Dates are one of the oldest cultivated foods in human history, but in Australia it is an industry still in its infancy. The fruit has been a staple for millennia but now Australian growers are turning ...

Not only do they have to be picked by hand, but the date palms put up a fight at harvest with their prickly, poisonous fronds. Many a grower before him has ended up walking away from the wrinkly, ...

Glen Oliver could not look more at home as he walked through neat rows of date palms towering like giant spiky umbrellas under the clear blue central Australian sky. "One, two, three, four," he said, ...