Podcasts & Interviews

Paul Miller, from the Australian Olive Association, says producers can’t compete with cheap imports and are being forced to sell below the cost of production.The olive oil industry is the…

Courtesy of ABC National Radio – Late Night Live (4.00pm) with Phillip Adams. As world prices for olive oil drop, fake or adulterated olive oil is being sold as ‘Extra…

The Global Mail World’s purest olive oil: Italy? Nup. Spanish? Wrong again. Better testing shows it’s often Australians making the exta viginest. Australians have been guzzling mislabelled extra virgin olive…

Congratulations to Today Tonight reporter Frank Pangallo on his recent win “best current affairs report (olive oil)” and “best series, campaign or investigation (olive oil)”. http://www.sapressclub.com.au/awards/12/bestseriescampaigninvestigation.html

A massive hail storm has wiped out a quarter of one of Australia’s biggest olive crops. Boundary Bend Estate produces olives and olive oil at Boort, in central Victoria. The…

THERE are many hurdles for growers to overcome in the future, writes ALEX SAMPSON As growers around the state struggle to cope with the heat, high Aussie dollar, supermarket pressure…

An olive grower has plunged into a bath of olive oil on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra to protest against cheap and dodgy olive oil imports. Richard Whiting,…