 Imagine this scenario. You are somewhere in southern Tasmania and about to make a choice between two restaurants for a meal. The menus are not dissimilar, except the seafood in one has been imported from Vietnam. Some of the fruit was picked 'somewhere in China' a few months ago, and other ‘fresh’ … |
 Sally and Gordon Hammond are a freelance writer and photographer team who specialise in food and travel.
Sally Hammond has an extensive background in food over the past 35+ years. She has owned her own food businesses, including a commercial kitchen, taught cookery, been a resta… |
Bordering three other states and encircling the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales was Australia’s first state and birthplace of agriculture in this country. It was here that the infant wheat and wool industry began in harsh and primitive conditions in what is now suburbia. Ne… |
 Almost three times the size of France, Queensland straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and enjoys a widely varied climate and topography. Naturally, this is reflected in its produce. In the far north, tea and coffee plantations mirror – although on a very minor scale, the Indian subcontinent – and tro… |
 Developed without convict labour, South Australia presents differently in some respects to the other states. Certainly the large German migration in the 1800s affected both the land-use and culture of the state, greatly influencing the food and wine industries.The Barossa, especially, thrives becaus… |
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Tasmania tends to be a leader with new produce: truffles, saffron, wakame, wasabi were all trialled and produced here. Decades ago Tassie, as it is affectionately called, introduced Atlantic salmon to the antipodes. The ingenious locals produce almost everything they need, as well as dreami… |
Despite only accounting for three percent of Australia's land mass, Victoria produces around one-quarter of the country's agricultural commodities and almost one-third of its food products.
The state's unique position stretching from semiarid areas, through mounta… |
Covering approximately one-third of the country, Western Australia measures 2,400 kilometres north to south, and 1600 kilometres across. Produce is limited to an extent by the harsh and often arid conditions found throughout much of the state.
In the 1960s the Ord River Irrigation Projec… |
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