Media Release
Mindless government red tape will compromise farmer safety and impose $58 million extra cost for the privilege
In a classic example of bureaucracy gone mad, the Federal Department of Employment and Safe Work Australia are putting farmer and other agricultural workers safety at risk and imposing an extra $58 million of unnecessary red tape costs on Australian agriculture with the implementation of duplicative labelling regulation on crucial agricultural chemicals. Matthew Cossey, Chief Executive Officer of the national peak organisation for Australia’s plant science sector, CropLife Australia, today said “this is one of…