Seasonal workers arrive in Tasmania from the Pacific — but even numbering 650 there’s still not enough to go around

Tasmanian orchardist John Brown is struggling to get workers to pick fruit despite a special deal by the Government to fly in workers to the state from the Pacific Islands.

Based at Sassafras, on Tasmania’s north-west coast, the cherry and apple grower was due to employ 18 Pacific Island staff, but still needs about 150 workers for the apple harvest.

“We finished picking…