This issue focuses on the key legal, commercial, and consumer pressures facing Australia’s meat industry, particularly for independent butchers and processors. It examines a significant High Court case involving activist trespass and covert filming, highlighting implications for producer rights, biosecurity, and industry protection. The edition also explores margin pressure on independents, driven by the lamb versus beef pricing debate and the growing imbalance between wholesale costs and supermarket retail pricing. Alongside these challenges, the issue looks at emerging risks such as microplastics in meat, while also identifying growth opportunities in smallgoods, premium retail models, and liquor licensing exemptions that can help businesses strengthen profitability and resilience.

Issue Topics

• Activist Ban High Court

• Hidden Risk in Australian Meat

• Australian Small Goods Outlook

• Land and Sea Luxury

• Btuchers Exemption for Liquor