Pacific fruit pickers needed in Australia

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Updated January 15, 2009 11:16:57

Fruit growers in Victoria say they're still facing labour shortages during harvest. A pre-pilot scheme was meant to have Pacific Island workers in place in time for the stone fruit harvest, but that's already come and gone.

Nikolai Beilharz.

Gaye Tripodi, a fruit grower in Swan Hill.

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