per cent and beef cattle numbers by 9.1 per cent in 2007-08. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jun 2008 | Farmers must pay for guest workers
The government has rejected industry calls from farmer's lobby groups for the travel and relocation costs of guest workers to be met by the taxpayer. ...... FULL STORY
5 May 2008 | Cane growers swallowed by trees
Large pieces of land used for canefields in north Queensland are being snapped up by the forestry industry. ...... FULL STORY
2 May 2008 | Apprentice support to stay
The federal government has been forced to back-pedal on a plan to scrap a $50 million agricultural apprenticeship scheme. ...... FULL STORY
27 Mar 2008 | Our shrinking small towns
Small towns in rural Australia are struggling to survive in tough drought conditions with one demographer estimating that five towns slip below a population of 200 each year - below this point towns are considered "lost" or ghost towns. ...... FULL STORY
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