Australia needs better working conditions, not shaming, for Pacific Islander farm workers
- Written by: Victoria Stead, Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
ShutterstockI met Elisabeth the day she learned she was being sent back to Vanuatu.
She had arrived in Shepparton, in north-central Victoria, two months earlier. She was meant to stay for six months, working in a packing shed as part of the Seasonal Worker Programme, which provides temporary visas to workers from nine Pacific Island countries and...
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