Deputy Premier’s plan for fruit picking public servants highlights regional jobs failure. The É«ÀÇÉçÇøhas lodged a dispute over a plan to get NSW’s public servants to harvest fruit and grains.
said, “It is a dumb, lazy idea that assumes public servants aren’t already working. The people being asked to volunteer on farms are the people who, among other things, monitor our state’s biosecurity, develop drought resistant crops, and scope future resource and mining opportunities. They deliver economic value to the industry and our state, but the government would rather deploy them to pick apples.”
“Regional NSW has young people desperate for a job. On the same day our unemployment numbers went up the Deputy Premier offered people who already have a job another job?
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