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Australia’s Fire Crisis and Its Impact on Food

10 January 2020 Paula Thomas

The 2019-2020 fires have struck Australia in apocalyptic waves. They have ravaged the land, killed millions of animals, and displaced thousands of people, causing a health threat of epic proportions. Smoke has clouded the sky in Sydney and Melbourne and traveled as far as New Zealand. With fires burning since September and two more months …

Australian Federal Government and the Opposition Sign Off on Uncontrolled Genetic Experiment

18 November 2019

Slow Food in Australia is deeply disappointed that the Federal Government and the Labour party ignored calls from farmers, organic food producers and agricultural exporters to disallow amendments to the Gene Technology Regulations, submitting Australians to a nationwide genetic experiment. Both parties failed in the Senate to support the Greens’ motion disallowing amendments to the …

Indigenous Terra Madre: Land Rights, Nutrition and Resisting Climate Change

12 October 2019 Jack Coulton

The second day of Indigenous Terra Madre Asia & Pan-Pacific in Ainu Mosir saw our delegates engaged in discussion and debate on the most pressing issues common to communities around the world: the threats posed by our rapidly changing climate and reduced access to land, and the importance of preserving biodiversity in order to ensure cultural continuity and adequate nutrition.

Slow Fish Melbourne Keeps the Conversation about Sustainable Seafood Going

23 April 2019 David McKenzie

Last month in Melbourne, the second Slow Fish Melbourne festival brought together fishers, marine scientists, seafood industry representatives, chefs and consumers together to talk about the state of our oceans and fisheries.

Australia’s First Slow Meat Symposium in Daylesford

14 August 2017

Slow Food in Australia is hosting the first Slow Meat Symposium in Daylesford on 3 – 4 September 2017. The Slow Meat mantra is ‘eat better meat, less’.

Report: GMOs in Tasmania

19 June 2017 Slow Food Hobart

There has been a moratorium on GMOs within Tasmania in place since 2001, with the aim of preserving the island’s reputation for “clean, green and quality” products. In January 2014 the Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industry publicly announced that: “The Tasmanian Government’s position is to maintain a moratorium on the commercial release of GMOs to …

Terra Madre Chefs’ Network Changing The Food System in Australia

3 April 2017

There’s a whole lot of good, clean and fair food being grown and eaten down under, indeed, there are people living the Slow Food philosophy in every part of the country. From the Millbrook Winery in Jarrahdale, Western Australia, where practically everything you can eat is grown onsite, to the “Bush Food” specialists at FirstFoodCo in Salisbury, Southern Australia and Slow-inspired restaurants up and down Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, the word is spreading.

First Australian Terra Madre celebrates nation’s diversity in food traditions and production

23 November 2016

A lively farmers’ market, cooking demonstrations and talking circles brought a large crowd together at Mildura, Victoria last Saturday when Slow Food in Australia opened up to the public with an inaugural Australian Terra Madre event as part of the 2016 Slow Food in Australia National Conference.

Swan Valley, Australia: An Ark of Taste Strudel (with recipe!) and Benefit for Earthquake Victims

9 November 2016

An event held by Slow Food Swan Valley to showcase local ingredients and raise money for quake victims. To put an interesting local twist on proceedings, the Amatriciana sauce was prepared using Smooth Skin Geraldton tomatoes, a local Ark of Taste product.