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Richard Curtain

Dr Richard Curtain is a research associate, and recent former research fellow, with the Development Policy Centre. He is an expert on Pacific labour markets and migration.

Hawaiian Bridge

3 July 2026

Changes needed to procurement to promote skills formation in PNG

by Richard Curtain

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4 June 2026

East Timor can’t PALM all the blame off on Australia

by Richard Curtain

16 January 2025

Why do Australia’s seasonal worker numbers continue to fall?

by Richard Curtain

23 July 2024

Fiji replaces Vanuatu as top PALM sending country

by Richard Curtain and Stephen Howes

24 April 2024

The falling demand for seasonal workers

by Richard Curtain

Archbishop Peter Loy Chong (Archdiocese of Suva-Facebook)

12 October 2023

Why the Catholic Archbishop of Fiji is wrong to condemn seasonal work

by Richard Curtain

Pacific Islanders planting sugar cane at Seaforth, Queensland, c. 1890s

18 July 2023

Pacific seasonal workers: not the new blackbirds

by Stephen Howes and Richard Curtain

APTC training in Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll-DFAT-Flickr)

20 October 2022

Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions

by Richard Curtain

Timorese workers in Australia in 2019 (Seasonal Worker Programme of Timor-Leste-Facebook)

14 October 2022

Brain drain 2: general solutions

by Richard Curtain

Samoan PM visiting RSE workers in New Zealand in June 2022 (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-Facebook)

13 October 2022

Brain drain 1: a growing concern

by Richard Curtain

A Tongan PALM worker at Newton Orchards (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

10 October 2022

Labour mobility in the Pacific: transformational and/or negligible?

by Stephen Howes, Richard Curtain and Evie Sharman

Air New Zealand plane boarding in the Pacific (Sarah Kelemen Garber-Flickr)

18 August 2022

The Pacific Engagement Visa is going to be incredibly popular

by Richard Curtain and Stephen Howes

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