‘Days, not weeks’: Victoria urged to fly in Pacific workers to cover critical farm shortage – The Age

We have got to just be practical and make things happen. We are staring down the barrel of Victorian produce stone fruit, cherries, grapes rotting, said Ms Germano, who started harvesting cauliflower on her Gippsland farm this week.
In reality some damage has already been done but the need is not going away.
Premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged after National Cabinet on Friday that Australia needed 15,000 to 20,000 seasonal workers as soon as possible primarily because the annual cohort of 140,000…

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