School leavers should spend their gap years picking fruit, bipartisan committee urges

School leavers who spend a gap year picking fruit could get a discount on their university loans under a plan put forward by a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry.

Liberal, Nationals and Labor members of the committee endorsed proposals in its interim report including the idea of a "Gap Year at Home" program that would encourage school and university graduates to spend time doing agricultural and horticultural work.Committee chair Julian Leeser, a Liberal MP, said with far fewer jobs available in industries such as hospitality, following the harvest trail was a good alternative.

For the next year, the committee recommends, unemployed people who move to the country should be given one-off payments to help with accommodation and moving expenses and be allowed to keep their JobSeeker benefits even as they are being paid for farm work.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

nickbonyhady The clever country would develop fruit picking machinery, not rely on low wage labour.

nickbonyhady Aaahh so this is why uni fees have skyrocketed!!.............

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nickbonyhady ha ha ha this idea is going to be such a success, isn’t it! 😉😉😉

nickbonyhady Could Fairfax maybe be more accurate; govt floats slave labour for local uni students

nickbonyhady Offset cost by offering no discount for 'full upfront' payment.

nickbonyhady Good idea.

nickbonyhady kibbutz down under 😏

nickbonyhady Why don't farmers just pay a decent wage and then students can just pay off their own debts, no government involvement required? I don't get it.

nickbonyhady Beers, cones and a bit of sly sex. Sounds great. Any chance Paul Keating can announce this for the over 60's as well?

nickbonyhady Fruit & vegetable pickers tend to be highly exploited. Paid by the pound, not by the hour. Things like strawberries/asparagus/mushroom are very labor intensive & some crops (cherries/apples/nuts) have a very high rate of fall injuries. These factors should be taken into account

nickbonyhady How about greedy farmers just pay people a decent wage rather than ripping off backpackers and then they shouldn't have any problem attracting workers. Hourly rates with overtime. And unions.

nickbonyhady FFS

nickbonyhady Yeah but who are the farmers going to exploit/ abuse then?!

nickbonyhady This idea should be extended to include options of Military Service, Land Army, Community & Aged Care or Environmental Activities. These all can then lead into highly subsidized University studies.

nickbonyhady Just note the faces on the picture above, more than likely Asian backpackers...they are what the growers employ near solely with the government paying a good part of their wages....you won't see many Aussies out there picking because growers do not get wage subsidies for them.

nickbonyhady Another policy that favours higher social eco who ar more likely to be able to afford to go to uni.

nickbonyhady Completely misses the point of going to Uni 🤦‍♀️ plenty of dole bludgers getting money for nothing ...

nickbonyhady that's so sick great job guys good work the kids are gonna love this 👍

nickbonyhady Whose brainwave is that.... Twiggy Forrest? Pol Pot Pete Costello?

nickbonyhady antdish11 Don’t mind the idea in principle?

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