The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Friday 22nd, 2021
Australia’s New ASEAN Farm Worker Visa Hits Snags by Murray Hunter
The necessary amendments to immigration legislation to enable ASEAN skilled, semi-skilled, and un-skilled farm workers to be employed on Australian farms was ratified by the Governor General last week. Now workers from participating ASEAN countries are able to enter into employment agreements with Australian farmers.
Although the legislation is enacted, there are still many unsettled details about precisely how the new visa will work. Obtaining labour is critical to much of Australia’s farm industry, which is suffering severe shortages, particularly around harvest times. Seasonal workers from the United Kingdom have dried up due to border closures during the pandemic, and local urban unemployed cannot be attracted to farms for this seasonal work.
There has been a lot of criticism of this new visa, primarily over the potential avenues of exploitation that may occur to workers. The union movement is also concerned that Asian farm workers would depress wage levels, while state health authorities have been concerned about the logistics of quarantine.
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A song of new wineskins #poem by Osy Mizpah Unuevho
” my daughter speaks of the hunger in all of us; calls it a
postmark of noise in the place where i burn old things
expected to pass away—”
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Ephemera 21#23 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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