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Karl Dean: Federated Farmers Dairy Chair on new work Visas · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Two new work visas are on the way, aimed at
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  Speaker 1: supporting sectors like agriculture, forestry, your tourism operators. The Global
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  Speaker 1: Workforce Visa, this is your first one, brings in specialized
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  Speaker 1: workers for up to three years. This is allowing them
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  Speaker 1: to come and go basically as they please, though there
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  Speaker 1: are some time limits. Well. The Peak Seasonal visa is
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  Speaker 1: for short term agri and aquaculture jobs and is up
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  Speaker 1: for up to seven months. I should say Cardine is
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  Speaker 1: fed farmer's dairy chair with us this morning. Carl, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ron. Yeah, good to have you on. Why
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  Speaker 1: are these needed?
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  Speaker 2: So A lot of this is about I think we
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  Speaker 2: can all agree that when you have a new staff member,
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  Speaker 2: takes a bit of time and the cost in a
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  Speaker 2: business to get them up to speed. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this is about the fact that, especially in our
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  Speaker 2: contracting and in our meeting processing area, we have very
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  Speaker 2: specialized jobs that these guys that should travel around the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's for contracting, for example, for harvest season for the
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  Speaker 2: grass harvest, they normally travel between the southern and the
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  Speaker 2: northern hemisphere. So it's quite useful for those contractors to
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  Speaker 2: have the same person sharp three years in a row
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  Speaker 2: now potentially without having any issues for them to do
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  Speaker 2: their work, then be able to go home, do their
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  Speaker 2: work at the other end of the other end of
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  Speaker 2: the globe, and then come back in the following season.
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  Speaker 1: You will have people asking why don't we get some
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  Speaker 1: of the two hundred thousand odd jobs see cold beneficiaries
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  Speaker 1: and do jobs like this albeit temporary jobs not happening.
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  Speaker 2: No, I suppose, like I said, the highly skilled jobs,
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  Speaker 2: and they're only seasonal. So you can have someone trained
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  Speaker 2: up if they want to travel to the normal hemisphere
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  Speaker 2: of six months, and there's nothing stopping those people now
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  Speaker 2: than in the trade in New Zealand. But then they're
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  Speaker 2: going to realize that, yeah, literally, there's things to move
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  Speaker 2: around the whole whole world. So you know there are
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  Speaker 2: things like wine making in here that again we only
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  Speaker 2: have wine harvest for two to three months of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So it's a time limited thing that they
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  Speaker 1: are requiring one season of previous relevant experience for the
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  Speaker 1: peak seasonal visa. Is that an issue or does that
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  Speaker 1: sound right to you?
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  Speaker 2: That sounds right to me. I mean again that these
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  Speaker 2: are places that normally these people have experience in the
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  Speaker 2: Northern Hemisphere doing that seasonal work. So I then that's
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  Speaker 2: just saying, all right, we'll normally be able to get
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  Speaker 2: them in for one year, and normally they might come
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  Speaker 2: in on working holiday visa. But this makes it a
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  Speaker 2: lot clearer that they're here for this purpose and that
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  Speaker 2: can be better tracked in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, Cal, appreciate your trying this morning, Cal Deane fed
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