Richard Baker’s recent series on labour conditions and recruitment practices in the Australian meat industry makes for essential reading. His main focus has been on the plight of Chinese and Vietnamese workers on Temporary Skills Shortage visas in Australian abattoirs. Baker’s most recent article...
Arguments against the new Australian Agricultural visa have so far focused on its rushed introduction, its lack of justification, the confusion that still surrounds it, and that it will undermine Australia’s strategic goals in the Pacific and increase the risks of worker exploitation. In this...
This week the Australian Government announced a “new era for Pacific Australia labour mobility”. A new acronym would have been more accurate – PALM. It is described on its new website as the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, under which sit the existing schemes, now downgraded to...
As noted in my previous blog, since the restart of Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) and Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) in September 2020, some 6,798 SWP workers and 2,731 PLS workers have arrived to end July 2021. The figure below compares the share of arrivals from the main sending...
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (formerly College) was announced in 2005 by then Prime...
When people leave their countries to work abroad, firms, industry groups, and even policy-makers...
Timor-Leste’s troubles have a way of highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The...
The Federal Agriculture Minister, David Littleproud, announced yesterday morning on the ABC that...
It’s been a challenging year for Pacific labour mobility. With the onset of COVID-19, borders in...
In a recent series of Devpolicy Blogs reviewing the RSE Impact Study, Richard Curtain takes issue...
