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This aerial photo taken on Aug. 7, 2018, shows cattle on a dry paddock in the drought-hit area of Quirindi in New South Wales. A crippling drought is ravaging parts of Australia, decimating herds and putting desperate farmers under intense financial and emotional strain, with little relief in sight. Glenn Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
A dairy farmer from New South Wales took to social media saying he’s being paid $2.46 an hour—a fraction of the country’s minimum wage of $18.93 an hour.
Speaking from his farm in Kyogle, northern NSW, Shane Hickey, 42, expressed his frustration at the earnings he’d received for July in a video first posted Aug. 14 on Facebook.
