Vegan and vegetarian food masquerading as meat will soon be scrutinised by a Senate committee.
Nationals senator Susan McDonald has launched an inquiry into food labelling laws as the Australian red meat industry seeks to protect the provenance of its products.
The former butcher said it was up to makers of non-meat products to come up with their own distinct terms instead of piggybacking off long-established animal proteins like mince and sausages.
An Australian red meat industry is fighting for plant-based products to stop using the word meat in their labels (pictured plant-based beef sausages)
Meat producers are taking issue with how plant-based food producers are packing their products as though they are real meat
Date Time
Reinsurance pool announcement for North Australia welcomed
Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a North Australian reinsurance pool.
Cr Hill said the announcement made today would provide relief to residents, business owners and strata title holders that had been crippled by the rising cost of insurance in the north.
“Residents, business owners and strata title holders in Townsville and North Australia have been struggling under insurance premiums that are now almost double those in the rest of Australia and I’m sure this announcement will provide relief to a lot of people,” Cr Hill said.
MacroBusiness
Access Subscriber Only Content
at 9:20 am on March 5, 2021 | 147 comments
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is in deep, deep trouble. He thinks he’s fighting a culture war when things have moved far past that. Australia is now the in throes of a generational shift that is rendering the Morrison Government obsolete. It is under sustained attack, quite rightly, from an extraordinary alliance of alleged sexual assault victims and supporters, prominent women in the press, the legal profession, and all decent blokes as well. This is now a revolution not a political problem.
Let’s first reprise the latest news flow. Late yesterday, Morrison completely lost control of the rape narrative. At The Australian:
A Labor MP lashed out on Q&A after a senator said Christian Porter deserved justice over a historical rape accusation as the scandal snowballs.
News by Ally Foster  A Liberal senator and a Labor MP clashed during ABC s Q&A on Thursday night over a question about the historical rape allegation against Attorney-General Christian Porter. The Attorney-General has never been charged and police confirmed there was insufficient evidence to proceed with an investigation, labelling the matter closed . The subject caused tension on
Q&A when an audience member asked whether the panel thought Prime Minister Scott Morrison should launch an independent inquiry into the allegations against Mr Porter. Queensland National Party Senator Susan McDonald threw her support behind Mr Porter, saying she felt deeply for the woman and her family but that the justice system must be adhered to.