Date Time Share Australian Workers' Union Please note the original version of this release, distributed at 07:56AM, contained an error in the lede. The government’s new visa scheme proposal seems custom-designed to exacerbate the already rampant abuse and exploitation happening daily on Australian farms, according to the Australian Workers’ Union. The federal government has announced a new visa scheme enabling agricultural workers to be recruited from 10 South-East Asian nations. The scheme is designed to replace the flow of easily exploited workers that will be lost the system after a new free trade deal with Britain scrapped the 88-day work requirement from British working holiday visas.