Been spending my time lately working in another small town south of Perth, Pemberton. The YHA hostel here is more reminiscent of a hard-labour camp than a backackers. The usual atmosphere of travelers sitting round drinking and laughing throughout the afternoons and evenings has been replaced by one where the "workers" are picked up every morning at 6am and driven off to toil in the fields picking fruit during the heat of the Australian summer before being dumped back at the hostel broken and exhausted to eat, sleep, and do the same thing the next day. This, coupled with the way that when you check in you are issued with one knife, fork, spoon, and one, plate, bowl and cup led me to rename the place 'Pemberton Prison' !! From my own experiences as a backpacker
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