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Queensland mango farmer encourages first-time fruit pickers, young people to fill labour shortages

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.

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