No Medicare[1], no family, no visa — these are the babies Australia doesn't count. For the Pacific Islander women who harvest the fruit and vegetables that stock Australia's supermarket shelves, motherhood here can mean injury, debt, secrecy and fear.
The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme is a scheme whereby people from Pacific Islands can get work visas to come to Australia, mostly (but not only) for work harvesting fruit/vegetables. The…
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