The Queensland government is considering giving students discounts on their university debt if they pick fruit and vegetables in the state's regional communities. 9News
"Incentivising them to go out in their anniversary holidays or those who might go on a gap year," Agriculture Minister David Littleproud told 9News.
About 180,000 backpackers are normally in Australia on working holiday visas but that number has dropped to just 70,000. "We continue to lose backpackers back overseas, a significant part of our labour pool," Richard Shannon from GrowCom told 9News."We need to replace them with Queenslanders." Some farms in the Lockyer Valley region employ up to 200 people to work over 280 hectares of land, yet with the onset of the
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