State Sanctioned Wage Slavery

[Nom De Plume]

Working in Australia for $3 an hour — life on the working holiday visa

There's a subclass of workers in Australia being paid as little as $3 an hour, but there's nothing strictly illegal about their situation.
Every year about 150,000 people enter Australia on the working holiday visa. If they want to stay a second year, they have to do 88 days of work in regional parts of the country.

Winnie Phillips is living back in Sydney now, but a month ago, she was on a strawberry farm near Caboolture in Queensland.

She is visiting from London and has just been granted her second-year visa, after spending three months picking and packing fruit.
Ms Phillips had heard the work could be dangerous and difficult before she began, so she did her research.
"I was reading reviews online, places not to go," she said.
Trawling Facebook groups set up for employers and travellers to connect, she saw enough horror stories to worry her.
"I was thinking to myself, 'do I really want to do this?'," she said.

Going bush

With no other option if she wanted to stay in Australia, Ms Phillips packed her things and moved from Sydney to Queensland.
The first surprise was the low pay. Like most farmworkers, Winnie was paid a "piece rate", meaning pay is calculated according to the volume of produce that's picked or packed, rather than the hours worked.

"The advert said $400-500 a week, [but] you'd have to pack 2,000 strawberries a day to achieve that," she said.
Her actual pay was often so low it failed to cover her rent of $160 a week.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australi ... spartandhp

[billy the kid]

And of course, the Australian Government is too incompetent to pass legitimate taxation laws on backpackers.
The income tax on backpackers wages was from dollar one....illegal according to international law....
Our muppet government cant even get that right......

[Bogan]

The South Americans don't want to live in the Pacific Islands, NDP. The Pacific Islanders don't want to live in Asia. The Asians don't want to live in India. The Indians don't want to live in the Middle east. The Middle Easterners don't want to live in Africa. The Africans don't want to live in South America.

Where do all of these people want to live? With the white guys, of course. Even at $3 bucks an hour (which will be considerably higher when they become Aussie citizens and can get on the dole.)

How you can submit a topic suggesting that there is anything wrong with white western society when every race on earth is clamouring to get into our lands is beyond me.

[brian ross]

The South Americans don't want to live in the Pacific Islands, NDP. The Pacific Islanders don't want to live in Asia. The Asians don't want to live in India. The Indians don't want to live in the Middle east. The Middle Easterners don't want to live in Africa. The Africans don't want to live in South America.

Where do all of these people want to live? With the white guys, of course. Even at $3 bucks an hour (which will be considerably higher when they become Aussie citizens and can get on the dole.)

How you can submit a topic suggesting that there is anything wrong with white western society when every race on earth is clamouring to get into our lands is beyond me.

Errr, you do realise that this is about those people who to travel to Australia on Tourist/Working Visas, don't you, Bogan? Not all that many Asians/Indians/Polynesians/South Americans/Africans can afford to travel downunder on a holiday. This concerns primarily White, European people from Europe, North America, the British Isles, etc. Does anybody deserve to be taxed heavily and underpaid for their labour?

[Bogan]

What makes you think that the people who now come from Europe, the USA, and Britain are automatically white anymore, Brian? You must be a racist if you don't recognise these countries "diversity." Oh, that's right, you are a racist. You hate white people.

[Nom De Plume]

What makes you think that the people who now come from Europe, the USA, and Britain are automatically white anymore, Brian? You must be a racist if you don't recognise these countries "diversity." Oh, that's right, you are a racist. You hate white people.

Brian didn't say anything about white people. Only you did, with your silly assumption!

[Black Orchid]

What makes you think that the people who now come from Europe, the USA, and Britain are automatically white anymore, Brian? You must be a racist if you don't recognise these countries "diversity." Oh, that's right, you are a racist. You hate white people.

Brian didn't say anything about white people. Only you did, with your silly assumption!

Silly assumption? Sorry but Brian most certainly did ...

Errr, you do realise that this is about those people who to travel to Australia on Tourist/Working Visas, don't you, Bogan? Not all that many Asians/Indians/Polynesians/South Americans/Africans can afford to travel downunder on a holiday. This concerns primarily White, European people from Europe, North America, the British Isles, etc. Does anybody deserve to be taxed heavily and underpaid for their labour?

[Nom De Plume]

What makes you think that the people who now come from Europe, the USA, and Britain are automatically white anymore, Brian? You must be a racist if you don't recognise these countries "diversity." Oh, that's right, you are a racist. You hate white people.

Brian didn't say anything about white people. Only you did, with your silly assumption!

Silly assumption? Sorry but Brian most certainly did ...

Errr, you do realise that this is about those people who to travel to Australia on Tourist/Working Visas, don't you, Bogan? Not all that many Asians/Indians/Polynesians/South Americans/Africans can afford to travel downunder on a holiday. This concerns primarily White, European people from Europe, North America, the British Isles, etc. Does anybody deserve to be taxed heavily and underpaid for their labour?

He did too! OMG Brian, That was racist! Shame on you!

[Nom De Plume]

Here is a picture of the UK citizen Winnie Phillips.
I called it racist in you honour Brian!

[brian ross]

What makes you think that the people who now come from Europe, the USA, and Britain are automatically white anymore, Brian? You must be a racist if you don't recognise these countries "diversity." Oh, that's right, you are a racist. You hate white people.

Poor, poor, Bogan. Is English your second language 'cause it appears you can't read it very well. I used a quantantive prefix before I mentioned the colour of any person. Please read what I said, again. Move your finger along the words if you need to, even say them out out loud until you figure out exactly what I did say, OK?