Supply and demand dictates wages in agriculture says National Farmers' Federation

By Shannon Beattie
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:23pm, first published March 22 2022 - 9:00am
Almost all agricultural industries have experienced workforce shortages which had become more extreme with COVID induced border closures. Photo by Gab Savage, Tolga Farm, Kulin.
Almost all agricultural industries have experienced workforce shortages which had become more extreme with COVID induced border closures. Photo by Gab Savage, Tolga Farm, Kulin.

LAST year, Australia recorded an annual wage growth rate of 2.3 per cent and while that was the fastest seasonally adjusted increase since the September quarter of 2018, it was still representative of the low and slow growth currently forming the national story.

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