Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme changes announced last week could be the “final nail in the coffin” for many small Australian farmer operations, while facilitating the growth of larger businesses able to absorb the program’s new wage guarantee arrangements.
That’s according to leading horticulture expert Matt Palise, the managing director of Red Rich Fruits, a third-generation farming business that began 70 years ago in the Yarra Valley and has evolved into a vertically integrated business growing and marketing apples, pears, stone fruit, mandarins and mangoes across the…
