One would have thought that the global COVID-19 pandemic, the effective closure of Australia’s international border, and mass unemployment would have dampened calls from business lobbies to import cheap migrant labour.
Not so, with National Farmers Federation telling a Senate inquiry that it wants streamlined arrangements to make it easier to import migrant workers:
Agricultural industries are highly reliant on unskilled migrant labour, particularly backpackers employed under the Working Holiday Maker visa that supply between 20 and 60 per cent of the industry’s workforce, depending on the commodity type…
