Tourists passing through Cairns to visit the Great Barrier Reef like to stop off at The Woolshed, a rowdy drinking haunt that Dominic Davies has run for almost 30 years.
Davies has worked hard to turn The Woolshed into one of the most popular venues in the city in Queensland, but last month he was forced to shutter his business’s Cotton Club kitchen for the first time as a labour shortage that is undermining Australia’s economic recovery hit.
“Point blank, we could not get a chef,” he said of a conundrum facing many Australian companies that are trying to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s acute. It is the worst it has ever been by a country mile.”
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