Lies lies and more lies.

There are many reasons for food shortages and consequential price gouging riding on its back.

Rural industries have consistently relied on wage theft and under payments of its itinerant work force.

Rural industries are generally a lazy mob of exploitive bludgers and thieves.
Nothing has changed much in two hundred years.

Dan

Labour shortages my eye! There are over a million Australians on the dole and job keeper. Get them out into the healthy fresh air working instead of sitting about getting handouts.

I don't have statistics but have observed several times that taxpayers massively subsidise foreign agricultural workers. Governments pay for charter planes, quarantine then ongoing accommodation in four star hotels and airconditioned coaches to and from the hotel and the farm. The farmer has to pay some modest wages and perhaps a pittance in taxes. There seems to be no end to the largesse of conservative governments who need to 'prove' how well the market system works.

Like foreign students the use of foreign farm labour seems to be a back door way of increasing permanent population in the absence of a population policy. Add to that absconders and sponsored relatives. If locals won't do the jobs I suggest we need more automation such as fruit picking machinery.

ttbn has got it right, no if's no but's !
Even better start a non-military National Service for all 18-20 year old unemployed !
Problem solved.

According to Senator Ruston, people might very well be required to work for the dole during the current labour crisis caused by hysterical state governments.

labour crisis caused by hysterical state governments.
ttbn,
I'm inclined to blame the hangers-on in the opposition for that ! They bleat about Dole bludgers whilst bludging within the Public Service themselves and, at far greater expense to all !