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Filipino worker owed 200 hours' worth of pay at time of death, inquest hears
The court has heard the 21-year-old on a 407 training visa in southern NSW was to be paid $134.92 per month to work 10 hours a day for six days a week.
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The cattle have arrived in Jakarta for Indonesia's new school lunch program. The country's new president has vowed to give all students free lunches and milk through the program, which is set to cost billions of dollars.
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The first commercial batch of rock oysters grown in pristine waters off the Abrolhos Islands in WA have been harvested, with plans to eventually supply four million into the domestic market each year.
Photo shows Oysters on saltMeatworks locked out of China says it will take months to supply beef again as trade ban lifts
An Australian beef exporter caught up in a trade war with China says the company has learned not to become overly reliant on a single market.
Photo shows Chinese businessmen Ming Yang and Wong Sheng with Alan Kropp from Australian Country Choice holding a cut of beef.Outback beekeeper battles blistering heat to expand local business
Cody Hannover says he wants to hire other people with "quirks" at his thriving honey business as expands online.
Photo shows a beekeeper lifts a wax rack up towards his covered faceBunnings probes potential biosecurity issue after rice plant apparently found in imported broom
The millet brooms were imported from China and a former rice farmer says he "nearly fell over" when he saw one on the hardware giant's shelf in the heart of Australian rice-growing country.
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