Federal MP Anne Webster says reforms for a Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme will threaten local farmers.
The Member for Mallee says the Labor is taking a successful scheme needed to fill labour shortages in the agriculture industry and wrecking it to please the unions.
She says farmers are now threatening to boycott the program after snap changes were made to the rules.
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She says the government has no concept of the realities of the regions and agriculture with seasonal work.
