Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone is considering a seasonal workers visa for foreign workers to pick Australian fruit. Peter Mares says we should learn from Canada’s experience.

In 2003, over a quarter of all wage and salary earners were employed on a casual basis, and in the period since 1988 more than half of all new jobs created have gone to casual workers. Casual workers today are drawn from a wide cross-section of the Australian population. In this Research Note Tony Kryger...