New Pacific workers scheme to deal with “slave labour” conditions

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Fijian abattoir workers who had just arrived in Australia under the Pacific Labour Scheme, made headlines earlier this month when they helped rescue the elderly from an aged care home in flooded Lismore.

Next month (April) a new scheme for Pacific Islanders to work in Australia’s agricultural industry comes into force, after parliamentary inquiries heard evidence that Pacific Islanders have been exploited and treated as slave labour. But comments by a Samoan official cast doubt on how much support the workers receive from their own governments . . .

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