Georgina Dent (Anchovy, Melbourne) - who's picking the lemons now

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 5 p.m.

b'Are backpackers exploited on Australian farms? Georgina Dent is a young UK chef working at Anchovy in Melbourne. Having arrived in Australia on a Working Holiday Visa, Georgina was required to spend 88 days on a farm to secure a second year in Australia. She ended up in Bundaberg paying exorbitant rent to do piecework picking lemons: it was hard, hot work and hard to earn money too. And out of 300 workers, 4 were Aussies. I wonder who is picking those lemons now...\\n\\nFollow Dirty Linen on Instagram\\n\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/deepintheweedspodcast/?hl=en\\n\\nFollow Dani\\n\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/danivalent\\n\\nFollow Deep In The Weeds on Instagram\\n\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/deepintheweedspodcast/?hl=en\\n\\nFollow Rob Locke (Executive Producer)\\n\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/\\n\\nFollow Huck (Executive Producer)\\n\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/'