Unemployment Rate Stands at 5.9% While Agriculture Industry Suffers from Workers Shortage. High Personal Income Taxes The Cause?

xdigger on 09/04/2021 - 10:32
Last edited 09/04/2021 - 10:33

Mind boggling news today from the ABC that Australia unemployment rate stands at 5.9% while our agricultural sector let crops die due to lack of workers. Millions spent on overseas workers which could have been spent on Aussies workers instead. Is Australia's high personal income taxes the cause of this uniquely Australian phenomenon?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-04-07/nsw-ag-workers-…

Is Australia's high personal income taxes and consequently low take-home pay the cause why Australians would rather go on jobkeeper/jobseeker rather than seek gainful employment and impact our national labour productivity? I can definitely empathise with that. Having worked locally and abroad in Hong Kong and Qatar (tax havens) I would argue there is a case to be made for Australia's high personal income taxes to be cut to increase employment rates and productivity, if the Big Coal-enamoured government could bring itself to increase taxes on giant corporations like Google/Apple and the miners, who will not offshore their operations just because Australia hiked corporate taxes because they need our natural resources!

And on a personal note just because I'm a big ol' greenie at heart, bring on an environmental corporate tax on the miners like Gina Rinehart while we are at it!

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Comments

    • petry on 11/04/2021 - 18:00

      what free market ? right wing myth.

      • Telios on 12/04/2021 - 13:28
        +2

        Its ironic that people even say it, because apparently the "market" of labour has decided.

        They decided its shit work for shit pay, so they do other jobs.

  • baldur on 12/04/2021 - 07:21
    +1

    People who never picked a fruit from a tree think working in a farm is easy. Lol.

  • trapper on 12/04/2021 - 13:00
    +1

    Australian workers are not afraid of hard work.

    They do much harder, dangerous, boring & generally more miserable work than fruit picking.

    But they do expect to be paid properly for this kind of work.

  • Herbse on 12/04/2021 - 16:07
    +1

    It's a shitty job with shitty pay. A job beneath most people who were born here.
    But compared to what some people from overseas have to deal with, it's a lifetime opportunity for them and their family.

    Who told you taxes have anything to do with it? Sky News?

  • baskinghobo on 12/04/2021 - 16:35
    +1

    How are fruits still so cheap if there's no backpacker's to exploit?

    • petry on 12/04/2021 - 21:10
      -1

      they aren't since the liberals/nationals took out the backpackers….

      • baskinghobo on 13/04/2021 - 18:48

        Maybe I haven't been paying attention but haven't noticed much of a difference in QLD.

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