With more than five per cent of Australians looking for work, you would think someone would be interested in taking up a $165-a-day job.
But Queensland couple Ian and Sharon Brown recently advertised for part-time workers on their farm, and have been shocked by the lack of response.
The employment ad was placed in print and online asking for workers to help maintain their 2,000 acre property located near Maryborough about three hours north of Brisbane.
Queensland couple Ian and Sharon Brown recently advertised for part-time workers on their farm, and have been shocked by the lack of response
Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien said, ‘I did whatever I could to earn a living from picking crops to labouring and working on the factory floor’
‘We used to be known as a hard working country and now we’re not because there’s nothing to force these young people to get out,’ Mrs Brown told the Fraser Coast Chronicle.
The national unemployment rate is 5.5 per cent according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, while Wide Bay Burnett’s unemployment rate, where the Brown’s farm is located, sits at 9 per cent.
National youth unemployment rate is at a huge 27.9 per cent.
Mrs Brown told Daily Mail Australia that many of the people they have employed in the past simply could not handle the hard work, with one 19-year-old lasting only an hour before he quit and her husband had to drive him back the farmhouse.
‘Society is growing soft, everything is push button, our body’s aren’t conditioned for hard work,’ she said.
Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien said, ‘ did whatever I could to earn a living from picking crops to labouring and working on the factory floor.’
‘I would encourage any jobseeker in Wide Bay to look at all jobs on offer, meet with prospective employers and see if they can do the job.’
After word got out about the lack of response following the job ad, Sharon said that they have received several calls enquiring about the position and hopes they will be able to find people willing to work and stick with the job.
‘You would think most people would jump at the opportunity to earn $300 dollars for a couple of days work,’ she said.
‘You would think most people would jump at the opportunity to earn $300 dollars for a couple of days work,’ Sharon Brown said