Well since the backpackers have stopped 'takin their jawbz' our trusty dole bludgers have less excuses to continue their parasitic ways.

But you wont see these lazy scum getting off their arses to look after themselves for a while, not while we have cradle to grave dole for the filthy freeloading carntz.


The irony is we need the tax to pay for the freeloading filth, but once we take it, the backpackers don't come for the work.


DON’T get used to cheap strawberries. Australia could be facing a looming fruit shortage due to the “disastrous” backpacker tax, South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has warned.
The controversial tax, introduced in the 2014-15 Federal Budget and set to take effect from 1 January 2017, would slug working holiday visa holders with 32.5 per cent tax on every dollar they earn.
The government appears likely to junk the widely unpopular measure after a review by the Department of Agriculture received more than 1700 submissions.
But despite Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce hinting a decision was coming within the next few weeks, Senator Xenophon warns the damage has already been done due to the “social media grapevine”.
Farmers around the country who rely on seasonal workers have already reported a sharp drop-off in the number of applicants, many of whom have opted to travel to New Zealand instead, where they would be taxed at around half the proposed 32.5 per cent rate.
“Normally by now, we would have about 1500 applicants but, as of today, we only have 600 applicants, then only a third who apply will accept a job,” Reid Fruits owner Tim Reid told The Mercury.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/thousands-of-tonnes-of-fruit-to-rot-o...

If that's the case, then it will be very interesting to see what happens in the summer of 2017 here in our area, of orchardists, vineyards, strawberry growers etc.
They all rely on their seasonal pickers that come in to work.
It's not easy work, it's out in the hot sun, physical work. Then in the packing sheds, standing on the feet all day.
They are paid by the hour, and makes it worth it, but with this tax, taking one third, will not be worth the bother.

I ask, why fix something that isn't broken?
Oh yeah, it's the Government that's broke. 

Usually, anyone on newstart allowance (or the dole as some put it), have to now work 2 days a week voluntarily, if they want to keep that allowance.
Maybe the seasonal backpack pickers will be replaced by those on newstart allowance? But that's only 2 days a week.
And I can't see how anyone without any experience in the fields, can cope with that, or give good results the orchardists and farmers need.

Well, here's to seeing how it all pans out for Summer of 2017 and thereafter.
This will send the farmers broke, just like the stupid Government is.

Fuzzball wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2016 at 12:30pm:


Now, now, must not be nasty.

Its hard work to drag himself away from his computer every day to make his bed and that putting out the garbage every week is almost inhuman, he must take hours to drag himself that far.

with nearly 1,000000 unemployed in this country how could anyone defend backpackers coming in to do our work for us?

if I can't work tax free in my own country then why should outsiders come into MY country and work tax free??

dole bludgers... especially long term and those little mish rats that hang around macca's all day... should be put in the fields and have Big Bubba cracking the whip on them 12 hours a day... 

Bobby. wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 6:58am:



I have already done that and now I don't have to.

And if you have PROOF that any farmer is under-paying or mistreating their workers then report them otherwise stop being a hysterical little b1tch about it.

Valkie wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 6:15am:


He gets out of bed for a pizz, his garbage just gets in his way when he goes to collect his CentreLink payment....he doesn't even switch his computer (at his bedside) off......

Sitting in Parliament putting public money away for their retirement...

Sitting at their work desk and whining about their 'right' to get PPL and kid's money when they're on $150k a year....

Lobbying their mates in government for another company tax reduction or handout in the billions ....

Wondering how they'll ever make ends meet when their childcare payment cuts out due to excess income......

Running their business and working out how much tax they can avoid......

Plotting to put their money into the Caymans like Mal so as to avoid tax.....

That's where the dole bludgers are.... they're all around us, every day.

Is Mr Neck trying to be smart?

He needs to try harder, it ain't working....