Thousands of jobs are available for unemployed Australians in regional Queensland and other parts of the country currently experiencing an acute labour shortage brought on by closed borders.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson joined local growers in Ayr this week where farmers were at a loss to what more they could do to encourage Australians to move to regional farming areas.

“Border closures have reduced the availability of overseas workers and this has opened enormous job opportunities for unemployed Australians,” Senator Hanson said.

“In Queensland, it’s been estimated there will be a shortage this year of about 9000 workers in agricultural industries alone. Many farmers are concerned their produce will go to waste because there are not enough people to pick, pack and process it.

“Before the pandemic, a lot of seasonal agricultural jobs in Australia were usually taken by backpackers or workers brought to Australia under programs like the Pacific Labour Scheme."

"The industry has relied strongly on this imported labour despite there being hundreds of thousands of unemployed Australians perfectly capable of doing the work."

“Relocation costs are no longer a barrier to Australians seeking these jobs because state and Federal governments now have financial support in place to help unemployed people meet these expenses.

“The Queensland Government provides up to $1500 in assistance for eligible people relocating for agricultural work like picking fruit, and the Australian Government provides up to $6000 in assistance for eligible people relocating to a regional area for work. That’s a lot of support.

“There are advantages in living and working in regional areas, such as lower accommodation costs and house prices. They haven’t experienced pandemic lockdowns as often as our cities have.”

“When people are concerned about housing affordability, how can you beat buying a house in Ayr for less than $200,000 and be guaranteed work all year round?”

Senator Hanson said governments needed to examine more ways to get unemployed Australians into Australian jobs instead of importing labour.

“There’s been some uptake of these relocation incentives, but they’re not meeting all of the demand for seasonal agricultural workers,” she said.

"It’s about time Channel Seven rethink next year’s filming of farmer wants a wife and consider a new program called “Farmer Wants a Worker”.

“Governments need to examine why these programs are not as effective as they could be, and start getting tough on lazy, long term unemployed Australians who think welfare can be treated as a lifestyle.”

“Farmers are paying top dollar for workers, so they deserve to see productivity.”

“If the carrot approach is not working, some form of stick approach should also be considered. It makes no sense to spend taxpayer dollars on importing overseas workers to meet a labour shortage while paying unemployment benefits to Australians capable of doing the work.”

PALASZCZUK’S SECTOR-WIDE ‘QR CODE’ ORDER ARRIVES LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

By One Nation MP For Mirani Stephen Andrew
 

From 1am on 9 July, Queenslanders must log in electronically or scan a QR code before they can set foot into a greatly expanded range of venues, buildings, and businesses across the State. 

The QR codes Directive, will now cover virtually every area of human activity in Queensland.

It will soak up huge swathes of data to do with Queenslanders’ working, eating, shopping, holidaying and socialising lives.  It will determine whether they get to watch a movie, see a play or work out the gym.

All sorts of highly sensitive information concerning your day-to-day activities, routines, habits and behaviour will be collected, including intensely private details around the medical services you use, the social and political clubs you belong to and the church, temple or synagogue you attend.

It will record how often you go to the bottle shop, gun dealer, pawn broker, union meeting or massage parlour … the list of previously private information about your life that will now be ‘knowable’, is practically unlimited.

It remains to be seen whether authorities will be able to resist the massive temptation of accessing this rich data reservoir. 

Already we have heard that Queensland Police have had access to it for their investigations, but what about all the other ‘stakeholder’ groups who will be desperate to get their hands on it –banks, credit card, insurance companies, ATO, family court lawyers, political think tanks, NGOs, to name just a few.

Many experts also see the dangers of an increasing tendency for people to ‘self-impose’ restrictions on their own movements and activities over time.

As a ‘self-policing’ tool, the QR code offers untold benefits for government looking to change or modify their citizens behaviour and activities.

Whether this behaviour or activities are perfectly lawful and legitimate ones, won’t matter.

People are going to think very carefully about where they go, what they do and who they associate with from this point on.

Those who previously might have joined a farmers’ protest or anti-abortion group, will think twice before they do so again.

The chilling effect this could have on our society and people’s way of life is alarming.

Because of this new rule the way Queenslanders live and interact with each other is going to change in many subtle and unexpected ways.

It will have happened through the issuing of a simple health ‘directive’, or decree, with no parliamentary scrutiny, no public discussion or debate and no legislation passed.

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Thanks’ to Stephen’s hard work securing over 10,000 signatures for his petition against Queensland Labor’s controversial emergency power laws,  Queensland’s state parliament will be forced to have a full and frank debate on issues surrounding the legislation.

If you are a Queensland resident and you have yet to sign Stephen’s petition you can do so by following the link below:

ALBANESE OUT OF TOUCH WITH AGED CARE WORKERS’ VACCINE FEARS

Despite Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese public claim that he has never met an aged care worker that didn’t want the vaccine, the office of One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts’ has received around 1000 emails and calls from aged care workers all over Australia who do not want the COVID jab.

“Mr Albanese needs to widen his net and meet more aged care workers since I know there are hundreds of workers who are deeply distressed and terrified at having to get the vaccine,” Senator Roberts said.

“The opposition leader is conveniently ignoring any dissenting voices against the vaccine and his statement is misleading.”

Many of these emails explain how people are being forced to choose between their jobs or the jab, because this vaccine has been made mandatory and they are in fear of the vaccine’s side-affects.  People are already walking away from their jobs in the aged care sector. 

 “People are being confronted with a loss of liberty and now a loss of a job and it is unconstitutional that we are making them choose,” Senator Roberts said.

“Emails from hospital staff tell of the serious side-effects including death in healthy people, and the fact it never makes the news. “

“There are many Australians who are literally terrified to be rounded up for this mandatory vaccination.” 

“Mr Albanese’s office will be better informed over the next few days as I have written to the hundreds of aged care workers who have contacted my office and suggested they email Mr Albanese and bring him up to date.”