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A request from Lockyer Valley mayor Tanya Milligan to inform and consult residents before the arrival and quarantine of 160 international workers in Grantham was ignored by the Queensland governmentâs Department of Agriculture, she has claimed.
Cr Milligan has slammed the non-existent community consultation as âdisappointingâ and said councilâs request to the agriculture department for the Grantham community to be informed ahead of the seasonal workersâ arrival on Friday, May 7.
Cr Milligan said the Lockyer Valley Regional Council was contacted via the local disaster management group to establish their opinion on the workers from Vanuatu and Pacific Islands quarantining at a hub in Grantham.
Australiaâs agriculture must seek out the right skills to boom
Farming has much more potential, but it needs a better-trained and rewarded workforce than it often relies on now.
John Azarias
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From $60 billion today to $100 billion in 2030. It is a rousing production goal for Australian agriculture but hard to achieve without a rethink of the skills appropriate for agriculture in 2030.
That rethink was the task of the National Agricultural Labour Advisory Committee (NALAC), established by the government in December 2019.
More rural skills are urgently needed if Australia is to achieve its 2030 agricultural production goal. Â
Australian farming faces future disruptions from many sources, including climate, disease and geopolitics; new consumer trends replacing âfarm to forkâ with âfork to farmâ; rapid technological developments needing new skills; and recent biosecurity issues that require new competencies.
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