The post critiques rising food prices and stagnant real wages, blaming farmers and exporters for demanding cheaper labor while failing to deliver on promised economic spillover effects.
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Well, there look there'll be plenty of policy coming from us, but I've also been really clear in all of the engagements that I've had as farmers that we're not going to be changing things for the sake of it. So where there are things that the current government are doing that are working and that are delivering the outcomes that we also want to see. We're not going to change things for the sake of it. Uh so you know, we I I I hear the message from the farming community. They want a bit more continuity, a bit more stability there. And I think they'll actually see that reflected in the ag policy that the Labour Party releases. Doesn't mean we're going to agree with them on everything.
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Labour's silence on farm policy is seen as neglect
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