Food, travel and cultural hot-spot Hobart has proved a strong draw card for Slow Food members across the country attending a national Slow Food in Australia meeting April 26-28. The event, hosted by Slow Food Hobart, includes a programme of discussions and workshops to develop new national projects and celebrations to promote the region’s finest sustainable produce. Read about the meeting, international guests and related events and download the programme.

Making a choice to buy only local food yields many benefits – for our farmers and fishers and their families and staff, for farming communities, farm equipment suppliers, and for shoppers and eaters.

As one blog correspondent to Slow Food’s Australian website noted in 2011: ‘Smoking is okay, but raw milk cheese very dangerous????’ Australia’s food standards authority continues to ban the sale of ‘soft’ cheese made from raw milk. Find out about our campaign.

Slow Food promotes the right to choose what makes up the daily diet of all people, including the knowledge and freedom to choose what to grow, and how this food is grown and distributed. Read about the right to choose.