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Don't disagree broadly but shearing is a pretty highly skilled job and bloody hard work. Plus a good shearer can make $500 a day, there's just not enough of them. Doesn't really equate with picking fruit.

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Eevo

altho i agree, its not rocket science. if the govt is paying me $550 a week to sit on my bum vs 200$ a week to pick fruit, i know which one im going to do.

And there lies the problem
It all starts at the top
Handing out too much to the wrong people
Unemployed should be on benifits for 4 weeks, then put to work in the army if they want to keep drawing an income off the tax payer

Originally Posted by Tote

Don't disagree broadly but shearing is a pretty highly skilled job and bloody hard work. Plus a good shearer can make $500 a day, there's just not enough of them. Doesn't really equate with picking fruit.

Regards,
Tote

How do you know when you’re not good at something if you don’t try!!!
If your no good at shearing go and pick some fruit!!!
Their are a lot more jobs than shearing and picking fruit in rural areas, these are just the sectors the newspaper’s have hit on
With the country locked due to COVID-19 people should be doing their bit to keep the country generating the Australian dollars
Once you have residents from the city move to rural areas for work it stimulates more employment opportunities in those areas
Who knows, life may not be so bad away from the smog
(I know it’s not)

Spot on again Gav 110

I got tested for COVID yesterday [twice] - Expecting the result to be negative as I've not really gone anywhere in the last few months but wifey is working weekends in aged care and came down with a sore throat yesterday so we took the cautious option and went for the test.

Originally Posted by Gav 110

How’s about an incentive to get these people into the rural areas to work
Gav

how about they start by paying them decent wages and not ripping them off with bull**** accomodation rorts etc etc etc to claw back what they do pay

the rural / farm employers havent done themselves any favours over the last few years

no wonder it isnt a popular place to be...

You know its not easy for those to be on Job Seeker, and so many are actually on it on medical exemptions,physcially unable to work, fighting and going through the motions for a bit more in a disability pension, with absolutely no quality of life because you cannot do anything on such a small rate. Government knows this and knows that now all these lost jobs, they cannot then live on it so its been temporarily raised just to help, still no where what it might be if they were still in their jobs.
To those that are on it and job seeking, if they do not do the job seeking, they lose the payment! There are also no jobs around for those people. So the 'bluggers' as the nation so horrible thinks exist and are the worst scum of the universe, actually are a massive minority of people on welfare! It is really upsetting how awful society is towards those on welfare, and the struggles they face on it! No matter the reason they are on it. The covid suppliment is also a temporary one. Its so sad that they are all tarnished with the same brush. It is also really bad that some of these rural jobs pay below the poverty line too!

Originally Posted by Gav 110

How do you know when you’re not good at something if you don’t try!!!
If your no good at shearing go and pick some fruit!!!
Their are a lot more jobs than shearing and picking fruit in rural areas, these are just the sectors the newspaper’s have hit on
With the country locked due to COVID-19 people should be doing their bit to keep the country generating the Australian dollars
Once you have residents from the city move to rural areas for work it stimulates more employment opportunities in those areas
Who knows, life may not be so bad away from the smog
(I know it’s not)

FWIW, I can guarantee life is better away from the smog. There is no comparison whatsoever Gav.
Downside is you have to put up with narrow roads & slow traffic
the odd smokey bonfire, higher Council Rates (why?) & a few other negs.


Because every man woman & child & dog wants out of suburban life & it's problems. Problem there is that these areas start to look like Suburbia with city folk bringing their dirty urban habits with them ie. Cats, roadside rubbish etc.

It appears many close to city living areas become Dormitory Suburbs & it is happening everywhere.

cant see any Kiwi shearers going to WA this year

Btw, that will mean the breeding stock won't be contaminated by amorous Shearers with a pair of spare Welly Boots..