Amid heavy job losses, Australia's regions are doing what they can to survive.
Across Australia, job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic are continuing.
“It was terrible, you know, you go and tell 110 people that ‘I don’t have any work for you at the moment, bear with me’." Seventy-two per cent of businesses in the regions took up Jobkeeper, but that did not stop more than one in ten jobs disappearing.Scott Morrison says unemployed Australians are not working because JobSeeker is too generous
Its founder Josh Allen says he also plans to build an agricultural campus to teach young farmers how to grow a profitable business.
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