Seasonal workers’ programme

WHAT an opportunity for human development and poverty eradication.
The article in The National on Monday, “MP eyeing K60-an hour jobs in Australia”, is an opportunity for Papua New Guinea.
The government should look into the Seasonal Workers’ Programme and send our unskilled labourers to Australia and New Zealand.
I commend Ling-Stuckey for the work he is doing and ask other MPs to do the same.
The programme can help address the increasing law and order problems and poverty in our country.
We cannot adopt theories from other countries to fix our law and order problems and poverty.
It is time we find practical solutions to solve our problems.
There are have been complaints from the public to the authorities to remove unskilled labourers – street vendors, betel nut sellers, shoe makers and prostitutes – from the streets of towns and cities.
This is an ongoing problem.
The national Government should recruit these unskilled labourers and send them to Australia and New Zealand as seasonal workers.
In addition, I suggest the government arranges for students to go to Australian and New Zealand and work during the school holidays.
Most students have difficulties meeting the cost of their studies every year and some quit because of it.
The Seasonal Workers’ Programmes is an opportunity we should grab.

UPNG- A6
Tutumang