The job noone wants – $1000 pay and free accommodation in Cairns

Dole bludgers in Cairns are rejecting farm work paying $1,000 with free rent as locals desperately search for employees.

A stable full-time job paying $55,000 per year with free rent and electricity in a two-bedroom cottage has attracted zero job applicants.

The farming job has been advertised on Seek, the Cairns Post and yet not one local in a town with skyrocketing unemployment has applied, the Courier Mail reported. 

Cairns has a youth unemployment rate of nearly than 15 per cent and 6 per cent of people in the regional city do not work

Cairns has a youth unemployment rate of nearly than 15 per cent and 6 per cent of people in the regional city do not work.

Indians, Middle Eastern and people from the Philippines have responded to a job ad but locals haven’t. 

Malcom and Jane McGregor told the Courier Mail they are ‘desperate’ to hire a local farmhand at their property, 90km from Cairns, but have only received applicants from overseas. 

‘It’s frustrating and makes you really angry,’ Mrs McGregor told the publication. 

The family have had to drag a 72-year-old has been dragged out retirement and the children’s 83-year-old grandfather back to work. 

Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Enstch told the publication it ‘breaks his heart.’ 

The youth unemployment rate in Cairns as of January 2018 was 14.5 per cent compared to the Queensland rate of 13.3 per cent. 

This compares to a youth unemployment rate of just 8.5 per cent in Orange New South Wales. 

Free rent and a stable on income of $55,000 is on offer yet youth unemployment continues to rise

A farmer has had to drag a 72-year-old man out of retirement and a 83-year-old grandfather back to work to keep his farm going

The job was advertised on Seek and in the Cairns Post, yet only Indians