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How one childcare service has been working — on a shoestring budget — to give Indigenous children an equal start in life.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, access-to-education, education, health, shepparton-3630
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Farmers are worried their businesses are on the line as politicians continue to debate the backpacker tax.
Topics: agricultural-policy, fruits, fruit, agricultural-crops, farm-labour, canberra-2600, shepparton-3630, robinvale-3549, kialla-east-3631
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government has announced a new taskforce to carry out water recovery without further damaging northern Murray-Darling Basin communities.
Topics: water-management, irrigation, agricultural-policy, federal---state-issues, federal-parliament, agricultural-crops, parliament-house-2600, toowoomba-4350, st-george-4487, adelaide-5000, renmark-5341, mildura-3500, shepparton-3630, griffith-2680
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Topics: dairy-production, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedNorthern Victorian dairy processor, Australian Consolidated Milk (ACM), offers a guaranteed premium price to farmers who convert to organic dairy production.
Topics: dairy-production, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's Water Minister Ian Hunter storms out of a dinner with state and federal counterparts after delivering an expletive-laden outburst over the future of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, adelaide-5000
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The leader of the National Party says he can help SPC Ardmona now that his party holds the relevant northern Victorian seat. Two years ago Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce famously said that it was for the Liberal Party to fight for SPC, because a Liberal held the seat. At the last election, the seat of Murray switched from Liberal to National, electing new member Damian Drum. Warwick Long spoke to Mr Joyce for ABC Rural.
Topics: food-and-beverage, nationals, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, fruit, vegetables, agricultural-policy, food-processing, shepparton-3630
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he can do more for SPC Ardmona now that his party holds the seat of Murray.
Topics: food-and-beverage, nationals, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, fruit, vegetables, agricultural-policy, food-processing, shepparton-3630
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Topics: food-processing, fruit, vegetables, agribusiness, retail, shepparton-3630
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Topics: agricultural-crops, fires, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedOn the back of the wet winter growers are out in force making hay while the sun shines.
Topics: agricultural-crops, weather, fires, shepparton-3630
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SPC will pay growers for their tomatoes this season despite losing a major contract with supermarket Woolworths.
Topics: agribusiness, fruits, fruit, food-processing, vegetables, shepparton-3630, kerang-3579, melbourne-3000
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A forum from Shepparton discussing the future of SPC Ardmona and its relationship with Woolworths
Topics: food-processing, shepparton-3630
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Supermarket giant Woolworths confirms it will end its year-to-year arrangement with SPC Ardmona to supply its private-label tinned tomatoes, but says it will not cancel a five-year contract that helped bail out the Victorian company.
Topics: states-and-territories, retail, agricultural-crops, shepparton-3630, vic
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| UpdatedSupermarket giant Woolworths is being urged to honour the spirit of its agreement with SPC Ardmona amid reports it may walk away from the $70-million deal.
Topics: food-processing, retail, industry, business-economics-and-finance, regional, states-and-territories, parliament, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000
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The agriculture representative on the ACCC is accused of a conflict of interest because he is also head of the Australian Farm Institute.
Topics: agribusiness, agricultural-policy, consumer-protection, shepparton-3630, mudgegonga-3737, canberra-2600
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Dairy farming families facing the hardships of the milk price crisis from Murray Goulburn AGM.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, food-processing, food-and-beverage, company-news, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000, tongala-3621
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| UpdatedFloods and heavy rain have provided the perfect breeding conditions for mosquitoes and Victorians are being urged to protect themselves and consider nurturing some friendly spiders in their home.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, science-and-technology, disasters-and-accidents, floods, health, mildura-3500, swan-hill-3585, wodonga-3690, shepparton-3630
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Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, floods, shepparton-3630, yambuna-3621
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| UpdatedLower Goulburn River floodwaters bring life to private wetlands.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, floods, yambuna-3621, shepparton-3630
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Topics: murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630
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Major dairy lender Rural Bank says estimates of dairy farmers leaving industry were overblown, with farmers battling on.
Topics: agribusiness, agricultural-prices, banking, dairy-production, shepparton-3630, adelaide-5000, bendigo-3550
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Rural Bank CEO, Alexandra Gartmann speaks about how her clients are coping in a dairy downturn
Topics: dairy-production, banking, agribusiness, shepparton-3630
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A new report shows a devastating impact on northern Victoria from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedA new report says the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is costing northern Victoria over half a billion dollars per year in lost production.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630