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Old 7th Sep 2011, 22:58
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Andu
 
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I see Jools is back from Auckland (early) with an agreement to allow Pacific Islanders to come to Australia to work on farms.

Hmmmm.... a few years ago, they had another name for a similar scheme of 'hiring' Islander labour.

It was 'Blackbirding'.


I wonder if any of the cartoonists will pick up on that?

And I still struggle with the idea that we pay (quite a few) people long term unemployment benefits and then *****ing blithely announce we're IMPORTING labour from overseas.
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