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Australian ASEAN Farm Worker Visa Runs Into Flak

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Australian ASEAN Farm Worker Visa Runs Into Flak

Australia, facing a potential food crisis, faces diplomatic and political resistance to program

Jan 5, 2022
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Australian ASEAN Farm Worker Visa Runs Into Flak

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By: Murray Hunter

In the midst of chronic labor shortages on farms across Australia and a looming potential food crisis with rapidly rising food prices, the ASEAN farm workers visa program is finding diplomatic and political resistance on a number of fronts.

In country after country in Southeast Asia, which like Australia face their own labor shortages, g…

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