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Half-price hotel quarantine for agricultural workers as crop losses tip $52m in five months
The New South Wales government will subsidise half the hotel quarantine cost of agricultural workers in a bid to remedy the state’s labour shortage as the nation’s crop losses exceed $52 million since December.
Key points:
- The agricultural sector will be the only sector to receive the 50 per cent quarantine subsidy, the NSW Agriculture Minister says
- The workers are not included in the state’s 3,000 person-per-week arrivals cap
- More than $8.5 million worth of crop losses has been reported across NSW since December
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