SEVERAL large Australian beef processors are inducting overseas labourers from Papua New Guinea and the Philippines for the first time this season, as the industry continues to seek solutions for its severe labour deficit.
And while no government-to-government labour access agreement currently exists, Indonesia is increasingly being seen as a very large and capable potential offshore labour resource.
While the actual head-count of recruits from novel sources is only a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared with the actual size of the processing labour void, it’s a start, one large export…
