Submission to ‘A Migration System for Australia’s Future’ Review
While migrant workers are not the principal source of labour for the farming sector — and should not be seen as the panacea to its workforce challenges — effective labour migration programs are critical to the sector. At present farms rely heavily on three types of migrant worker: working/work and holiday makers (backpackers), Pacific Labour […]
PALM scheme leaves smaller growers behind
The National Farmers’ Federation’s (NFF) Horticulture Council is calling on the Federal Government to ensure its much-heralded solution to the growing workforce crisis works for the whole of the sector. Following COVID-19 disruptions, there was a swift shift towards a greater reliance on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, but with that came headaches […]