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Chairman ' s Report
A significant improvement in fruit quality as a result of improved growing conditions that have been experienced in our major production areas since December has seen recent shipments of Australian nectarines arrive in China that are far more suited to Chinese requirements .
With the arrival last week of the first nectarines from Chile , Australian fruit will need to be of a high standard in order to achieve acceptable farm gate returns for growers . Backpacker tax issues resolved A resolution to the “ backpacker tax ” was finally achieved , after what turned out to be a frustrating and anxious final week of Parliament in December for many Australian farming families and businesses in rural and regional Australia . Frustrating , because after months of very public negotiation with the Federal Government led by the National Farmers Federation and Australian tourism body , with significant input from organisations such as Growcom , Voice of Horticulture and Summerfruit Australia , politicians who had been conspicuous by their absence throughout this negotiation phase chose not to
support the resolved position and in so doing threatened to derail the whole legislation . If that happened then from January 1 , 2017 there would have been no likelihood of being able to get the labour to perform work essential to plant , harvest and pack crops
Thankfully at the eleventh hour sanity prevailed and a workable outcome has been achieved , but surely the message to come out of this for politicians is that vast numbers of Australians and their families should never be subject to this sort of uncertainty just so that a few cheap political points can be scored . Everybody is entitled to their opinion and at times opinions will differ , but after months of very public negotiation choosing the Parliament to voice that opinion and potentially throw a spanner in the works is not acceptable . I am sure that I am not alone when I say that in this situation we expect better of our elected representatives .
– Andrew Finlay
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