The nation s wool industry normally relies on 500 workers from New Zealand - who this year are staying at home due to border closures - to meet a surge in demand for sheep shearers every spring.
A heavyweight Australian investor believes welfare recipients and asylum seeks should be put to work on farms to help solve the country s labour shortage crisis.
Putting unemployed and older people to work could help feed regional and remote communities during the peak of the Omicron outbreak, an industry body says.
Putting unemployed and older people to work could help feed regional and remote communities during the peak of the Omicron outbreak, an industry body says.