Barnaby Joyce says 'adventurous spirit' will lure overseas workers to Australia, despite travel warnings

Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce says significant travel warnings will not exacerbate worker shortages and stop people from coming to Australia.Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce does not believe travel warnings from the US and EU for Australia will deter international workers

He was in the Goulburn Valley on Thursday, attending International Dairy Week in Tatura and visiting Shepparton Foodshare.a fee rebate to students or backpackers who come back to AustraliaIt is an attempt to help prop up a number of sectors facing worker shortages, including the embattled agriculture industry.

Asked about the new travel warnings, Mr Joyce said he did not believe they would dissuade international students or backpackers. While there had been no positive cases of COVID-19 among Mr Conti's staff to date, he anticipated the coming weeks would be particularly challenging."Next week will test us all."Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce visited Shepparton Foodshare on Thursday to announce $600,000 for a new building for the local service.

This guy would risk the lives of overseas men and women who are normally the sole source of income for their families.

Getting traded like crap and not even paid minimum wage. What an adventure!

He has the kind of face you’d never tire of punching

Poverty and exploitation

Lol - best adventure ever; get covid in Australia and then enter our collapsing hospital system

Encourage Australians to do the jobs by not immediately taking away the dole and making them no better off when they work. Any dole can be assessed when the tax return is assessed like any other taxable income

Come for the casual racism, stay for the workplace exploitation

How about making business pay a proper living wage and give people back their penalty rates. Stop exploiting people to make ceos richer.. the system is broken

Pugnacious prick

'adventurous spirit' will lure overseas workers to Australia. The adventure of being used, undervalued/underpaid & threatened by dodgy employers...what an adventure; like Tomb Raider

The prospect of your visa being cancelled at the border makes it even more enticing

Fairly sure oz reputation has taken a battering

Barnaby Joyce is an idiot the same as the rest of them. Young people know when a place is to be avoided, such as lack of support when things radically change. As a parent, how would you have liked to find your child stranded in a country that didn't give them money to exist or go

Nah still not coming mate. People have real world problems where they live. Labour shortages all around the world. We are not unique in needing labour. It’s not the field of dreams mate had we kept covid out maybe not now.

Good luck getting to come and pick fruit. Conditions and pay were dismal to begin with. Does Barnaby_Joyce reckon things will be any different now? Or so does the Lib/Nat government think people from overseas are just stupid people who can’t get work anywhere else?

LNP only welcoming foreigners for economic convenience.They exploit them, refuse to plan and spend on infrastructure and housing when pop growth escalates. This has been their hallmark for decades, Worst xenophobia then sets in and they bow to right wing extremists voters

The govt should be sued if any foreigner gets covid

Covid dodger lodgers

Oh come on !! We all know this man is on another planet, who takes any notice of him. Remember the Visas last time, men without driving licences driving semi-trailers, one even trying to do a u-turn on a busy highway, is that 'adventurous spirit' ? Will they have a Union, wages ?

Who is the guy pretending to be a fat tablecloth?

Will backpackers be required to operate forklifts?

Fs

Maybe he should've suggested Milk and Cookies.

bring in the slave labour

That hat...and that guts!

Does he mean rum, vodka or scotch - he should know he looks like he's had a heap of em all.

Also Barnaby Joyce:

Overseas workers might be adventurous but they will be coming to a nation that has been utterly emasculated scottyfrommarketing growsomeballs

The WORLD will have a labour shortage. Where will they come from?

Barnaby, remember at the beginning of the COVID crisis when the coalition completely shafted the backpackers & the International students? They do. Now that we are desperate for their help, due to coalition mismanagement, how do you think they will respond? Two words, ends in off

Wasn’t this how John Howard sold the war in Iraq?

Our “adventurous spirit” (and love of internationals) summed up by Scomo

Beam or Bundy?

A content warning should be posted with anything Barnaby says. Honestly 🤦‍♀️

Who said blackbirding was dead?

As usual stupid politician talks out of his arse. Joyce has no backing for this statement. It's irrational and irrelevant.

Oh lord give me the confidence of a sub par man. His shitty government denied international students and non residents any support and left many of them depending on soup kitchens and other forms of charity. Yet here he is thinking people will just come running back 🙄

😂

are the backpackers going to be children ?

If coming to Australia while case numbers go through the roof is 'adventurous spirit', they're unlikely to be a particularly clever variety of traveller. So should we expect rules on vaccination status to change?

You lost me with 'Barnaby Joyce says'.

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