'It's good work, it's good pay': Young folk urged to ease farm labour shortage

‘It’s good work, it’s good pay’: Young folk urged to ease farm labour shortage
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Young Aussies have been urged to apply for a job in the bush, amid predictions that Queensland will soon have a massive shortage of 9000 farm workers.
International border closures as a result of COVID-19 have shut out backpackers and other migrant workers, with warnings that fruit and vegetables are being left to rot, while grocery prices could soar.
Isabelle Devine and Jack Murday run a chilli and paw paw farm in Mossman, far north Queensland.

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