PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 30 June

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Food & Drink Business

Chocolate On Purpose has received the Social Enterprise Business award at the 2025 Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards – celebrating Indigenous cultural knowledge of native botanicals and delicious chocolate.

An $8 million federal government grant program aimed at accelerating Australia’s seaweed industry has delivered new research capability, production infrastructure and international collaboration to support commercial growth of Asparagopsis, the methane-inhibiting seaweed used in livestock feed supplements.

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and NSW producer, The Gourmet Goat Lady, have completed a proof-of-concept project demonstrating that goat salami can be safely manufactured and sold in Australia, opening a new value-added opportunity for the goatmeat sector.