A two-week-long union picket at the Port of Melbourne is causing millions of dollars’ worth of prime agricultural product to rot, Member for Western Victoria Simon Ramsay says.
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Among the goods reportedly sitting at the dock are 11 tonnes of beef, 25 tonnes of milk powder, 170 tonnes of cheese, 200 tonnes of wheat grain and fruit, cotton and hay.
On behalf of farmers and exporters, Mr Ramsay urged Premier Daniel Andrews to step in and end the blockade.
Victoria was Australia’s largest good and fibre exporter accounting for 79 per cent of Australia's dairy exports, 55 per cent of wool exports, 46 per cent of horticultural exports and 38 per cent of prepared food exports, but Mr Andrews had said nothing about the blockade’s impact, he said.