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NSW Agriculture Minister hints at long-awaited seasonal worker relief announcement
The New South Wales Agriculture Minister says an announcement will be made this week to ease pressure on farmers who have been crying out for help to get crops from the farm to market.
Key points:
- Extra overseas workers are en route to NSW to help farmers fill jobs
- Farmers say quarantine costs are too high and that a more “sophisticated” approach is needed
- The NSW Agriculture Minister says an upcoming an announcement will address some of the issues
It follows National Cabinet’s move to lift coronavirus passenger caps, which will allow more overseas workers to come in and fill 26,000 jobs going begging in the agriculture sector.
Eight hundred horticulture and abattoir workers are already bound for NSW since that announcement, which NSW Farmers…
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