Harvest incentives fail to win over Victorian workers

Jess Malcolm

FEWER than 200 people have taken up the Federal Government’s cash payment incentive aimed at attracting jobseekers to rural areas to undertake farm work, prompting a national campaign to fill a 26,000-worker shortfall in the agricultural sector. As part of this nationwide effort, the Victorian Government has launched a $1 million advertising campaign to reignite […]

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