Pacific welcomes Australian guest worker scheme
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There's been a mixed reaction in the South Pacific to the Australian Government's announcement that it will begin its
Pacific guest worker pilot scheme later this year. Up to two and a half thousand visas will be made available for workers from Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to temporarily work in Australia's horticulture industry.
Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speaker: John Sutton, national secretary of Australia's Construction, Forestry, Mining, Energy Union; Vanuatu's Finance Minister, Willie Jimmy; Andrew Kandeskasi, General Secretary of the Amalgamated General Workers Union of Papua New Guinea.
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