‘Let the workers stay’: Shortage could bring down Sunraysia community, VFF warns

20I6 HIA AGM. Emma Germano (right) with Tanya Chapman in Sydney. 25th November 2016
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SUNRAYSIA growers are unable to pick their fruit in the peak harvest period as workers abandon their jobs in fear of Australian Border Force retribution. Victorian Farmers Federation horticulture (VFF) president Emma Germano said fruit blocks around the region were being left without labour in a “perfect example of what (the VFF) have been trying to […]

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