Like America before it, Australia is increasingly turning over its dirtiest jobs to immigrants. You won’t often find an Australian working in an abbatoir anymore, while 20 years ago, all of these jobs were handled by Australians. Now they are handled by immigrants such as the Chinese, Vietnamese, Afghans (half the abbatoir work force), etc. These low-skilled immigrants bring their family from overseas and you have an increasing number of neighborhoods in Australia where the white man won’t set foot.
Australia would welcome more migrants, particularly the low-skilled ones, if they would go to outlying areas instead of huddling in certain suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.
Australian Agricultural Company (AAco), the country’s largest beef producer, is eyeing the Indian labour market to fill up 260 positions at its AUD 80-million abattoir located in Darwin.
According to business daily Australian Financial Review report, AAco Chief Executive, Mr David Farley, said the company had been working on a plan for 18 months, which includes importing workers on 457 and 417 visas from India.
“If we go into this project with the fear of unions and industrial problems then I shouldn’t be starting this project,” Mr Farley told the daily recently.
“We want to run a safe, fair and equitable plant that offers long-term employment opportunities for people and, therefore, we need a productive workforce and if we go into this project with that philosophy we will be there for a long time.
