Greg's View of Todays News - 02/15/2009

• Teens come forward to claim they fathered 13-year-old Alfie's daughter
  

  Two teenagers have come forward to claim paternity for the baby girl fathered by 13-year-old Alfie Patten, amid reports the child's mother Chantelle Steadman was sleeping with as many as eight boys.

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    • This is a disgraceful indictment on modern society.
      How on earth can these children ever hope to learn personal responsibility - let alone respect for themselves and others.
      Publicity of such an abberation is wrong. - post by gnaylor
    
    

• Pacific fruit-pickers head to Australia - ABC News

  The first of an estimated 2,000 unskilled seasonal workers from the Pacific arrive in Australia tomorrow to begin picking fruit.
  
  On Monday, 50 Tongans arrive in Sydney, en route to Robinvale on the Murray River in Victoria, to start work picking almonds on local farms.
  
  They are the first of an estimated 2,000 unskilled workers from Tonga, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu who will take part in the Federal Government's pilot unskilled seasonal workers program.

  With unemployment on the rise, some vineyards in the King Valley are moving away from foreign seasonal workers in favour of the locals. It is good to see them doing their bit for the Australian workforce.

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