South Australian farmer Sharon Starick was appointed the first female chair of the Grains Research and Development Corporation, with WA's Bob Nixon taking on the deputy role.
Invasive productivity monitoring and anti-union controls in Amazon's foreign warehouses do not occur in Australia, Amazon executives told a Senate committee. The Senate Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence continued its hearings on Friday, with Amazon executives based in Toronto and Sydney among the first to appear.
Albany will soon be home to one of Australia's largest mussel production areas after the state government granted aquaculture sub-licenses to Harvest Road Oceans for the second phase of the project. The sublicenses, announced on July 4, allow Harvest Road Oceans to expand its operations to 810 hectares along the Albany Aquaculture Development Zone.