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This would result in priority visa processing for pharmacists across the hospital, retail and industrial sectors.
Currently, just over 16 per cent of the population in Australia has been fully vaccinated, with around 11 million vaccines administered across the country.
But the nation s rollout has faced delays over the limited availability of Pfizer doses and changes in medical advice around the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The government says more pharmacies are set to join the nation s rollout as demand grows for vaccinations due to the increased risk posed by the highly contagious Delta variant.
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Last week, Health Minister Greg Hunt said 118 community pharmacies were providing vaccines across the country, with the number to increase to 470 by the end of the month.
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The Fair Work Commission has accepted a proposal by the Restaurant and Catering Association (RCA) that aims to simplify the payment of chefs. It comes in the wake of a number of underpayment scandals at fine food restaurants which the restaurant sector has blamed on the complexity of wage payment systems.
The new pay deal will see chefs given the option of being paid a flat rate of least $82,400 for up to 57 hours of work a week, in return for trading away overtime, penalty rates, and allowances.
Association CEO Wes Lambert has described the new pay scheme as “revolutionary”, and will help the sector recover from the impact of the pandemic:
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Over many years we have witnessed a conga-line of evidence showing that temporary migrants have been ruthlessly exploited on Australia’s farms, which has frequently been labelled “modern slavery”.
In March the federal government also released a 327-page report from the National Agricultural Labour Advisory Committee, which explicitly admitted that the agricultural industry’s overreliance on cheap migrant labour is bad for productivity and unsustainable:
Australia’s main competitors in agriculture are either ahead or running very close. In many ways, Australia is at a crossroads. Either its enterprises go all out to modernise by learning and adopting new methods, or they fall behind the others, occupying increasingly uncomfortable niches, relying on inadequately trained, low productivity workers, using the same old approaches that worked yesterday, and then finding themselves in a sit