Thread: Williams unemployment rate

Hmmm. I'd like to meet up with a few backpackers myself....

Originally Posted by p38arover

When I retire in a few weeks time, I may want to travel and work part-time around Oz. Will I have any trouble getting work?

I could probably get you a job doing proofreading Ron

Sounds good! I was offered such work once before after I corrected a website. I didn't hear any more from them.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Thats because its not "unemployment" if your on disability, parental welfare, Austudy etc

The point I was trying to make is that caravan parks with high percentages of permanent residents have become welfare ghettos. The residents are there in most cases because they can't afford better. However many like the lifestyle. Minimal housework involved in keeping a caravan and annex tidy although plenty don't bother. No yard to keep up, no bathroom or toilet to clean, etc.

As to "employment" and "unemployment", all Centrelink clients are encouraged to look for work as they are always better off financially if they have some work. Even Disability Pensioners are encouraged to work. The trick is getting them to declare their earnings truthfully. Very few "disabled" people have no capacity whatsoever to work. The pension is granted if they are considered by medical opinion to not have a capacity to work more than twenty hours per week for the next two years. 20% disability on the laid down scale is the minimum disability level to be considered for grant of pension.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

I could probably get you a job doing proofreading Ron

Newspapers have not had proof readers for decades. They disappeared along with linotype operators and mechanics upon the death of hot metal typesetting.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Sorry Clean
try again!!!!
GOOGLE WHAT????
MYTHICAL WHAT????
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT SA WATER!!!!!
Andrew

Just before reading your post. there was a bit of a doco on TV, about some station that gets backpackers in to work because they cant get aussies.

its a crock and this is why
1 if there ever is a job in the"out back" they only want to pay peanuts.
2 Google, seek and the papers dont have jobs like these advertised.
3 there was a job last month advertised for a care taker handy person for a remote school and drug center. live in, accommodation relocation paid 6 weeks holiday with air fairs paid. the add was on seek for 3 days and they received 150 applications.


so to say you cant get workers is a crock, or eather you are paying peanuts or there is something else, in short it just dont ring true.

The figures are a bit misleading. The reason these towns have low unemployment is because no one stays there. They all move to Perth / Bunbury etc and increse their unemployment rate. Most farmers kids do just that.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Sounds good! I was offered such work once before after I corrected a website. I didn't hear any more from them

...period?