Statistics show there are more job vacancies now than before COVID hit, but many unemployed refuse to fill the vacancies. I ve walked the talk on this topic when I left family behind and moved from Queensland to remote Western Australia to take up a job in the mines. But many of today s unemployed obviously won t move to get work, even with attractive financial government support on top of JobSeeker. Australia has relied too heavily on backpackers and Pacific Islanders to do seasonal work and with COVID stopping this source of labour, regional Australia is now in trouble. We really have reached a sad place when we need people from other countries to do work some Australians see as too hard or beneath them.