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Article: Working holiday makers in Australia: food security, climate change, and the backpacker tax
Title | Working holiday makers in Australia: food security, climate change, and the backpacker tax |
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Authors | |
Keywords | harvest trail backpacking agriculture vulnerability tourism migrant labour |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Citation | Geographical Research, 2018, v. 56, n. 1, p. 107-112 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2017 Institute of Australian Geographers This commentary considers an often overlooked contribution to food security in Australia—the labour of working holiday makers. Their ability to act as a flexible and mobile temporary workforce is essential to the maintenance of the Australian agricultural industry. Previously, no tax was payable on income below $18,200, but a 2015 proposal to increase their tax rate sparked a vigorous political debate and so revealed their importance to the agricultural industry. A decline in backpacker numbers would cause agriculture to shrink to cope with smaller workforces. But the effects of climate change are expected to further shrink agricultural areas as extreme events and hotter temperatures impact crops, livestock, and the productivity of agricultural workers. Issues that appear manageable when viewed in isolation, such as increases in the tax rate on working holiday makers, become more problematic when viewed in conjunction with other impacts affecting agriculture. Thus, the ‘backpacker tax’ risks making food security harder to maintain at a time when Australia's agricultural system is already vulnerable to climate change. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260237 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.675 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Iaquinto, Benjamin Lucca | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-12T02:00:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-12T02:00:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Geographical Research, 2018, v. 56, n. 1, p. 107-112 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-5863 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260237 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2017 Institute of Australian Geographers This commentary considers an often overlooked contribution to food security in Australia—the labour of working holiday makers. Their ability to act as a flexible and mobile temporary workforce is essential to the maintenance of the Australian agricultural industry. Previously, no tax was payable on income below $18,200, but a 2015 proposal to increase their tax rate sparked a vigorous political debate and so revealed their importance to the agricultural industry. A decline in backpacker numbers would cause agriculture to shrink to cope with smaller workforces. But the effects of climate change are expected to further shrink agricultural areas as extreme events and hotter temperatures impact crops, livestock, and the productivity of agricultural workers. Issues that appear manageable when viewed in isolation, such as increases in the tax rate on working holiday makers, become more problematic when viewed in conjunction with other impacts affecting agriculture. Thus, the ‘backpacker tax’ risks making food security harder to maintain at a time when Australia's agricultural system is already vulnerable to climate change. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Geographical Research | - |
dc.subject | harvest trail | - |
dc.subject | backpacking | - |
dc.subject | agriculture | - |
dc.subject | vulnerability | - |
dc.subject | tourism | - |
dc.subject | migrant labour | - |
dc.title | Working holiday makers in Australia: food security, climate change, and the backpacker tax | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1745-5871.12261 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85031088463 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 308049 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 56 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 107 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 112 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1745-5871 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000424830900010 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1745-5863 | - |