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Coffee Brothers' Tony Macri wants cafes to join a fundraising effort for Tanna Island. Audio
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Coffee Brothers' co-director Tony Macri visited Tanna Island in 2011 to meet with farmers and start trading direct. He is appealing for cafes to join a fundraising effort to support rebuilding efforts on the island following Tropical Cyclone Pam.
Topics: tea-coffee, crop-harvesting, cyclones, cyclone, international-aid-and-trade, vanuatu, mona-vale-2103
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Coffee roaster calls for cafes to join $1 cup appeal
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A Sydney coffee roaster is calling on cafes from Australia and around the world to support the rebuilding of Tanna Island.
Topics: cyclones, tea-coffee, cyclone, crop-harvesting, international-aid-and-trade, vanuatu, mona-vale-2103
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Tony Macri visits Tanna Island in Vanuatu image
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Coffee roaster visits farmer co-operative on Tanna Island image
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Topics: tea-coffee, cyclones, cyclone, international-aid-and-trade, vanuatu, mona-vale-2103
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Starbucks solves racism - one macchiato at a time Opinion
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It's heart-warming to see Starbucks has solved racism by getting its baristas to talk about race with customers - but why end there? Here's five other hot topics that should be discussed over a caramel macchiato.
Topics: tea-coffee, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance
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Canberra barista wins Australian coffee title
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Using beans in season and understanding flavours are just some of the secrets to brewing the best coffee, according to Australia's barista champion Sasa Sestic.
Topics: hospitality, tea-coffee, canberra-2600
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Modest coffee consumption good for the heart: study
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People who drink three to five cups of coffee a day may have a lower risk of developing clogged arteries that can cause serious heart problems, a study reports.
Topics: heart-disease, tea-coffee, health, medical-research, korea-republic-of
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ACT 'skinny latte' lovers consuming more fat than ordered: study
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Canberra coffee lovers opting for a skinny latte are consuming more fat than they had bargained for, with new data suggesting most ACT cafes do not use skim milk in their coffees.
Topics: tea-coffee, caffeine, health, heart-disease, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Bitter sweet, cocoa and the pollinating power of midges
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Researchers are trying to boost cocoa production by encouraging tiny, biting insects to populate farms in far north Queensland.
Topics: agricultural-crops, fruit, tea-coffee, research, pests, cairns-4870
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The coffee roasting facility in the redeveloped Aranda shops. image
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Topics: tea-coffee, retail, hospitality, canberra-2600
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Madura Tea celebrate Canstar Blue customer satisfaction award image
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Topics: tea-coffee, murwillumbah-2484
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Madura Tea in the Tweed Valley. image
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Madura Tea named top tea for third year in a row Audio
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Madura Tea's chief executive officer, Barry Cosier, says the business is stoked to be win customer satisfaction award a third time. Read more.
Topics: tea-coffee, murwillumbah-2484
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Australian tea named the best bag
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A blend of tea that hasn't changed in 35 years has been awarded Australia's favourite cup for the third year running.
Topics: tea-coffee, murwillumbah-2484
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Nerada tea plantation is now based at Malanda on the Atherton Tableland, after being relocated from the coast near Innisfail where it was established by Dr Allan Maroof image
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Topics: tea-coffee, cairns-4870
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Dr Peter Griggs gives a colourful and interesting insight to tea in Australian society Audio
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Dr Peter Griggs is a human geographer with an interest in agricultural and environmental history. His book on the history of sugar cane production in Australia gave an insight to the good, the bad and ugly of one of the country's oldest and largest agricultural export industries. Now, he's created a stir by telling far north Queenslanders they were not the first to grow tea commercially in Australia.
Topics: tea-coffee, history, human-interest, cairns-4870
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Loose-leaf, black tea grown organically in far north Queensland image
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Topics: tea-coffee, cairns-4870
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Human geographer Peter Griggs says it was his research on sugar that prompted his interest in the social and economic history of tea image
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Topics: sugar, tea-coffee, author, cairns-4870
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Controversy brews as Australian tea history is upended Feature (audio)
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Far north Queensland's claim to being the home of Australia's first commercial tea plantations may be under threat.
Topics: tea-coffee, history, human-interest, cairns-4870
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Topics: tea-coffee, regional, wodonga-3690
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Destructive pest threatens PNG's coffee crop
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The berry borer pest is threatening to destroy the majority of Papua New Guinea's coffee crop.
Topics: tea-coffee, agricultural-crops, pests, pest-management, papua-new-guinea, papua
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Workers wait at John's coffee van in Karratha image
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Topics: mining-rural, tea-coffee, karratha-6714
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John runs a coffee van in Karratha image
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Topics: mining-rural, tea-coffee, karratha-6714
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Cocoa farm gains price control (audio)
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A farmer on Queensland's north coast has started growing cocoa trees in order to have more control over the price of his product.
Topics: agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-crops, tea-coffee, rural-tourism, ingham-4850
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Tree changing family on the Northern Rivers wins six awards Audio
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Jenni, Coco and Tony Rogers speak with Julie Ray about the pros and cons of being new farmers and winning six awards at the 2014 Sydney Royal Fine Food Show.
Topics: tea-coffee, awards-and-prizes, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, dalwood-2477
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