🥭 Bella's packing mangoes in her hometown this summer and she's loving it | ABC Australia
Teenager Bella Mahiny is spending her summer holidays sorting and packing mangoes in a shed down the road from her family's central Queensland home.
"Mum found it [the job] on Facebook," Bella said.
After a week of dawn starts, and hours immersed in the sweet but intense smell of freshly picked mangoes, the 15-year-old said she had landed a "pretty good" first job.
"It's so fun," she said.
"I like the people here, they're really nice."
Bella was one of a handful of people who answered Tim and Jenna Keogh's social media callout for workers to harvest mangoes at their 5,000-tree orchard west of Rockhampton.
"Getting enough workers has been an issue this year, probably the biggest issue we've ever had," Mr Keogh said.
Australia's unemployment rate fell back to its lowest point since 1974 in November – 3.4 per cent – according to estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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