The real cost of Australia’s worker shortage crisis | Four Corners
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- Australia is in dire need of workers.
From healthcare and teaching, to farms and the factory floor, the country is in the grip of a national labour shortage.
Regional towns like Griffith, in central NSW, are crying out for more workers while those still in jobs struggle to shoulder the burden.
Across the country, 470,900 jobs remain unfilled and job vacancies have jumped 40 per cent in the last year.
The federal government has promised to speed up Australia’s visa processing system to bring in more foreign workers, but there’s a massive backlog to work through: almost 70,000 applications for temporary and permanent skilled visas alone.
Four Corners investigates what’s behind this crisis, and the financial, physical and emotional toll it’s taking.
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No offense to those who are having issues but I was a while ago one of those fruit pickers. Picking oranges. What a coincidence.
The ugly truth is that this is a tough job. You are all day left to your own devices in the field.
There is no safety. Fall from the ladder , tough luck. Forgot your water, too bad! No food! Too bad as well.
No toilets.
Let's no talk about the bad pay either. I was getting $22 per bin. A bin is big plastic container that can hold around 300 kilos of oranges. It takes you about an hour and half to fill.
So most days I made around $88 because by the time you reach the 4th or 5th bin you are shattered.
Did you know that orange trees have needles? By the time I was done working on the farm, my arms had scars everywhere. Gloves are not provided. Your picking bag is not provided. You have to buy your own picking attire.
Oh and worst of all, everyone in town knows you are a fruit picker so they jack up the price of everything to squeeze every last dime out of you. Case an point when i bought my picking bag, i paid $90 to get it. Only one shop it town sold them. Talk about a rip off. And when you leave, you can choose to sell it back to them for less than $20.
These bags were then rented to even more unfortunate people who could not afford to buy their own bags outright.
What about accommodation? You had to stay in hostel or on an approved camping ground who had a business deal with the farmers(kickbacks) . Should you choose to move out and find another accommodation, you would suddenly be removed from shifts and not get any work. Thus not being able to complete your mandatory 90 days quota to get your second year visa.
Same as the picking bag, my rent for my bare-bones camping spot went up 30% after 6 weeks just because. Where could I go? Ther was nowhere to go. No way to escape. So i paid.
I wont even get into the problem of actually getting paid which sometimes could take weeks. I am not even going to talk about the sexual harassment towards women that I have witnessed and heard through the grapevine.
So you want to find people to pick your trees? Pay them. And treat people with dignity and respect just like you would like anyone else to treat you.
When I was picking fruit I was just a number, a walking wallet and after working my butt off for 90 days I only had one wish, to get the hell away from that place as quickly as possible.
I love Australia, but the farmers, they only have themselves to blame for this problem.
Shameful sorry this happened...
Yup. I heard about this happening so much.
Thanks for enlightening others
Thank you for sharing the reality
And the way in early November I really wanted to apply for the fruit picking jobs. What stopped me was the Visa requirements. Am so sorry you underwent such a horrid experience.
People can't fnd anywhere to live. How do they expect people to move to a job if they have to literally live in a tent because rents are either unaffordable or non existent. They should have mentioned this more in the story because its a huge factor, especially in the regions.
that especially true for agriculture and fruit picker, they expect you to spend hundreds to travel there without knowing if you'll land the job or where to live.
I'm in the US, northern California. We are having similar issues here. Housing, real estate,land is very expensive. Hiring signs are up everywhere. I wonder where the workers have gone? We do have a lot of agriculture here, in my county the traditional crops were pears, walnuts and wine grapes. Now we can add legal cannabis as well. ( there's always been illegal cannabis). As you can imagine, the wineries are better off, and they have generations of workers from the same families as well as seasonal laborers. What some have done here, is banded together on building projects for their workers. Here in town we have I think 3 apartment complexes solely for agricultural labor. Buses come at dawn and pick up workers to take them to their location, bringing them back ay the end of the day. The orchards and ranches used to have casual housing on site, but they were substandard for the most part. We've also had decimating wildfires, you may have read about, that destroyed this housing as well as entire neighborhoods. This brings it to crisis point, as all these people need somewhere to live. Permits to build on your own land are extremely expensive and the process is convoluted and time prohibitive. I am beyond lucky to have a property wth 20 acres and I would love to be able to supply housing for someone. But with the permitting process and tax ramifications, I don't think it'll happen. We are having trouble getting and retaining professionals for our schools, police, firefighters, and medical services. All due to housing. It's such a beautiful place, that people come from all over the world to visit and vacation, so that many homeowners have turned their properties into vacation rentals, thereby shrinking the available housing. We have entire neighborhoods that are ghost towns with no permanent residents. Just checking in from California.
And no practical way to save money to buy a house for middle class and lower employment after expenses. And if you got kids forget it.
House prices and rents are high because of immigration. Wages are low because of immigration. Albo just increased immigration, so the ABC won't mention it because it will make Albo look bad and the ABC are the propaganda arm of the ALP.
Exactly what we found when travelling through QLD. Many employers had the same story that younger people had nowhere affordable to live. Many houses set up as holiday rentals and NOT available for permanent renters.
Now Four Corners, tell the rest of the story - you have to be a doctor to AFFORD to move to Griffith. Nobody is moving there to pick fruit, serve coffee or work in childcare when even the cheapest house in town is 600K+. It is too expensive to move most anywhere in regional Australia. A home in a country town is now just as overpriced as the big cities.
Yes I just looked up real estate website. It's expensive. And those in the real estate industry love to brag about booming prices. You reap what you sew. I did not expect much of an honest analysis from Australias corporate state media anyway. I bet Adam and the tv crew have a 30 year mortgage to pay off too.
@Mayor McCheese The Four Corners story inpart covered that, speaking to local MP Helen Dalton about it!
How is $600k expensive for Griffith? That is half the price of a cheap in Sydney, 40-50% cheaper than Wollongong and Newcastle
@@Jopacob Sydney is ABSURDLY overpriced. I'm not sure where you come from, but to the average person who doesn't have a property portfolio, 600k is a huge amount money they will never have in their lives. And they will certainly not earn it working in a pub or teaching grade 4.
Also, these medical clinics are businesses and want to make as much profit as possible. They just want to bring in cheap labour from overseas rather than pay Aussie doctors.
I quit my career of 26 years in the luxury hotel industry. Being pushed, unappreciated and the realisation I was just a number. The public were ruder than ever before. I would wake up in the morning dreading how much abuse I would receive today. . The company filling the property over and over even though we did not have the staff to manage it. Disgusting. Every single experienced hotelier I know has left. Now I have social anxiety, I stock shelves in a supermarket at night to avoid the public. (I really enjoy the work). 3 years ago I would never have dreamed this would happen.
I know... It is terrible out there.
I do believe part of the scamdemic plan was to drive people to this
Why did this happen? Have we failed in our school education in promoting empathy to others?
Even my son who's ditching the screwed up education system says he refuses to work with the public. Too savage. feel for exhausted workers I see daily putting up with abuse.
Josh the policies of the Government has destroyed many lives
Let me put it this way. No one wants to get a 3 year degree so that they can get paid 23 dollars an hour with a huge amount of responsibility.
Agreed. I've seen many international students do that tho, but now the problem is no one wants to come to Australia to study as Australia has significantly increased uni fees , visa fees and cost of living. 15 years ago an international student needed AUD $50,000 but now it is over $120,000
Supply and demand. Mass immigration forces wages down and that’s why people don’t want to work in those jobs so the corporations just say more immigrants! Which puts the cost of living up more and the pressure on wages down more. It’s a Ponzi spiral that benefits no one but short term investors and immigrants!
@@neoanderzGood - why should international students get benefits of Australian education cheaper than locals and then expect to stay too and bring their families who cost the taxpayer far more?
@@mogznwaz did you not watch the video? Look what has happened? Who said anything about giving them benefits?
@@mogznwaz No international students pay 500-600% more fee than locals, which is the biggest revenue for Australians.
Australian Workers have propped up the corporate profits with little real wage growth. I for one worked for a US construction company in Australia working 70 hr a week until I was put in hospital into intensive care for work stress related hart issues. The site I was working on was remote 1000 km from home. This company didn't even send anyone to ensure I had a change of clothing from my work cloth. I was dumped and forgotten until a work colleague noticed I was not at work and started asking question. The company didn't even notify my next of kin. The American manager i had at the time showed no regard for his staff only for production and his won position in the company. Note event his boss also an American showed similar traits. It has been 8 years since this occurrence and I still suffer stress issues. I was pushed out of my position and have found it hard to find work since. At the time Australia’s worker shortage resulted in the exploitation of 457 visas allowing these so called professional managers to come to Australia from the US. We have a worker shortage because the coalition government over the last 10 years has not supported skills training of Australia to fill the position. Further employers and corporate have only look a profits and not succession planing. I have sympathy for the workers but no sympathy employers and corporate as they have created a psychopathic culture in workplaces at the deportment of there employees.
Well said. Training has been neglected, and what I pick up from this story is that a business may offer 150% more money but scrutinise their applicant because ultimately they don't want to hire at inflated rates, only to say they "offered" it but nobody was good enough.
Translating:
Always advertising - we rely on word of mouth
Shortage due to no backpackers - we have to exploit workers to turn a profit because our business model is broken and should have automated our processing years ago but haven't because it was too expensive.
What an absolute mess this country is becoming.
What's the corporate tax rate? (I could look it up, )but Neo liberalistic economics employ low corporate tax rates. This tax is used for legal tax avoidance by offsetting it by company investment in staff, training, equipment and the training of new people and an effort to grow the business. All times before the Great Depression and after was used to constantly grow an economy but with decent wages and salaries. The Great Depression occurred when a president cut tax rates deeply to unsustainable levels for public funding and the free for the rich to speculate on the stock market occurred.
It all started to go rotten with Reagan and Thatcher and the equivalents in NZ with Douglas and co and the 80's in Australia? What happened in Australia?
Public entities got sold off for cheap and the for the highest price auction system for energy. Purposely complicated but fake, to bamboozle the general public!
Bad policy can take years to roll out the damage and likewise to repair it.
Are there too many jobs that are really just fake jobs- meaning unnecessary bureaucratic and compliance jobs that suck up workers? Yanno, the company I was with got amalgamated into a larger corporation and the management staff just B-A-L-LOONED! I am not kidding. Governmental compliances for one.
And the government from Scummo, forcing any unemployed to take what they've long set up working conditions.
Even Aussie managers do this as well I don't think it's the nationality but the culture of these companies they just want to make money at our expense hope you will find a job soon
American here. Accounting background. Fomer business owner. Come to Oz because I've heard there is a massive worker shortage and it's an interesting place. Paperwork took ages to process. Land in Sydney. Rent is exorbitant. Cost of living is high. Pay is relatively low compared to the states. Apply to 60 jobs in various industries. Never get a call back from any of them. Leave the country. Haven't looked back.
I didn't fly across the world to pick fruit and wait tables for minimum wage.
Ah yes, the "lucky" country. Bollocks.
I'm also accounting background but I hated it too. Turned to truck driving - much better
Travelling to many regional parts of Australia this year we found there was insufficient permanent accommodation for potential workers. They won't come if there's nowhere to live.
You can fit nearly 17 Philippinos into one shipping container I don't see the problem
Maybe this is the real reason for the delay in issuing visas. Once a few mention there is no housing they may turn back.
@@waitawhileexplorer3904 could be, but I was thinking of people who live in this country already.
@@lachlank.8270 and see an outbreak of tuberculosis
@@hunterhealer8022 hey its more money for the drug companies and creates health industry jobs! Bless that 8 month 4 drug TB treatment regimen
I worked as a nurse in Aged Care, doing doubles and days on end. Yes need more nurses but not more paperwork, this is another issue that has got out of hand. Not enough time spending one on one care with residents that desperately need it. Reorganisation of nursing practice and more nurses would help
I'm considering my study in Aussie, can you explain how thing work in workplace?
I had plans on working up to 65. I am skilled tradesman in heavy diesel mechanics. The dynamics have changed in the workforce and I struggled working with the mindset of the younger people.
I retired early, best thing I ever did.
What mindset?
It may actually help if small business can advertise and could employ people which we can't anymore because of bloody Google . Advertising is so difficult now that people are giving up and they're not employing young people and you have kids that think they're s*** doesn't stink so they won't actually go and get educated or learn a trade . Also the Yanks are convincing everybody that it should be 24-hour play time so it really is difficult
@@divyanshd3969 I'm so incredibly amazing that I don't have to do anything and other people can do it for me if I'm so smart why do I need to do a university degree that is the problem
Yeah, tell us more about the "younger people mindset" that made you quit.
Of those who prepared the episode, has anyone bothered asking a question where those workers that are so needed in Griffith are going to live? As of 2 December, there are 3 places for rent and 4 to buy in 50 km radius. And those available are not cheap, in fact they are more expensive than outer suburbs on Melbourne.
Point is you cannot have it both ways - either affordable housing and workers or "equity mate" and no workers.
The same thing is happening all over the USA also.🤯
yeah but most of these picking and ag jobs offer free accomodation.
Once upon a time I thought about immigrating to Australia. Then I looked at your immigration system and concluded that the Australian government doesn't want immigrants.
Entirely fair,they make it difficult.
Don't come you will be horrified what ... horrified...come and u will be drained from all of your money...
It seems the Government system regulators have let corporate greed to manifest rampant free for all survival who has the most money at the expense of his brother neighbour friends who ever the system of fair Australia has gone..Entre at your peril.
me too oh my god the system is such a mess ... canada and europe are much easier to immigrate
@@ramifridhi4038 maybe so but there's no place to live here in Canada, all your wages go for housing, food and heat, sorry about it
@BlessedWoman it belongs to the indigenous people and always Will
This is what happens when you rely on the politicians to manage our society. Lots of funds for car parks and sporting stadiums yet no vision for our skilled workforce present and future needs.
Also when you base a business on exploitation
Base a business on exploitation? It is called voluntary exchange. Do this for me and I will give you that. Take it or leave it. That is as fair as it gets. Any other scheme is involuntary.
@@KayAteChef And workers see what is offered and leave it. For employers and corporation to constantly complain that they cant find enough skilled workers is an indictment on them as they have failed to plain for there business. Blaming government or the worker just shows there psychopathic tendencies. I have sympathy for the workers but no sympathy employers and corporate as they have created a psychopathic culture in workplaces at the deportment of there employees.
AMEN! I see the word politicians, looks like polluted / or poo - politicians.
@@KayAteChef Gee and you can't figure out why people are quitting and they can't find workers?
Get a job but then you cant find a place to rent because its way too expensive. The system is broken.
Rental price gone through the roof and average house price in Sydney around 700-800k
This is what happens when society's values are driven by instant gratification, convenience and greed. Until essential services, food production (off the land and not in science laboratories) and contribution to community is given the importance it deserves, our society will continue to decline.
'You can't eat money'
Raunchy - 3rd that is. EXACTLY!
Or gold or silver or oil you can not eat it so what is the true value of it not a dam thing the real value is food water and people
the things we prioritize politically is certainly unsettling
you have literally spoken my heart out
Please don't forget the rural areas are worst 😢 😔 😫 much worst
Go speak to backpackers who have worked months without pay, with unwanted sexual advances and blackmailed to be able to extend their visas. Our 'poor' farmers are a bunch of grubs taking advantage of people. They are an embarrassment to Australia.
To be honest I'm furious! I came to Australia 2,5 years ago. I've been learning English from scratch and I thought if I could speak English I would find job in Australia easily. However all my application have been declined because I'm a student visa holder. Furthermore I have diploma as a teacher-psychologist in primary school, I have two masters degree as an engineer and as a manager, I used to work for the Russian Navy for 10 years but who cares? Just because it's Russian it's not listed in Australia so I have to study again but I can't afford it because I can't get well paid job. Nobody wants to deal with student visa holder. Getting certificate III in childcare for overseas students is incredibly expensive. I have so many friends with outstanding degree and work experience and they would love to come and work. Australian government deserves all those problems. There is huge staff shortage because education is unaffordable and getting even student visa is complicated.
When Australian public servants tell you what you have to do to get a job, they are usually lying. The people who control Australia make up endless bureaucracy, regulation and policy that makes no sense on purpose so that normal people can not get approval. After that the normal person has to make friends with a politician or make political donation or is forced to get a bad job that they never wanted and would never agree to unless they were tricked in this way. Millions of Australians and foreigners are very frustrated because they think they are dealing with an honest system or having an honest conversation with politicians and bureaucrats when they are not, because really the system is full of lies and manipulation, and the politician or bureaucrat is lying to their face. The system is not broken it is set up like this on purpose because in this way the public servants, politicians, and political donors have the most power instead of the worker or small business.
what's the wages like in russia?
They want white English
Well said
Australia is the United States just an extension it's a free for all who can grab the most...At least in Russia your skills are valued
It's hard to find local people work on the farm because of low pay . They pay about $12/ hour not $29 or $45 in this clip.
I'm sick of cries of worker shortages - esp from the supermarkets who they repeatedly reject me (as a shelf stacker) because I'm over 50.
If the shortage was real, they would discriminate like this.
And the un jabbed are still being denied jobs !!!
Might be time to start lying about your age.
I'm a late 40s ex-high school teacher and have found work incredibly easy to find in the regions. I work 3 different jobs for the season and earn enough to have a middle-class lifestyle. When I do work, it's extremely long hours, but it keeps me in shape.
@J C
That sounds terrible. 3 jobs ONLY for middle class? A single job should supply a middle class life, even with a wife and 2 kids. What has happened???
In the UK you can see a lot of elderly mid 50s or above working in supermarkets. These workers are better than the young generation.. Still UK has shortage of workers.
Finding somewhere to live is the real challenge I'd gladly moved out there but it's too hard to find somewhere to live, Australias obsession with real estate value has come back to bite
High realestate cost, therefore no workers to pay for it, no workers therefore businesses fail, when businesses fail so does realestate go down, when realestate goes down, so does the greed, and we are back to equilibrium in human behaviour. In effect, what goes up, must come down. Economics is a self-balancing system.
No it's political correctness destroying society in every way we can't say these disgusting landlords from overseas are ripping us off we're not allowed to even mention that so they just keep putting up the price
And yet we learn nothing.
I dont know but somewhat i am grateful that here in the Philippines it might not be perfect but I can still get a check up whenever i need to without waiting for weeks. 😔
That's because you people understand that not everybody can have the best job and you get out there and work very hard every day. young Australians that refuse to do that
9 years of Liberal government 🤬
Don't expect anything to change under the ALP. They all sing from the same hymn book.
@@Blue1Sapphire
Exactly!
@@mariahewitt9787 How do 'they' become the government? WE VOTE THEM IN. Time for people to take responsibility. We ALL have responsibility. We need more taxes not LESS. Stage 3 tax cuts MUST be scrapped.
Scomo should have been out in 2019.
Although not a liberal supporter for employers and corporation to constantly complain that they cant find enough skilled workers is an indictment on them as they have failed to plain for there business. Blaming government or the worker just shows there psychopathic tendencies. I have sympathy for the workers but no sympathy employers and corporate as they have created a psychopathic culture in workplaces at the deportment of there employees.
"We're looking for 30 workers but we wont pay you enough to house and keep yourself warm let alone buy a home and raise a family" No thanks
I'm always suspicious of the fruit producers claims of inability to find workers. Everything I have ever heard of these businesses can only find overseas workers for the jobs as the conditions are terrible, the job is backbreaking and the pay is not worth it.
I feel awful seeing all that waste and have empathy for those struggling but that doesn't change the fact tha we need to re-evaluate how we look at and treat work forces. The fact of it is commercialism is a pyramid scheme and it got way to unbalanced and all the people feeling the effects are arguing amongst themselves over scraps while the few at the top of the pile create narratives that people just don't want to work.
How do they think we are going to convince our youth to break their back working full time for a wage that doesn't even nearly cover the cost of living and with a work/life balance completely out of whack ?.
Those on the dole are sitting around ready to go.
Don't be suspicious, Kiki. I live in a fruit picking region, and most, if not all, locals refuse to pick fruit as the dole is a better option. Australians will simply not do fruit picking work. If you don't have overseas workers doing these jobs, you simply won't have any fruit and veg on the table.
Why don't the farmers just offer direct to customer and direct picking for discount. Customer just picks what he wants, pays, and drives off.
Well, u r right. Same thing in nz. I did kiwi fruit picking for one season. Worked 12 hrs a day to earn $160. That was like $13 an hour, while the minimum wage was $16.50 an hour. The treatment was shit. I m happy where I am now from that stuff. Would prefer to stay home unless they pay better and treat fairly.
They should get a fruit picking robot and automate the process for same cost or less potentially, and minimize the need for such labour intensive tasks in society, and thereby give the people better jobs where they use their mind, instead of their body. Perhaps facilitate people to learn how to design the robots, instead of picking fruits, and not charge high fees for such education. In fact people can learn on youtube how to design robots without going to university. Then build that robot and create a company.
What can you expect from a (former) prime minister who referred to stranded Australians as "biological terrorists"? Australia put itself in this situation due to xenophobia and slamming borders shut in May 2020 after telling overseas working Australians to shelter in place in March 2020. 40,000 Australians were trapped overseas and desperate. They were treated like lepers when they finally made it home. Some spent $35,000 getting back, draining their life savings.
perfectly able people are on the dole!!!
So you are saying that they repatriated at great expense, are broke, and need money. They probably aren't the reason we have a labour shortage. Welfare is. The incentive to work was lowered when Job Xer pumped money into Welfare.
Also worth noting is that they had 3 months of watching China implode on TV before we closed our borders. They were slow and deserved what they got. And when they came back they infected us anyway.
Yes. It was an utter disgrace. The Liberal party is not living up to its manifesto, and the Labor party is the same.
@@turbodewd1 Plenty of able business owners and farmers who can earn their own way by doing the jobs they want someone else to do themselves.
@@turbodewd1 because middle management sacked them for their own job security
I'm 58 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to replace it. We can get by, but cant seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 40years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for..
Building wealth involves developing good habits like regularly putting money away in intervals for solid investments. Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future. Putting our time and effort in activities and investments that will yield a profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for. Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. "You're not going to remember those expensive shoes you bought ten years ago, but you will remember every single morning when you look at your bank account that extra 0 in there. I promise, that's going to be way more fun to look at everyday", I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.
@Jake Demuss Trolling potential Suicides is discussing you should be ashamed.
@@coldpotatoes2556 Trolling potential Suicides is discussing you should be ashamed.
@@coldpotatoes2556 If I misunderstood you attempted humors response can you see that your communication on such a serous mater needs reflection and further consideration. You may have to get the chalk board out again and brainstorm with empathy and not humor. empathic Listening with out judgement followed bu encouragement to take action works better.
decades ago when I was young and talented and skilled I tried to get to Australia and live there and raise a family there. I could not get a permanent residence. Now I hear about all the rules you have and the government you have and the housing crisis etc. I would not want to go even if you begged me.
there is no shortage of people to work. Pay them a proper wage and stop using cheap labour as a backdoor to immigration.
I get paying more but where have all these previous workers gone?! Some money is better than no money?!
@@abourgeois2 they prefer to pay cheap third world labour than locals. So there is no labour shortage, just people not wanting to work for crap. Previous workers have moved on I guess
Just looking at rentals in Griffith and no wonder nobody is moving there. It's insane how high rent is for a house big enough for a family of 4 for example... over 400 dollars a week. Who has that money lying around.
even the average house for sale for a family of 4 is extremely overvalued.
the pay and conditions in childcare industry is horrendous!!!!
If most of your salary goes on living expenses then why work
@@marks-0-0 That's a shocking attitude.
Root cause of workers shortage:
The employers discriminate against people which :
1. Has no experience
2. Old
3. Colored skin
4. Cannot speak Australian English
5. Not with presentable personality.
6. Etc. Etc...
In short , the employers are spoiled, consequently people unemployed or seeking jobs had surrendered and given up.
DONT blame the unemployed people.
It is the discriminatory practices of "spoiled" employers.
Blame yourselves, spoiled discriminator-employers.
Yupp
Homes shortage, skills shortage, incomes are not good enough. To put your kids in day care and or to go to a psychologist is ridiculously expensive.
brilliant investigative journalism, one of the very few sources of it left in Australia unfortunately
It's poorly funded. Deliberately too.
Shame they left a lot of important factors (such as overpriced housing) out.
The media is a business so if people are not watching on mass they're not going to put money into it which is why most television is crap now
Absolutely heartbreaking stories. The fruit on the ground. The quiet trees laden, in wait, in vain. Like patients seeking health support... And the back of this is affordability of living. This is indeed a crisis we have not seen before in this way. It's going to keep hurting for several years until enough measures and policies have come into affect to ripple through. Couldn't come soon enough. The fatigue and burn out is so very real. The entire country is feeling it. Exhaustion is at its wits end.
As they said, "these are boom times", what happens during bust times? All these "critical workers" get the sack immediately and the business owners put their hands out to the government
More BandBs rentals for holidays but nothing for workers to service the holiday makers yep that's going to end in joy!
When you're business requires being able to find 200 additional workers for a few weeks each year in a remote area where there aren't many people, that's a business risk you take. The backpackers will be back next year, so hopefully he has only lost one crop. Losing a crop isn't uncommon. Can be due to drought or hail or whatever. They should have planned for this.
Beautiful PROSE!!
@@JohnPatersonAu I doubt the farmers will be as enthusiastic about backpackers in the future given they have to minimum wage now…
I’m a nurse and it continues to get worse. The vaccine mandate has killed the industry. The over working and under paid of our career is terrible.
The lack of internal training as standard operating procedures, vanished in the 90s, the endless padding in education where much of the material can be streamlined and shortened, delivering shorter, cheaper courses and lowering of the barriers to entry. Diversify your workforce, especially in the 40-65 age group, young managers lack the communication and people handling skills so lack confidence that they can work together with older colleagues which results in not hiring them and seeing older calmer Aussies as a threat.
There's no magic wand waved when you hit the age of 40 that all of a sudden you're a competent manager. Otherwise I agree.
You'll note "vanished in the 90s" = Damage done by cutting of unions by The Liberals along with kicking off the housing market ponzi scheme / gravy train. Why invest in productive industry when a house can make you guaranteed returns with no hassle. This is further swept under the rug with "modern/digital/technology entrepreneurship" - mentioned in the clip.
Apprenticeships/traineeships/cadetships have also plummeted significantly since "the good old days", it's no surprise we have to rely on foreign skilled labour as a result. I implore you to think about this as dollars vs cost of living. $6/hour as an apprentice was fine ~20 years ago when you were paying $80/week for a room - You won't find that livable situation today.
University used to be free in this country...
It’s not just GP shortages that’s the issue, the GP’s Medicare rebates aren’t enough to make the job worthwhile so they can no longer bulk-bill. This means low income earners either don’t access a doctor or alternatively attend the local hospital’s emergency department which then clog the hospitals.
@Jake Demuss not when you have bills
I became PR last 10th of November 2022. I have to say this (unfortunately): during the period that an immigrant does the job recognizement companies exploit you with minimum wage. When someone reaches PR and send resume to other companies, they are not willing to pay anyway. The problem is that this situation now is known all over the world and people think twice before coming here due to visa fees, processing times and even workplaces (regional Queensland where I am I think is the worse from this point of view) that it is not a mistery that they are a little bit racist. People move to Canada, easy, less struggle and most of the people are welcoming one.
Moreover I have been in bridging visa for 338 days. And, due to the fact that I have been granted a visa 190 qld, I cannot move out of Queensland to work (limitations is a very huge problem).
I guess you'll just have to be content with what QLD has - after all you had 338 days on a bridging visa to find out if you liked it here or not. The fact that nobody rolls out the red carpet as a full citizen does not mean "they are a little bit racist", it means that to make it here, you have to start from the same place as everyone else, because if we gave you favourite treatment, that would be racist to the others, right? - From Brisbane, QLD -
@@joebloggs5271 Maybe you didn't understand that when I said "they are a little bit racist" i refer on the job place where you are forced to stay until when the visa is granted, so even if you get invitation you are still forced to stay there due to visa. And I have my friend's aunt in Brisbane (17 years that she has been living here) and she quits her job due to the treatment from other colleagues. Everyone knows that here in QLD you are what you are... I have been in Victoria and it is not like that (and I will move from here ASAP).
@@joebloggs5271 Moreover, after I paid only the PR visa 4145 $ plus all the other fees (total around 10k with lawyers, taxes, health visit, etc.) I think that I deserved a little bit of respect from the government, because I would like to see if you go, for example, to a car dealer that tell you "you will have your car in 3 months" and after you have to wait 1 year...
@@mirkeggiante
How about five generations ago my ancestors came here as free settler, there was nothing here - some basic buildings in Brisbane. They purchased five thousand acre farm, hundreds of km outside, and went there, building their own house from the very foundation up. Worked the land, harvested, sold the product, paid all the loans out. That same land is still worked by my cousins to this day, they work hard six days a week.
YOU COME HERE ONCE, AND STRAIGHT UP WANT RESPECT? SORRY NOT SORRY LAD, YOU NEED TO EARN YOUR PLACE HERE
@@mirkeggiante
Ok sure get out, if Vic is better I'm sure you'll find it also has it's problems.
I guess that's what happens when you become dependent on cheap foreign labour. Australians don't want to be treated like slaves.
I agree with the lady who thinks that there needs to be more land releases and investment in housing. Also think that a program that supplies transport from the cities to this town with attractive boarding arrangements that help young single people to focus on saving for their future could be set up. It could work with all businesses to share employees during the different peak seasons, and provide events and entertainment like a working holiday. Imagine if we had a culture whereby everyone took a week or two off on leave from their regular job to do a working holiday in a regional town.
You cannot build your way out of a housing crisis. Believe me California has tried and they have the worst homeless problem on the planet.
I noticed the word entertainment in there this is the big problem people want to be entertainment 24hrs a day not get an education
What needs to happen first is BAN overseas ownership of Austlain domestic property,as Australians are banned in overseas countries. They don't rent it out, just wait for capital gains, and of course the property shortage ensures prices will rise above what average Australians can afford. Our Politicians don't care because THEY ARE PROPERTY INVESTORS too.
I been watching these exposes for decades and wondering how they can misidentify the problems so consistently decade after decade. Misidentify the problem and it never gets fixed. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. At what point does it become apparent to documentary film makers that they are doing more harm then good. While gathering the "facts" you're also forming an OPINION. If that opinion is incorrect it is on you the documentary film maker when the problem never gets fixed. There is a higher level of responsibility involved to not inject a incorrect bias.
Engineers have a saying, "You cannot solve a problem using the logic that caused the problem in the first place." Asking employers for solutions to the problems they create will never lead to a proper solution. Employers always define the problem as someone else needs to do something for them. Never, they have to change how they do business. Over fish a fishery and crash the food source and it is always someone elses fault. Employers have to manage their labor resources and they don't do a very good job of it. In fact most don't do it at all. They don't see it as their responsibility. It is an added expense that doesn't add directly to profits, but it does go to sustainability of the operation. Get out of balance and you are heading for a crisis. Continue on the same path and you will get there. If you exploit a resource excessively and it crashes, it is on you to live with the consequences of your actions.
A shortage can only occur at a price point. A labor shortages is no different. When ever you find yourself saying, "We or I cannot find workers", you need to get in habit of finishing the sentence with, "AT THE PRICE I'M OFFERING". Your labor force is out of kilter because the pricing mechanism is broken. It is broken because employers bring in foreign workers to suppress domestic wages and when they are successful for decades you get what we have here; employers addicted to cheep foreign labor. When you ask any addict for a solution more is always the answer. Employers are funny that way. From their perspective, the solution to this problem is more foreign labors, but it never dawns on them that bringing in foreign labor with the intention to suppress domestic wages will have consequences to them twenty years later. And more importantly that they shouldn't be doing it. When that time comes the government has to do something, but the problems persist. The problem must be the visa process is not the proper solution. Ten years from now we will still be discussing this with a completely different group of players. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
If you want to fix this problem the place to start is by making the victims whole again. All the existing local workers need a living wage and a place to live. Special skill sets need to be rewarded, too. Never let foreign workers that don't understand the cost of living where they are moving undermine the local's wage prices. There will always be long term consequences. Augment the work force not displace it for fun and profit. Manage your work force doesn't mean exploiting every opportunity to increase profits. Fix the labor pricing mechanism at the local level and foreigners will want to live there. Then and only then bring in foreign labor to fill the gaps. Neo liberalism sucks. Time to find something better.
If you're a documentary film maker stop playing into the nonsense. You cannot solve a problem with the same logic that caused the problem in the first place.
I have to say you are exactly correct. Well said. The ssme is happening in the USA. What a pity.
@@deborahaichele8829 It is happening everywhere in the American empire that embraces neo-liberal policies. The British empire was absorbed into the American empire after WW2 when it couldn't pay back its war-related borrowing to the US. As a de facto colony, Thatcher had no choice but to follow Reagan's lead. Which she enthusiastically did. All these so-called conservatives or neo-conservatives follow the right wing ideology of the Chicago school of economics led at the time by Milton Freedman. Labor austerity sometimes called supply side economics originated in the US. So, technically it started in the US and spread throughout the empire.
This is in the USA as well. My kids only go to school 2 days a week in person because the school district cannot find schoolbus drivers. They pay $24 an hour.
Why doesnt the goverment then get rid of work for the dole. At the moment tens of thousands of people on centerlink do pointless meninal "volunteering" slave labour for $10 an hour. Send people to these country jobs where they will be paid an above award wage $30 an hour and learn skills to put them in the workforce for life. Fund proper trainning for industry standards, instead of dogey tafe certificates in retail or tourism.
So force the poorest people to move from their homes to work for greedy farmers as slaves, great idea. You go first and report back.
How y'all feel about foreign workers now?
Love them or hate them, they do have a part in our workforce.
Relying entirely on skilled migrants is basically a ponzi scheme that doesn't actually fix the problem, just outsources it, leading to new problems, like lack of housing and rising cost of living.
A possible solution is to encourage young people to move into these industries that require help, with incentives including discounted education and tax breaks. Not just constantly looking internationally to fix it due to lack of local solutions.
@@AZ2PM We do provide incentives for younger people to move into crucial industries, both in the areas of vocational education and the university education. It gets to the point that you can't keep on banging the same metal pot and expecting a different outcome.
@@AZ2PM true but noone is mentioning that young Australians like in alot of nations aren't motivated to do the unglamorous work society needs. Also add in low birth rates and the only answer is immigration but guess what most countries need those immigrants too.
Why didnt we have a labour shortage when we were only 12 million people?
Maybe we have too many irrelevant jobs, or maybe we don't pay essential workers nearly enough and they go and make coffee instead.
We didn't have "diversity officer" jobs.
Those people would be doing real work if those fake jobs weren't available.
Bravo, you hit that one right. Immigration will lose your culture, so train Australians and delete useless jobs.
@@louisfaust5957 "Immigration will lose your culture".......................Right now immigration is saving this country from it's worker shortage. Culture changes depending on various factors and one of those includes immigration, if you don't like the changes then you're free to immigrate somewhere else. If Australians think they're too good for certain jobs then they can't complain when brown people come here to fill those roles and sure as shit those people will bring their cultures with them as they have every right under the sun to do so as they have done since the white supremacist white Australia policy was done away with. If you don't like the way Aussie culture is changing then by all means find somewhere else to live.
And we manufactured many things too... And an abundance of places to live.
there another point that back in the day people didn't know than more than 10 min in Aussie summer sun will accumulate into skin cancers over the years...noone wasn't to burn there im the agricultural sector.
I worked in IT for 25years - in some of the biggest companies in Australia in very skilled and demanding positions. For the last 15 years, Australia has been flooded with IT "professionals" from a country I cannot name it here. The result is that top contract rates are 20% lower in net value, while the permanent rates are same as 10 years ago (also went down in terms of inflation). On the other hand, the work load went through the roof with countless requests to "help" and "upskill" the "team".
The lack of workers is pure propaganda coming from businesses - a very efficient way to lower the wages and conditions.
I agree the only skills shortage is only for low entry occupations.
I have high qualifications and unable to find work.
@amit kapoor they are everywhere they have taken our jobs and they only employ their own.
Equal worker opportunity I'm afraid but the owners and elite haven't seen their earnings slashed.
I think modern society is fkd because of the imbalance in wealth. No way of changing it without a great reset and I'm not talking about the WEF kind, more like what the French had back in the day.
The big wave of successful cyberattacks and hacked Australian companies is a direct consequence of the endless outsourcing to cheap overseas IT companies and endless number of "IT specialists" brought on 457 visas. I have zero sympathy for the likes of Optus and Medibank. Here is the result of 15 years of bringing cheap "IT specialists" from overseas.
@@tomcattc3493 Yep your right...they have left Australia on their visas and now they are doing what Australia deservers.
They never invested in their own people.
They brought all these immigrants and they realise they have been dupped.
as a healthcare worker its so heartbreaking to see patient lacking thei proper treatment and time due to surge of patients but the worst feeling is being attacked by those patients who are rude and slurs that are so outrageuous while you are trying to do your best to help them! these people dont know how we cope with thesee traumatizing patients lime you just wanna quit but due your calling and your love your work you stay and move on start your day again ! God bless them
You are needed and you matter. You shouldn't have to choose between burnout or quitting. Come when you can and leave when you need. If that means you give 10 hours per day, bless you. If that means you can give 4 hours per day, bless you too.
Speaking of GPs in the 1990s the system for becoming a GP was changed. Before the change, any medical student who graduated would work for a year and then automatically be a GP. When the system was changed, the medical graduate had to work for several years under a GP, then be accepted into the GP program, then do another 4 years to be a GP. So the supply of GP's was reduced by government policy which is why there is a shortage today. Of course doctors who were already GP's in the early 1990s were happy because they had no competition and got more money. Politicians and the AMA do not like talking about this because they are the ones who caused the problem.
Its the same in all professions and the seeds were sown with introduction of HECS
Will sadly there's no one around to replace the politicians because the average adult now has been groomed to act like a 10-year-old buying Google and China . Which is why we don't have any politicians caring about their jobs because there's no one to replace them
Problem is that Australian employers are looking for European works which is very far far away from Australia very few of them would consider moving to a distant oz land. We should be looking in our backyard which is Asia and the Pacific.
And Africa
Many europeans are willing to come. But they cant pass english exam. What to do? Again only few English speaking asain counties is the choice.
Immigrants are under different laws to citizens- they can very easily end up in immigration detention for years on end wirh no accessto a fair an just legal system.
Morrisons cruel business plan of warehousing people for profit is not a welcoming sign for Immigrants - it is a red flag that Australia politicians - home affairs are out of control cruel authoritarians - Australia have no democracy,liberty, human rights because a legal system has been corrupted for this cruel rort allowing crimes against humanity on a huge scale so private shareholders can profit of such abuse.
@BlessedWoman may I know why?
I think that’s rather misguided and generalised. I get that there are different work ethics and tendencies between different cultures. In the end it comes to the individual. There are plenty of lazy white people too. See what he says-he can’t get locals either 😂
The home ministry representative keeps saying they are trying but fails to mention how they are doing it. There is a backlog of 3000 visas for nurses, why? Canada processes visa in 2 weeks now. I think that problem is something else, they don't want immigrants (mainly who looks different from them).
True.They want immigrants who look like them from US,UK and Europe but the problem is that these are already developed countries and they themselves are facing worker shortages.People from these countries don't apply for visa.People from Africa & South Asia apply for these visas but Australia dosent want them.
may i ask from where you got this information?
Very insightful. Very sad. Stay strong Peter. We are here for you.
If Goodstart has an extra teacher it is able to have another 85 children. Incoming 85 x $150 = $12,750 per week. Early childhood educator weekly wage $1046.00. Why the hell is the taxpayer subsidising these centres? Where the hell are all the profits for a non for profit centre going?
Trust me its hard to believe there are npos. Whole money in hands of rich ppl elsewhere living lavishly.
The directors. The amount of not for profit organization ran like for profit places is ridiculous.
This is the end result of a rampart property market
A rampant property market which is due to record numbers of largely wealthy, skilled migrants propping up the market. Vicious cycle
The problem is that nations like Australia are recruiting professional workers in developing countries, leaving these countries even more short staffed. I live in South Africa and every person that leaves here for Australia might make Australia's problems less but ours much greater. There must a smarter way of addressing the problem than this zero sum game!
re doctor shortage: stop wasting their time with sick certificates. Make it illegal for GPs to issue them and for workplaces to ask for them. They are such a waste of time for multiple reasons and GP's HATE them. Feel like this would reduce workloads by at least 10% ish. Your welcome state govt's
How does a business prove their worker is actually sick then?
"Safe and effective " vaccine?
Mandatory?
@@Robert-cu9bm You must be a very honest person, good on you. They wont know, the same way they dont know now. You can just show up at almost any GP and ask for a sick certificate. They make no effort to check if your sick, because they can't proove your not...and it pays the bills
@@damienvanhoogenvan5111
It's not just about that.
It's about creating hassle too, if it's hassle to get a cert. It creates a disincentive to just Chuck a sickie.
@@Robert-cu9bm when a regular Dr patient want a sick certificate, they get it. They don't need to have a fever or throwing up.
Great report but very frustrating that the source of the issue was not investigated in-depth. Every industry has a staffing issue currently. Where did the pre-covid workforce disappear to?
Death and long covid. I'm one of the many who are no longer well enough to work, and I'm in my early 40s
@@Blue1Sapphire
Are you being serious or just trolling for kicks?
You mongrel, get a life!
Going to training at TAFEs and unis so that they can get out of dead end jobs like these.
Thousands of people lost their jobs due to vaxx mandates as well
Those that awoke to poison that was being forced onto them became awake to the rigged system of the rat race and decided not to be apart of it any longer
Why should the workers need to choose between quitting and working 12+ hours per day? Let the worker, who is in high demand, give as much or as little as they want. They have the bargaining power. If you want to work for 4 hours per day, thank you. If you want to work for 10 hours, thank you as well. Last I checked, many jobs were per hour, not salaried. This would negate burnout and even encourage others to join the workforce.
As an ageing society its getting worse MY WIFE WAITED 8 HOURS TO JUST GET BLOOD PRESSURE PILLS .The problem is also other countries won't let doctors leave their country as they have the same problems.
Nothing to do with an ageing society it's got to do with young people being told how amazing they are by their parents so they think working or getting an education is beneath them
1.(45)years Age limit
2 Endemic bureaucracy
3.Inflexible & inadabtive immigration policies
4.Long waiting periods.
All these reasons and many more make immigrating to Australia a losing game for a lot of immigrants. Sacrificing and risking a lot in exchange for very little benefits.
Australia was my dream country. I failed to go there. I feel sorry for my fellow Healthcare workers who have to pay the cost of failing immigration policies.
This is a laugh, I work in a nursing home struggling for staff, as are all homes, and one of our workers is trying to get a visa and has to prove that an Australian can't do her job!
My husband is an overseas doctor living here in Melbourne and he can't get into the system because of unreasonable exams that they have to pass to start practising. It's been 3 years and his talent is wasted by working as a security guard.
Oh my God. That's sad
@@krunchfoodsllc3069 thanks dear. It is incredibly sad. Especially because he is the kind of doctor people would want to go to. He believes in very healthy lifestyle-gym, eating habits, no drinking smoking etc. He's so knowledgeable.
This is what happens when you treat people like slaves and you get bosses on power trips
I'm about a year out from being a qualified highschool teacher and I'm already looking overseas. Australians don't value education unfortunately.
Part of a solution involves rapidly deployable pre-assembled housing located on council (crown) land with 199 year lease. Planning for services including public transport routes. Jobs are council jobs, guaranteed conditions, and the council hires its labour pool to local businesses.
That would require a govt with a brain.
199 year lease? That's a long life expectancy. I'll defer till I'm dead.
I call BS that there's no locals to fill positions. You can walk into these establishments and say, "here I am! I'm ready to work!" They'll turn around and say, oh I'm sorry you have to apply online, then when you go through their 10 step application process and click "submit" you never hear from them. Shortage BS!!
I'm not Australian and I noticed there are certain sectors where locals just don't apply for the jobs at all. The issue in some sectors is not that employers reject people. It's that nobody's interested in doing that kind of work.
At lot of locals simply think some work is beneath them and they're too good to do that job. Then those same people complain when foreigners come to fill that job claiming they came to steal jobs.
@@user-um7tw6kx4r6 disagree. Some employers want migrants so they can rip them off, employing a local means they have to go by the book and pay proper award.
Not really… there are many sectors that just want cheap labour to exploit. One used to be able to travel around Australia doing seasonal work but now the employers only want backpackers or Pacific Islanders who they can exploit and treat like slaves. Four Corners has already done an investigation into this foreign worker exploitation as it is rampant throughout regional Australia.
Farmers are NOTORIOUS for wanting cheap migrant labor they make up these stories to justify bringing them in.
I am a teacher and have been working since 2009. I want to move to Australia for my kids' better future but the visa consultant asked for $10000 as the overall cost for my visa alone it will be doubled if whole family is involved. As a Pakistani... With the drowning economy... A hell of the cost for seeking visa and then getting to this situation where immigrants are underpaid, deprived of economical housing and mistreated... It's awful.
Its embarrassing to hear the reporter said "early childhood teacher earn 26 per hour, the less that someone pick a fruit" you can clearly see a huge problem here.
This is my workplace in massive crisis over staff shortages! I cry a lot at times.
In Australia licenses are required for jobs like bartenders and coffee baristas and for most jobs other than the most menial work, and degrees are required to change bedpans or clean toilets in hospitals. That is the biggest problem of working in Australia -- over regulation and its nanny state attitude. Manufacturing employment is almost nil in Australia
Facts
You don't need a licence to be a barista or bartender. Where did you get that information?
And after get all qualifications you have to manage xenophobia every day and not human rights....
The 'license' is responsible service of alcohol certificate that takes 1 day, laughs
Skills in demand here in Australia have been the same all over world searching it since mid 2021, health, care, teaching, technicians, engineers and ICT professionals. It is too late, many of the available candidates had been garnered by Canada, UK,EU and USA many months ago. Few leftover are being chased again and again. It is difficult bring them here at this point of time. Atleast whoever available here should not be lost. In reality, the temprory workers who had learnt the work, trained in Australian business are leaving day by day not because they want to, but they couldnt. Visa system here is not allowing them to continue. Although, New Govt is trying their best, amidst criticsm from liberals for every action, new initiatives are moving at snails speed with the sytem in between not supporting at all. Allowing international students working unlimited hours, extending work rights of international garduates for few more years, lowering the points required for migartion to bare minimum levels, new govt is trying all possible ways to fix skill shortage but it appears not sufficient enough . 2023 may see much worse chos as the state govts are still sitting at their ivory towers.
They should allow permanent residence to those who are already in Australia, especially in childcare.
Well said... I totally agree with you!
I was on student visa for 4yrs in Perth, WA but left last yr feb 2021. I did finish my 2yr program and for 4 years served the Aged Care industry including the pandemic. But finding the PR pathway was like finding needle in the haystack. The point system requirment was too high and all other requirements let you feel they dont need you in OZ especially the IELTS score requirement. I transferred to Canada. It was the best decision I have made minus the Canada weather vs Australia weather ofcourse. Here in Canada we were treated fairer and we were given public health even thou we are still not in PR status which was the best thing that ever happened.
Australia need to review their immigration points system if they are going to solve the worker shortage
You want to work as caregiver ? Pay 20.000 aud tution fees + accomodation
You want to work as construction workers to provide cheap housing for aussies ?
Pay 20000 AUD tuition fees + accomodation.
You don't want to pay ? Minimum 5 years experience and IELTS level for eminem.
Henceforth health services and housing crisis happened.
Someone should investigate those education mafias they were the roots of disasters, and track their cashflow, I bet they never care about food price crisis, housing crisis, health service crisis, all they do just to make sure everything being difficult to everyone. And share the money to immigration daddy ? Who knows !
It's the same thing in the US. I live in a major city and I don't have a GP or Primarily Care Dr as we call it here. I have a Nurse Practitioner that takes care of those services. I see a specialist for endocrinology and she is booked out years in advance. My appointments are made yearly and you can't miss them.
Great journalism team. Feel informed and it hopefully helps move the dial from an awareness pov
They are leaving the country for other places because the cost of living is to dam high and no place affordable to live rent will take away all your earnings
Very complex situation, many of the comments here tend to focus on one outright thing that caused this... in reality it is many, many factors.
I suppose my biggest peeve is well... in the little town my parents live in, the biggest problem is the lack of housing for the actual intent of housing workers... Plenty of friggen AirBNBs though, plenty of holiday homes and investment properties. But literally no affordable homes for the workers that actually keep the service economy afloat. There is no balance... when the balance is tipped, the whole structures tips over.
These businesses did not just start trading this year. They have been around for years and previously they didn't have worker shortage.
So where did those workers go?
Why didn't they return to these businesses like previous years?
Did all of them get better offer somewhere else? Unlikely.
Honestly, I am wondering what those workers are doing now to put food on their table if they decline $45/hr offer.
Mate, I don't want to throw a wrench in your theory here but loads of people retired during and after covid. They looked at the current situation and said "I don't need this job".
Property is very expensive in rural areas as well as in the city areas
Always I'm thinking of going to Australia I'm from Africa but I face some difficulties on getting a visa
Maybe pay people properly and stop treating them like slaves
People are paid properly otherwise they wouldn't have disposable income to spend at businesses allowing business to expand needing more workers.
If people didn't have spare cash to spend at businesses the businesses wouldn't be expanding needing more workers.
@@Robert-cu9bm you wish. How old are you? Young people can barely afford rent let alone buying a house
@@southpawlibranine3511
You do understand how business works right?
They offer a product or service to the public, the public buys it.
If the public doesn't have money, they can't buy it.
Therefore the business doesn't grow.
Business only grows when they're selling more and more.
IE: if businesses are growing people have spare money.
Why do you think the interest rates are rising so quick, to slow consumer spending.
Consumers have too much money creating worker shortages.
@@Robert-cu9bm SOME people have too much money. If we weighted the average of HOW people tend to spend their money and where they do, by proportion, poorer people do less in activities and learning opourtunities with their families, and spend more of a proportion of their incomes on essentails like housing and food. The sections of society that you are comparing means you are referring to those able to spend millions in finance and business growth without investing anything into education or pay raises. Raising interest rates indicates slower economic growth but still most adversely effects the poor. The people with "too much" money are typically not in the position to do anything but spend or reinvest. The poor can't even put enough in a balance to keep above their daily needs.
@@southpawlibranine3511 Get a better job then. No one owes you anything.
Since lockdowns in Melbourne the shortage started and I had a few medical aliments. I couldn't see my Doctor. After a really painful ingrown Toenail I studied google and used scapel and did the surgery myself. Now I've become so used of self assisting myself. I don't need to self medicate as I only have Panadol but I am strugling with severe headaches. To get through this I just take 2 Panadol and wait till the pain is over. I do think of death as there is not a Doctor that will help. They used to before COVID but that got in the way of other aliments and you have to do home surgery at home. Thanks google for the study
😯😯😯 I hope you are bettwr now. And pray that this kind of labour shortage will not harm people till it reaches fatality
Griffith drives west 790 km to Adelaide (8 hrs); drives east 570 km to Sydney (6 hrs); drives south 470 km to Melbourne (5 hrs); for a job A$40 per hour, what do you think?
This just reminds me of the late 70's early 80's. Plenty of work for those willing to look for it. Companies training their new staff and offering incentives to land that worker. Power to the people..
Nothing like the 70s or 80s we didn't have the entire world obsessed with Google, kids being told there so bloody amazing that they think it's beneath them to work and buying Chinese goods and acting like children which is why we don't have any people filling these roles because they're too busy playing with Chinese toys and going on tictok
I have a family member who has a medical degree from one of the top 100 universities in the world who would love to come and work here however the government red tape and dated immigration policy makes it nearly impossible . To say “we need to train and employ our own gps “ is utter horse shit when you can go and labour on a construction site or hold up a stop sign for 180k a year
Recommend to him go to England, United States, Canada etc don't waste time with Australia. I'm here 4 years, you don't have human rights or department to protect you...I'm trying to do my license and all immigrants fail minimum 5 or 6 times for the most crazy and ridiculous excuses and rules... I lost $1000. So you can imagine one simple human right drive your car is difficult here you can imagine request other services. Here you don't have rights just obligation....they want your money but they no want provide nothing to you. I'm happy I will leave soon is not the best country to immigrants
When childcare centres, schools and hospitals can't keep staff, there's something wrong other than the pay rate.
(Meter readers, car detailers etc. would love to start out on $26/hr).
A famous study from 1980 showed how certain things can make a public sector workplace psychologically toxic. These include inherent work stressors (eg. dealing with dying ppl and emergencies), plus psychological defence mechanisms like splitting and protection. These interact with the bureaucratic nature of public institutions, to compound stress and stifle individual initiative.
A few of my friends say the same most of the. From the Uk have returned back from Australia
This is the same in the UK, I thought that when COVID lock down hit and companies went bust that there would be more people than jobs! Where did everyone go!
More died than we are told?
Over 2 years of restrictions = lot of retirements, in any single given year it would number in the 10s of thousands. Times that by 2, then bring in no migrants or migrants here leaving.
Also, American data shows many have never returned back to work - perhaps fast tracking early retirement (in Australia the baby boomer generation are the wealthiest due to property gains and can afford to do this)
@@sunnytneoh3126 I don’t think so,
@@AZ2PM they would have retired anyway. As for migrants, I don’t think the boats ever stopped landing!
I would love to do the picking, a couple of problems, my health is pretty shit right now, and type 2 diabetes has had me in and out of the hospital 10 times in the last 12 months. I feel for the farmers, and because welfare is so miserable and doesn't cover the cost of living let alone my medications, picking fruit would be something as a former chef and long-time foodie, is very appealing!
Lol - not sure you realise how gruelling the work is. Plus they normally pay you on how much you pick, so you have to work hard and fast and long hours to make decent money. Best to leave it to young fit backpackers. 😁
@@JohnPatersonAu mate I have fruit picked before, it's back-breaking work, still if I was healthy, I'd love to give it a crack!
I'm truck driver with 3year driving experience who wishes to go and work in Australia but getting work visa very difficult.
this culture will change vastly as work shortage gets bigger, and ozzies still be like "These foreigners taking all our jobs"
This is going to be a long winded explanation of the Hospitality industry, so bear with me.
As a Chef of 38 yrs experience I have seen from one end of the spectrum to the other.
1) the industry, historically has been the lowest paid for professional people & burn out levels through over work & demanding employer's was/has/is extreme.
2) Many years ago, immigration to increase staff was boosted, but here's the kicker....these foreign workers (immigrants & backpackers) would often approach a prospective employer & offer to work below award, which in turn meant people actually trained here would lose their jobs all for profit margins.
YES, I have seen this.
3) the industry is also rather reliant on "paying under the table", which leads to exploitation on many levels.
Now, here we go....
Covid was the bomb the workers themselves needed.
Many,many staff simply left the industry altogether when jobkeeper was introduced, by taking that time & re evaluating their lives & actually found training in other industries,studies in other fields or paying job's that did not destroy or impact their mental health to the degree that hospitality does.
As such, you will never see them again.
Myself....I would love to get out, but who will re train me at my age? I would love to do an apprenticeship in any of the metal trades (a passion), but, who is going to look at a 54 yr old as a prospective apprentice?
Contact a mining company, one of the cashed up ones. Retaining GOOD staff is difficult for them too. Money is sometimes not enough, but being well fed while on shift might make the difference. There may be opportunities to cash up before you retire
Hospitality has been a cesspit of worker exploitation for years so ruthless employers can make easy money for themselves.
I feel for you. Got my baker's cert after 3 years and got the hell out to my nice office job.
I can relate to this. Working in the front line whit out nurses and general practitioners. We are tired of double shifts 😪. Mental health is true
Unfortunately the young people are so obsessed with Google and having fun 24hrs a day that they really are no longer able to get degrees or anything and we are going to see more of this
This makes me so angry. Where did you mention that wages are the problem. Wages have stagnated for ten years. Start talking about doubling wages and you will not have any more problems. People will come if you make it worth their while. Business people are entitled to profits, well workers are entitled to real wages.
$45 per hour and Zero people. Unbelievable. Here in Japan the average hourly wage is around $10 or lower. Government officials are definitely not up to the task…while the rest of Australia suffers!
High cost of living... All those rent seeker industries to support in Australia.
Yeah he didn't provide any evidence of no applications - if he was paying $45 / hr he'll want someone who is ready to hit the ground running, and if not, no hire. That GM of the orchard seems like he's so worried about the fruit, but can't even pick one himself.
That's complete rubbish when he says they were offering $45 an hour. That's why Aussies don't do it anymore, they used to have to be good to people, on farm accommodation or camping, season bonuses, morning tea, water in the paddock etc. It's gone from most farms and thus the workers. I am sick to death of them saying people are earning big money, it's a lie that deters even more people, they deserve very little sympathy.
I can’t get a job. I’m 55 just recently moved from a rural area to a city. They don’t want older workers. They want 16 year old casual kids who can live at home with mum and dad.
People now want to be rich without the physical labour thats the Issue, they call it thinking Smart
In some cultures that's what they teach their children - wink wink Indians and Chinese. Hence happy to keep them away. They tend to lower standards for any industry they touched.
There is no shortage!
Get rid of these idiotic dumb stupid mandates and employ all those currently denied work!
100%
We are seeing the same in Canada.
I am experienced GP from oversea in Australia, system is so complex and ransom they haven't gave me opportunity to be in healthcare system while less experienced or newly grade from here and overseas got the job while I am not getting interview call even.
I used to work for one of the giant company from USA as doctor in worldwide locations and now am working as cheap labourer and worried about the future here
Amazing immigration policies, don't you just love protectionist nationalism peddled by conservative politicians
Same crap in the UK. Conservatives have destroyed the NHS. Takes 2 month to see a GP and 2 years for a psychiatrist.
It creates higher wages.
There's a massive gap in pay in the UK between low skilled and high skilled.
Because eastern Europe could move to the UK and work for less than the average Brit.
But to them it was high compared to what they're used too.
@@Robert-cu9bm , no it's not, that's a delusion claimed by propagandists. If eastern Europeans work in the UK, they buy food from Brits at the same prices, buy services from Brits at the same prices, pay the same tax rates as Brits with less benefits, essentially they are exploited by right wing and criminal Brits for their benefit. The only thing dumbxit did was chase away skill and cause the collapse of jobs. But, now unskilled incompetent brexit beggars will definitely be paid to kill more patients and lower the quality of healthcare and life. Wait until you call for simple services lile plumbing or renovations, good luck as inconpetent brexiters destroy your home and still extort you for payment. 🤣🤣🤣 wait till you want to buy stuff from Brit companies, they close early now and good luck with voicemail.
Cheap foreign labor is the ponzi scheme globalist capitalism loves rather than address the real foundational problems of affordable housing and training. And if you argue this with them, they'll virtue-signal and call you racist.
@@mayormccheese6171 , cheap foreign labor is conservative right wing exploitation of the global system of economic capitalism. Only the left ever argues for affordable housing. Good luck getting a conservative govt to care about affordable housing, they cater to the rich voters whose problem is how to raise rents. There is no such thing as training, all corporations exploit experience and no amount od training will replace experience, and the fact is cheap foreign laborers generally may have more experience than locals who won't pick up a hammer for the cheap race to the bottom pay. Asl the question: why won't fiscal policy ever let home prices go down to become affordable?
The farmer complaining about worker shortage... Up your pay and there won't be a shortage.
Or automate.
notice there was none of this before covid,backpackers were the source of employees,coz of the scheme you had to do 3 mths slave labor on farms to stay in the country.Then when covid hit the Morrison "minister for everything" LNP govt,told them to F off,so they did,also back packer accomodation was a disgrace,$50 a night in a room with 8 people,this country is a disgrace,no longer the lucky country,now the "MEAN" country,just like Howard wanted it to be.
Singapore also shortage of doctors and nurses.
Heartbreaking 😢
Probably the greatest problem in moving rural is the cost of living ... Too much washed money flooding in propping up property prices and creating new benchmarks for real estate . If the powers that be removed the dirty money - then housing prices fall and pickers could potentially afford to live in the area. Outside of cost of living decreases I cannot imagine why moving rural would be so attractive. Sure its nice living and working rural... but working to remain flat broke a long way from fam and friends is not attractive . .
I also wanna quit soon. I was just wondering what most people do after quitting. What sort of income are they getting after quitting?