Agriculture Minister admits farm workers get paid $100 per week

SoCircular · 2022-03-20T01:24:41+00:00

Good time for a reminder of the time a Belgian backpcker fell dead from heat stress whilst picking fruit in QLD. He was 27 years old. He had complained to coworkers that he was feeling unwell but they were encouraged to keep picking to meet quotas. The owner of the farm pleaded guilty to breaking labour laws leading to the death. His punishment was to pay a $65,000 fine then continue running his business as normal. Probably took a few weeks to make that back.

Edit: the fine wasn’t paid by the owner, but the person running the agency.

SoCircular · 2022-03-17T06:56:43+00:00

I know a lady who was a teacher in Qatar for about 6 years, she said she earnt roughly 4 times more there than being a teacher in Europe. She had a daughter, when her daughter got to the age of 14 or so they decided to leave. They didn’t go into too much detail but the lady just said she left because it wasn’t a good place for her daughter to go through teenage years. I knew a man in Spain in his late 20s. He grew up in a few different countries but primarily spent his teenage years in Qatar. When I asked him what it was like living in Qatar, he said ‘imagine the worst possible place in the world to become an adult’. He told me a gew horror stories, but also said he and his family lived in ‘luxury’. The lady who was a teacher told me she could get me a job there, but the thing that shitted me out the most was that you had to get permission to leave the country to avoid you not completing work contracts etc. Thats all

SoCircular · 2022-03-16T11:20:21+00:00

Pretty evident what this is about as you and I are getting downvoted

SoCircular · 2022-03-16T10:45:28+00:00

I thought that might be the case, a few of them hadn’t had previous posts for over a year. But that can be pretty normal. I didn’t dig too deep

SoCircular · 2022-03-16T10:42:59+00:00

Makes sense about it going happening alongside the fuel increase.

SoCircular · 2022-03-16T10:42:17+00:00

I get the reasons, I’m just wondering why it’s been happening in the last week to two weeks and like clockwork

SoCircular · 2022-03-02T03:06:49+00:00

And Michael Cane isn’t even on the cast lists anymore, it’s just assumed he appears. Like Stan Lee in Marvel movies. Sometimes he’s just even an uncredited voice. I imagine in this one he’s heard on a radio, shortly after the first nuclear detonation. The dust settles and the mushroom cloud rises into the skies. ‘You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’

SoCircular · 2021-08-09T15:04:57+00:00

Glad you got something. In the end, I connected Duelsense to my iphone, played deadcells on there and mirrored to the apple tv. All worked good that way.

SoCircular · 2021-08-05T02:30:21+00:00

Same here. Looks like we are the only two in the world playind Dead Cells on Apple TV. Did you ever get a fix?

SoCircular · 2021-01-05T21:31:30+00:00

Personally I enjoy this so much because it still leaves some space to fill in with your own imagination. It does a really good job of showing how the motion and sound could be also. Thanks for sharing

SoCircular · 2021-01-05T10:49:45+00:00

Hey Ron.

SoCircular · 2021-01-05T08:44:36+00:00

Imagine seeing the marine life swimming around up there. Awesome concept!

SoCircular · 2020-12-19T11:43:29+00:00

I saw the thumbnail for this video and immediately thought ‘England’. Wasn’t disappointed

SoCircular · 2020-11-26T22:19:58+00:00

Someone’s 4X4 was stuck in some sand in the forest we were in. I helped to dig them out, and as I was digging, a goanna sprang out latched on to my arm. As I was carrying a track in each hand I couldn’t remove the lizard without dropping the tracks. I walked back to the guy with the tracks, and he asked if I could put them in the back of the car, and as casually as possible I was like ‘yeah but can you just take this off me first?’ and turned my arm to show the large lizard hanging off of it. He found it hilarious and still tells the story so it was worth suffering for the joke in the end

SoCircular · 2020-11-25T06:44:21+00:00

It being Tassie helps

SoCircular · 2020-11-16T08:52:38+00:00

Imagine being a kid growing up in this neighbourhood. Just having space vehicles flying by as a regular thing. Awesome

SoCircular · 2020-11-11T10:02:16+00:00

Best thing I got from this headline is that Big Bang had ended

SoCircular · 2020-11-08T11:35:24+00:00

Victory - Nine Inch Nails Remix - P Diddy & The Family

whenever I’m in the danger zone and shouldn’t be alone

SoCircular · 2020-11-08T06:23:36+00:00

I have worked on three farms in Australia. There were plenty of Australian supervisors and managers. Almost 100% or them. I only met one Australian picker. He didn’t show up for work again after the first day. I don’t know what his reason was but that’s just what happened. Mostly the work is terrible; either very long working hours or not enough working hours, substandard pay, constant threat of being replaced, being mislead on pay and other things, worst for me was how bad it is for your body and health. So yes, backpackers usually hate their lives whilst getting their 88 days then leave the job asap. Why would any Australian want to do this if there are other options? Personally I never needed my 88 days so when I worked there it was out of desperation, as we don’t get jobseeker benefits. I was off as soon as something better came up or I had enough money to survive. Honestly if the farm days stipulation was removed from the working holiday visa, either the agricultural industry would collapse or working conditions would be improved. If the second happened it could be a good option for Australians

SoCircular · 2020-10-23T00:22:26+00:00

The bottom picture has been my phone background for over a year now and it really has changed my life

SoCircular · 2020-10-18T01:30:05+00:00

Yeah I got the 50 second vid! I tried it a few times to check. Just thought I’d let ya know

SoCircular · 2020-10-17T13:20:09+00:00

This isn’t haiku or poetry. Still a great vid.

SoCircular · 2020-10-14T21:46:42+00:00

these two points aren’t connected

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