4 Oct 2016
- QFF has joined the national campaign to save the Northern Basin communities with industry member Cotton Australia. See the join statement HERE.
- The Federal Government has amended the proposed 32.5% backpacker tax on working holiday makers, to 19% from their first dollar earned. See QFF & the Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) joint statement welcoming the decision HERE.
- QFF industry members Growcom & Cotton Australia have welcomed the amendment to the backpacker tax. Growcomstatement HERE.
Cotton Australia statement HERE. - More than 7,000 Queensland farmers are working towards a better reef. See QFF President Stuart Armitage’s QCLcolumn outlining how ‘Queensland agriculture delivering on Reef investment‘. See full column HERE.
- QFF industry member Queensland Chicken Growers Association (QCGA) discusses the importance of their industry to the Scenic Rim. See QCGA President Jodie Redcliffe’s Beaudesert Times column HERE.
- Is your workplace mentally healthy? Find out with the Queensland Government’s free, one-hour webinar on Thursday 13 October. Details & registration HERE.
- St John’s Queensland has developed a FREE First Aid App for mobile phones with a step-by-step first aid, information & images. Details & download HERE.
- See the latest QFF Energy Savers cotton case study from Emerald with a potential 37% energy saving. See the latest agricultural energy efficiency case studies HERE.
- Australians spend more than $720 billion in groceries every year, but those born in the 1980s or early ‘90s are likely to be wasting about 20 per cent of their weekly food purchases.
- The planned buyout of a North Queensland banana farm is on hold as authorities investigate another suspected case of the plant fungus, Panama tropical race 4 (TR4).
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