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Premium Content Plan to ban the backpacker slammed

Fears plans to slash visa numbers will end with proudce rotting in the fields.

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22nd Jan. 2019 6:01 AM

ROTTEN IDEA: Pozieres farmer Jeff McMahon (right) with backpackers Makayla Lun and Benjamin Wong. Mr McMahon said the ACTU's proposd changes to visa rules would throw the horitculture industry in to dissarray.

Premium Content Sex acts expected of backpackers in return for low wage

Eight female backpackers on working holiday visas were trapped in debt bondage to a farm boss who traded sex for work to...

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04th Dec. 2019 9:12 PM

Eight female backpackers on working holiday visas were trapped in debt bondage to a farm boss who traded sex for work to pay bills he imposed on them.