By Michael McKenna - The Australian News | August 28, 2008AS Australia plans to import Pacific island fruit pickers, it has been dealt a cautionary tale that workers in a similar scheme in New Zealand were allegedly mistreated, given little work and underpaid.
Dozens of workers from the tiny island nation of Kiribati were housed in overcrowded conditions and after spending most of their lives in a hot climate, struggled to cope with the cold in some parts of New Zealand.
They also encountered problems such as how to use unfamiliar appliances such as toasters.
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