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Poll: Should there be an amnesty on illegal farm workers?

With ways to address a looming worker shortage being quietly explored, should there be an amnesty on illegal farm workers? Vote now in our poll.

A backpacker from Taiwan harvesting cauliflowers in Queensland in a 2007 picture from our files. There is no suggestion he was an illegal worker. Picture: David Martinelli
A backpacker from Taiwan harvesting cauliflowers in Queensland in a 2007 picture from our files. There is no suggestion he was an illegal worker. Picture: David Martinelli

SHOULD there be an amnesty on illegal farm workers?

Ways to bring in such an amnesty are quietly being explored, as governments scramble to find a solution to a looming worker shortage.

Have your say on the question of the week by voting in this week’s poll after reading the story.

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