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Refugees and Centrelink recipients could be forced to solve Australia's supply chain crisis under a new plan from a heavyweight Australian investor.
David Williams, a financial powerbroker who helped bring Vegemite back to Australian ownership, says the Australian government should be turning to people on welfare and even asylum seekers to help labour shortages around the country.
Mr Williams said people being held in detention facilities, including those living in $109-per-night hotel in Melbourne where Novak Djokovic was detained, could be 'given a life' by a system that would reignite the market.
'Many farmers are in desperate need of labour to get product off (the farm) and all options need to be urgently considered,' he said.
Refugees and Centrelink recipients could be forced to solve Australia's supply chain crisis under a new plan from a heavyweight Australian investor
The Independent Food Distributors Association, which represents hundreds of suppliers across Australia, says the staff shortages were having a devastating
