700 fruit pickers to be flown into Tasmania

(ABC Rural: Laurissa Smith). Tasmanian berry growers are planning to charter flights from the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste next month to fly out workers for their harvest. The Tasmanian Government will pay for hotel quarantine of the seasonal workers. It estimated 700 workers will be needed in the harvest period to January. A capped cost of the worker's airfare will deducted from their earnings.