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Labor pushes to boost Pacific workers as Joyce says some Australians ‘bung lazy’
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- One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce says backpackers should be quarantined from cuts because some Australians “are just bung lazy” and won’t do the same jobs.S1S2
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Labor pushes to boost Pacific workers as Joyce says some Australians ‘bung lazy’
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce says backpackers should be quarantined from cuts because some Australians “are just bung lazy” and won’t do the same jobs.
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Published Sep 28, 2026
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- One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce says backpackers should be quarantined from cuts because some Australians “are just bung lazy” and won’t do the same jobs.S1S2
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