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Hundreds more Pacific Islanders arrive in Australia to pick fruit

Another raft of international workers have bypassed coronavirus restrictions to travel to Australia and pick fruit on farms and get it to supermarkets before it spoils.   Victoria s farming industry will welcome more than 100 international workers over the next week to help manage this season s harvest. The workers, from the Pacific Islands, arrived in the state on Friday after completing 14 days in hotel quarantine in Tasmania. The new workers will join a raft of East Timorese people who boarded an airplane (pictured) as in Dili in December 2020 to pick fruit in Australia  Pacific Island nations can bypass Australia s travel bans to work on farms (pictured) under a agreement between the countries 

Pacific Islanders Arrive to Help Victoria s Fruit and Vegetable Harvest

Pacific Islanders Arrive to Help Victoria’s Fruit and Vegetable Harvest More than 100 seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands have arrived in the Australian state of Victoria to help ease the labour shortage on the state’s fruit and vegetable farms. Up to 1,500 workers from the Pacific Islands will undergo 14 days of quarantine in Tasmania before arriving into Victoria, under an agreement between the Victorian and Tasmanian state governments. “The arrival of workers is a fantastic step to bolster the local workforce for the Big Victorian Harvest,” Victorian Minister for Agriculture Mary-Anne Thomas said in a statement. “We have worked hard to secure these workers in partnership with other jurisdictions following the challenges faced by the coronavirus pandemic.”

MMA invests in renewable energy sources

MMA invests in renewable energy sources Melbourne Market invests A$13m in six large-scale solar car park canopies in effort to become energy self-sufficient Related Articles The Melbourne Market Authority (MMA) is investing A$13m into a new large-scale solar car park canopy project, which will see six canopies house a 1.95 megawatt roof-top Solar PV System to support on-site energy demands. A total 4,332 individual solar panels will be installed to form the car park canopy roof, saving approximately 960 tonnes of CO2 emission per year, the equivalent of planting 28,660 trees. Along with two other roof-top solar systems on the market site, the additional 2.2ha of the new solar canopy will bring the Melbourne Market s total renewable energy capacity to approximately 2.50 megawatts.

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