Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Australia must help fruit industry 'but should improve working conditions first'" video.

Anyone who has ever tried fruit picking, picking up hay bails, etc will understand why these jobs are so hard to fill. People sitting on TV panels who have probably never done a days manual labor in their life, let alone making about $10 an hour working in 45C heat getting bitten by bugs or cut to pieces by hay bails wouldn't have a clue. Bringing in Islanders to do the job and then return home is the ONLY solution. It's a win/win solution.
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@glennoc8585 I now own a van and travel around a bit. The average grey nomad is a fat sedentary slob who would have a heart attack before lunch on the first day. Unhitching the van is about the most strenuous thing they can do, and even that requires them to sit down and have coffee and cake and the a lie down for a few hours.
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Ultima MIc I spent a number of years roof tiling, which is considered a very tough job. It was a piece of cake compared to picking peas among Scotch thistles, or the hardest job I have ever done .... picking up wet hay bales in the Mallee on a 45C day when it must have been 60C+ stacking em in the very top of the hay shed. Heat generated from both the grass and tin shed for city folk to understand.
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@glennoc8585 I'm not disputing that. I'm saying city intellectuals who have never done a physical days work in their life putting forward the idea that grey nomads may be part of the solution to filling the rural labor shortage haven't a clue.
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@zoolander1721 Perhaps you might want to explain why if there is "plenty interested" in picking fruit, why is there a labor shortage. The issue is exactly the same in the USA, the UK. Done by foreigners, which to them the very poor rate of pay and working conditions are ok as its still better than home. They come, do the work, go home. The task gets done, and their poor family and community gets money. Win/win. We are being a very poor international community member denying this income to our near neighbors. I'll bet you've never done the job. Probably a pen pusher in the public service.
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