Backpacker workers are losing their jobs and being told to go home by local community members amid fears they will spread coronavirus.
Backpackers in regional South Australia are losing their jobs and being told to"go home" by local community members amid fears that they will spread coronavirus.A regional hostel manager says backpackers are seen"as a threat" by local community members
The State Government says the workers are essential for local economy and discrimination will not be toleratedA group of backpackers have told the ABC some residents of a local town have turned against them, allegedly throwing stones at the foreigners and graffitiing the hostel's bin with the words"go home".
British backpacker Roan Hodgson, who lives at Harvest Trail Lodge in the SA town of Loxton, said his group has been discriminated against."In the past few nights there has been people driving past screaming 'go home', and then a few nights ago people threw some stones onto us.
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