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Labour, power costs putting squeeze on processors

It's one of Australia's largest employers and has an estimated value in the tens of billions of dollars, but the food and grocery manufacturing sector...

Quest expands in South Australia

Quest has revealed its accelerated growth plans in the state alongside the South Australian Tourism Minister, Leon Bignell at an event in Adelaide this...

Hemmes puts pub bandits behind bars

A jury yesterday handed down guilty verdicts for three men accused of committing armed robberies on seven pubs, including Merivale’s Excelsior. In May,...

Australian traveller reveals bed bug nightmare

When it comes to unwanted hotel guests, these little terrors would have to be the worst of the lot. Bed bugs have paid a surprise visit to more than a...

More women graduating to the bar

Like many Australians, Carena Oats and Nic Schultz met playing sport and enjoy catching up over a cold beer - and the fact they are women no longer makes...

Kerzner brings One&Only to Australia

Australia's peak national industry body Tourism & Transport Forum (TTF) has welcomed the news Hayman Island resort in the Great Barrier Reef will be...

Technology to make food last longer

It's being described as one of the future global mega-shocks, whether we will have enough food to feed the world in years to come. "In the next 40 years,...

Five lessons in crisis management

A Melbourne hotel has been praised for its quick response to an incident in which a security guard hit a patron twice and reportedly said, “faggots weren’t...

Energy drink issue bubbles as Byron considers ban

A lobby group which represents soft-drink manufacturers says calls for a ban on the sale of alcohol mixed with energy drinks are over the top. The proposal...

The year's ten best dishes

You know you're in a pretty exciting food city when: 1) A chef with a Michelin-star pedigree sets up a ramen shop in a Chinatown food court; 2) A three-hatted...