'There's no human rights here': Inside the Government's 'exploitative' backpacker visa scheme
Tracey believes it was because she refused to work under"dehumanising" conditions and wear revealing clothing that she was never invited back after her first day.
When she left the working hostel, the coordinator said something that struck a chord with Tracey, so she wrote it down. "The only real solution is to get rid of this incentive for backpackers to work on farms, because that is a totally unregulated visa," the Australian National University professor said.
"If you look at the official documents, it's meant to be about cultural exchange — a holiday and some money along the way. That's been completely lost. It's become a low-skill working visa," he said.If the Government got rid of the incentive for backpackers to work on farms, it could cost the Australian economy $13 billion and the horticulture industry $6.3 billion, a report by the Australian Fresh Produce Alliance shows.
"I get fairly disappointed with some of my fellow farmers and their attitude to employing staff," he said."Those who don't abide by it, they're making their money off someone else's work."You get some bad ones — and they are the minority — but we all get tarred with the same brush.""We don't have a place for these people in our industry who mistreat workers, and we want to stamp it out," president Fiona Simson said.
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