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Desperate employers and universities have proposed new coronavirus quarantine schemes as they beg the federal government to let more foreign workers and students into the country. A chronic shortage of farm workers - due to coronavirus border controls keeping out backpackers - has cost farmers millions of dollars as fruit and veg goes to waste without being picked. Hospitality businesses such as pubs and restaurants are also struggling to hire as Australia s unemployment rate dips to 5.6 per cent and is expected to fall even further as the economy recovers from last year s lockdowns. Meanwhile, the university sector remains crippled as international students - which provide up to 40 per cent of a university s revenue - are prevented from entering the country. ....
Industry groups have urged the commonwealth and Northern Territory government to retask the Bladin Point Worker Village as a Covid-19 quarantine facility. ....