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Pressure grows for new ag visa to ease farm labour shortages
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A parliamentary committee made up mostly of Coalition MPs has recommended government establish a new visa to recruit farm workers.
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Pressure is mounting within the Federal Government to establish a new visa that would allow overseas workers to come to Australia to work on farms, with a Coalition-stacked committee of MPs reigniting the call for an ag visa .
Key points: A new parliamentary report says Australia should have a new visa created for farm workers An inquiry looking to grow farm sector to $100bn by 2030 makes no recommendations on climate policy
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Glaring Gap: Inquiry pointless without climate response
Western Australian farmers have labelled the release of the Growing Australia: Inquiry into growing Australian agriculture to $100b by 2030 report, chaired by Federal Member for O’Connor, Rick Wilson MP, a grossly inadequate response to the challenges facing the sector.
Corrigin farmer and AgZero 2030 chair, Simon Wallwork said: “Climate change has already cost Western Australian farmers, with a consistent reduction of growing season rainfall of 60mm or 20 per cent growing season rainfall since 2010, and that’s at only 1.1 degrees of warming.
“At 12 kg/mm that is an opportunity cost of 720 kg/ha if it was not due to the extraordinary adaptation of farmers, but can this continue when the effects of climate change are accelerating?