Jonathon Malone and Kelvin Dunrobin launch Blackfella Beef with Stairmaster the champion Senepol bull (ABC Capricornia: Inga Stunzer) Blackfella beef brand plans to unite Indigenous producers ‘Kelvin Dunrobin ABC rural news of progress in the planning. “The picture I have come up with is we’re going to have all-Aboriginal cattle ranches, and farmers and …
Review: Wild Asparagus. Wild Strawberries
Barbara Santich Wakefield Press South Australia First published 2018 http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au ‘My typewriter sits forlorn, and my puny attempts to describe the idiosyncrasies of life in rural France go nowhere near capturing its complexities’. Santich is recalling her frustration, sitting in sitting in her room in Caromb in the Midi, France, in 1978. With the …
Continue reading "Review: Wild Asparagus. Wild Strawberries"
Diggings 13 May 2018
Fruit stall in Ostia Antico How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era 'That it was urban, and not rural, hunger that troubled policy makers is vitally important. Food and employment for people in rural areas – where most of the world’s hunger was concentrated – were of little concern. Hunger began to matter …
Growing food in the post-truth era
Critics fear the merger of agricultural giants Bayer and Monsanto will drive an increase in use of pesticides. AgriLife Today/flickr, CC BY-NC-NDAlana Mann, University of Sydney This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in …
