Consider it akin to jury service – except you get to wear a rugged Akubra and revealing khaki shorts.
Regional labour shouldn’t just be left to the sun-burned backpackers looking to spend a few more months binge-drinking on our beaches. All Australian citizens should do a stint in the country, too.
There are new regulations for employing Pacific Islander workers on farms now, too. A recently implemented policyAs a looney, leftie, union man, I’m delighted we’re looking out for the worker here. But some farmers are nervous about using such a rigid scheme. All sorts of things besides weather can delay work on a farm: broken equipment, shipment delays, bad hangovers.
Much like jury duty, all our names would get mixed in a bingo cage, drawn and then the lucky winner gets notified of the dates they’re needed out bush. There would be disqualifying factors, of course, like health issues, childcare, or being an occasional contributor toThink of the great pairings you could create with city and country jobs, too. Parking inspectors can work on cattle stations to make sure the cows aren’t on the same pasture for too long. Nightclub bouncers can be on pest control.
But do you think 50-year-old Patricia from Kensington is going to put up with living in squalor for the duration of her farm duty? Absolutely not. There’d better be some tasteful curtains up in that corrugated iron bungalow. We shouldn’t subject hopeful foreigners to conditions we wouldn’t stand for ourselves.
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