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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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