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Overseas workers arriving from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu will touch down in Brisbane tonight and quarantine in Grantham to provide âdesperateâ help to the agriculture industry struggling with severe labour shortages.
A representative from the Grantham Farmworkers Lodge confirmed 160 overseas seasonal workers were expected to arrive at the Grantham Farmworkers Lodge on Friday night.
FIP Group CEO Brad Seagrott also confirmed the workers would stay and work in Queensland once the 14-day quarantine was complete.
âWe are supporting the agricultural industry that are short on labour,â he said.
âA large percentage of them are (staying in the Lockyer) and they will all stay in Queensland, but our businesses is one of two that have people coming in on the plane.â
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News10NBC updated this story to correct Christopher Pate s age from 34 to 43. A Rochester Police Department press release incorrectly listed his age as 34.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Christopher Pate, a Rochester man who was assaulted by a police officer during an arrest in 2018, is facing new charges after police say a woman died from injuries she sustained during an assault and robbery.
The incident happened on April 7, 2021, at a hotel on Mt. Read Boulevard.
Police say 51-year-old Alicia Saladyga was assaulted and robbed in her hotel room. At the time, she was hospitalized, but her condition worsened and she succumbed to her injuries on April 22.
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Subscriber only AS the rain continued to tumble, the Ipswich cricket competition s leading all-rounder was feeling optimistic. While the ongoing showers might mean some or all of this weekend s Cricket Ipswich grand final play could be washed out, Mick Sippel was upbeat. We ve had about 60-70mm across the area, which has been nice, over the last few days, Sippel said. The cricket stalwart is a national manager for Terranova Seeds, having previously been the Lockyer Valley Growers Association president. It s still raining nicely now . . . mostly happy farmers I m dealing with. However, Sippel said the region had nowhere near enough rain to get the creeks running.
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