Pete Findlay

So we're certainly very pleased that we've got more consumers and consumers that enjoy our product.

It hasn't.

Hasn't helped us quite as much from an employment point of view.

A lot of our factories are in regional areas.

So we would say that we still struggle in some areas to get employees.

So we're doing a significant project in the Bega Valley, and that's been quite difficult.

We've had to employ 90 new people into that factory there, which we're really pleased about.

Supporting our communities and being part of our communities is very much part of our work.

our ethos and our history and our culture.

But we would say sometimes it can be hard finding people to work in those zoos and people with the right skills.

A lot of our equipment's quite complex and we require a lot of trades to run our factory, so that can be difficult.

And then what I would say is that getting labour out to our farms, our farmers find it very hard to get labour.

And so as they scale their businesses to become more productive, so as their dairy farms or their

citrus groves or or become bigger and we obviously buy a lot of oranges as well for our orange juice business they they are having trouble getting getting the labor to to help them scale so you know we would encourage we're certainly migration is really important but we encourage legislation that helps get that that labor out to the out to rural areas

Oh, it's definitely a challenge.

And I...

It's definitely a challenge.

I mean, we encourage our farmers to plant trees.

So we love to see dairy farms with lots of rows of trees and farms with healthy biodiversity, healthy soil.

So we're very much around farmers caring for their properties and their land and the environment in which they operate in, and to be brutally honest.