Industry News & Updates

The latest Australian Organic industry news & member updates.

AOL completes 2025-26 Federal Budget Submission

Australian Organic Limited has provided a federal pre-budget submission, requesting investment in key areas to help support our industry's growth potential. These requests are broken down into three key pillars, as detailed below.....

Senate Inquiry reveals groundswell of support for closing organic loophole

Australia’s organic industry has welcomed the broad-based and emphatic support for the introduction of domestic regulation, with more than 95 per cent of submissions to a Senate Inquiry in favour of the move. The Senate Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport is currently assessing the merits of the National Organic Standard Bill 2024,....

Industry warns Australia is losing ground in world organic rankings

Some of Australia’s leading organic businesses and certifiers have warned a Senate Inquiry that Australia risks going from world leader to world laggard if the National Organic Standard Bill is not passed in Parliament next year. The proposed legislation, introduced to Federal Parliament last month, follows years of advocacy by the organic industry to create....