Tony Mahar, CEO of The National Farmers Federation, addressed the steep increase of grocery prices due to a surge in agricultural wages.

A wages rise for temporary skilled migrants may be long-awaited but will mean fierce upward pressure on grocery prices.

Although the wage increase will rule out 84% of agricultural workers, Mahar stated that the continuous exploitation of workers in the agricultural sector, “has to be stamped out”.

“The extra burden that our government is putting on [farmers], they can’t cope with”.

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