Do farm work or lose welfare pay: Morrison   

   The Australian
   October 13, 2018

Jobseekers are being urged under a new Morrison government scheme to take up work on farms or face losing their welfare payments for up to a month.

Under the arrangements, farmers can register their job requirements, pay and conditions with the National Harvest Labour Information Service and job providers will try to find local unemployed to fill the positions.

If jobseekers don't have a reasonable excuse for not accepting the work they can have their income support benefits reduced or withdrawn for up to four weeks.


"While we're tackling the labour shortage this also ensures job seekers on taxpayer support have no excuse to refuse opportunities," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said of the scheme.

However National Farmers' Federation President Fiona Simson has slammed the government's "carrot and stick" push as a "shallow approach to a deep problem" and says industry has long called for a dedicated agricultural visa. 

"Many agricultural tasks are short-term or seasonal. Often these arrangements aren't attractive to local workers, who have ongoing financial commitments and longer term career aspirations," Ms Simson said.

Labor is also critical of the announcement with Agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon calling it a stunt to distract from broken visa promises.   

"The last thing growers need is people who don't want to be there," he said.

"This is from the bloke who introduced a backpacker tax."

ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie said she strongly opposed any policy that uses "threats to cut off basic supports" to force people to move for temporary low paid work. 

She said the plan poses a "serious risk for those already in poverty", as it could mean giving up affordable rental accommodation and the loss of financial supports from family and friends.

Mr Morrison denied the scheme introduced changes to how people could lose access to welfare payments - currently after three instances or three jobseeker demerits in six months.

He said Assistant Minister for International Development Anne Ruston would be working over the next couple of weeks to ensure any relevant changes were made to the Pacific Islander scheme.

Mr Morrison also said he would be working with the Immigration Minister David Coleman across possible changes to the working holiday visa program.

If someone (God forbid) falls off a trailer or tractor and dies, will Morriscum's government try to cover up the death (again)?

When will the unemployed ever get a fair and just increase?.   

Actually I dont have a problem with it if they live close to the farm and have transport available!

Simplistic and Dangerous

red baron wrote on Oct 13^th, 2018 at 5:54pm:


The Government knows locals will not take the work or they would have done so already....No one want's an employee who is forced into doing a job for obvious reasons....This is another scam to allow more cheap labour into Australia when locals fail to take the jobs....I wonder what new or revised visa category will be created for this scam???



The Government promoting foreign workers....

https://www.business.gov.au/people/hiring/employ-people-from-overseas

This rabble must go!!!

philperth2010 wrote on Oct 13^th, 2018 at 6:12pm:

What happened to jobsun growth

Is he offering transport and relocation costs and accommodation and guaranteeing the correct wage rate?

Sounds a lot like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge - get out there you slack-arsed bastards and grow rice... you filthy undemocratic bludging city dwellers who've got it too good.. get out there or we'll shoot you!

Morrison is more and more showing us what a total dildo he is....

Somebody take him out before he does too much harm with his genetic insanity....

How the fsck can young people look for farm work if they are forced to do pointless Work for the Dole for 25 hours a week for 6 months a year? Another useless measure that keeps unemployed young people from looking for work. Get rid of that too.

This useless government has been weighing down unemployed workers with too much compliance, and then when the inevitable effects of their compliance burdens are showing by hampered labour mobility, their answer is ... more compliance? Really?

Libtards love a bit of slave labour,  what's the bet they end up at farms libtards have a stake in

Everywhere I go there are foreigners

They stand uselessly at the entrances to most businesses

They man check-outs

They stack shelves

They work in libraries

Banks are filled with them


These were jobs held by Aussies

Since the flotsam floods of the post-war era, Aussies have been dumped unceremoniously from their jobs

and those jobs were and still are  being handed to today's endless floods

So what's been the result?

Older Aussies are thrown on the scrap-heap.  No jobs for them despite being required to submit pointless applications for jobs they have no chance of getting

90 thousand forced to Work for the Dole on schemes run mainly by charlatans

Write-up the other week about a woman who was a trained teacher with over a decade of experience, an Aussie woman.  She was placed as a worker in an Op-shop. She does not receive sick-pay or any other entitlements and when she complained about a customer who groped her, she was sent 'out the back' to sort rags.  And for that she receives less than half the minimum wage.  A teacher being trained to sort rags at the back on an Op Shop.  Sure, Morrison and Crew -- that's really going to lead to decent, life-supporting work for her out there in the real-world

Meanwhile, at a supermarket in the Inner West stood a darkly tinted male individual who apparently believes a week of stubble helps make him look approachable

A female customer called him out after he'd been staring at her for no apparent reason for several minutes.  'Stop staring at me' she said.  He approached her and denied he had been, although witnesses supported her, I being one

She asked what sort of 'security' he was supposedly providing the store or customers.  After all, he was leaning against a column, on one leg, with one had in his pocket and the other fiddling with a mobile phone

He tried to bluff his way out, saying he was not 'security'

Other customers pointed to the logo on his jacket.  It read, 'XYZ Security'.

Caught out, the lump tried to gather the tatters of his dignity and told people to have a nice day before drifting off


Where does your wife shop, Morrison and Crew? 


Yep. A nation of filthy streets and gobs of spit -- because that's what they're USED to doing in THEIR country, we're told.  So stop discriminating


Tinted gangs working in supermarkets and gabbling on in THEIR language in OUR country.  In addition to walking three abreast against female Aussie customers and expecting customers to give way


And the fake prime minister of this country ordering Aussies who are deprived of paying work every second of every day being told to accept fruit picking work while tinted newcomers are handed work in their 'own' suburbs (suburbs which used to be simply Aussie suburbs)


Does that smirking tongue-speaking lunatic really expect people's votes in a few months?

Captain Nemo wrote on Oct 14^th, 2018 at 10:33am:



Did you just dig through your dusty folder containing posts you wrote twenty-five years ago?

If that's not your excuse, then you really are out of touch

You'd be aware, surely, that in order to receive the dole, people have to submit x-number of applications per week?  And must attend x-number of interviews per week?

Only when they've satisfied those pointless exercises to the satisfaction of those holding work by processing dole applicants to ransom, may the unemployed receive the pittance known as the dole

yet the clueless like yourself seem to imagine dole receipients receive MORE THAN YOU.  And are jealous of the jet-setting lifestyle of dole recipients, right?

Yes, we see them every day in the op-shops, those wealthy dole recipients -- buying old clothes and scraps of blanket to try to hold the chill at bay.  Jet setting bastwards, right?

And the really ugly element of your post is the fact that in addition to the Saudis funding traitors to defend islam in this country ---- there are also traitorous bastwards prepared to defame fellow Aussies for a handful of coin.  And they've been making dollars --- dollars --- for decades, by lying about those dreaded dole bludging jet setters who're taking ALL that money instead of working at all those jobs WHICH DO NOT EXIST in this country

and the few which DO exist

or which are CREATED on OUR money by sell-out politicians

specifically handed to incomers of the tinted shade

even when it means (as it invariably does) sacking a reliable, experienced, hard working Aussie


so I suspect and very strongly at that

that your above post was posted

in order no one would read the post directly above it


I respect you not one iota by the way, in case that hasn't already been made clear

Its time wrote on Oct 13^th, 2018 at 6:16pm:

PZ547 wrote on Oct 14^th, 2018 at 10:42am:


Receive more than me?

Did you miss this bit? : "It is way too low BTW ..."

Please don't call it the dole ... "dole" is demeaning IMHO



My point is that there are a small percentage of bums (living on the Gold-coast for example) who do manage to "comply" with the Centrelink requirements yet somehow manage to remain on the unemployment allowance to fund their surfing lifestyle.

I'm well aware of the Centrelink requirements as my son went through that nightmare a year or so ago. Centrelink were completely hopeless BTW when it came to helping my son find work. He eventually got a job through his own efforts using SEEK. Centrelink were inept, bumbling, stupid and pathetic dweebs throughout.

How about real jobs designing and building electric cars instead of these dead end fruit picking jobs that lead to no where. Honestly is this the best the libbos can do ?

Captain Nemo wrote on Oct 14^th, 2018 at 11:27am:

Centrelink doesn't have responsibility for assisting job seekers to find work. That belongs to the Job Services Networks such as Jobactive. You won't find a more useless bunch of government-funded pricks anywhere. They are not obliged to provide any services at all. All they are required to do is compel jobseekers to attend appointments and tick boxes on screens to say the jobseeker has done so. There's no requirement for the provider to do anything at these appointments, the jobseekers are just required to attend. These networks are worse than useless: they hinder jobseekers more then they help, as the local labour shortages demonstrate.

These parasites cost $7 billion a year. Newstart costs $10 billion a year for unemployed workers.

Think about that. The Federal Budget is spending nearly as much on job services networks as is paid directly in income support payments. Anyone who wants to cut some useless public servants to save money should put these useless boxtickers at the top of a very short list.

Bam wrote on Oct 14^th, 2018 at 12:44pm:




Good idea - parasites -
put them on the dole too - let them see what it's like.

whiteknight wrote on Oct 13^th, 2018 at 4:24pm:

Bobby. wrote on Oct 14^th, 2018 at 12:52pm: