When I returned to Australia in November 2017, the first project I was hired for was to help explain the implications of the Labour Hire Licensing Act to to fruit and veg farmers in Northern Victoria. That's how I got so close to the human trafficking issues involving undocumented horticulture workers, and to the issues surrounding our constitutionally protected water rights. I interviewed dozens of farmers and ran events for grower associations all across Northern Victoria. That's how I discovered that it isn't the everyday mum and pop fruit 'n veg farms who are behind the human trafficking operation. The issue was systemic and state-sponsored, and involved providing an illegal workforce to horticulture to help strip and launder the assets (farms, water rights) of Australian dairy farmers, in conjunction with milk price wars that politicians were orchestrating with supermarkets. In 2010, I met with the Group Treasurer of Murray Goulburn Dairy Cooperative, a $7 billion turnover pa business that my grandfather co-founded, to introduce myself. Shortly afterwards the Greensill Scandal kicked off in the United Kingdom and in 2016, as the BREXIT referendum was taking place in the United Kingdom and I was being stripped of my assets in the United Kingdom, the Murray Goulburn Dairy Cooperative fell victim to a state-sponsored terrorist attack (industrial sabotage) that contributed to the destruction of the livelihoods of thousands of the dairy farmers whose rights were traditionally defended by my ancestors, whilst at the same time Aboriginal tribes were being locked out of their own constitutional rights to water, and the Canadian Police and Army Pension Fund was taking control of our constitutionally protected water rights. At that time, fruit 'n veg growers (family owned farms) were complaining about having their data stripped via supermarkets-controlled SEDEX in an ineffective solution to modern day slavery (but a very effective way of stripping data from family owned farms) ... and Australia was signing an onerous free trade agreement with the UK that allowed our small business data to be stripped and sent to London (the money laundering capital of the world). So, then I began to raise objections and pointing out the issues in a large number of submissions to various inquiries and to regulators and law enforcement organisations in Australia, the USA, UK and Germany.
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Safety, Sustainability and Social Media Officer at FW Mansfield & Son
1moSpot on, let’s hope supermarkets and the government listen and act now, before it’s too late