In a recent series of Devpolicy Blogs reviewing the RSE Impact Study, Richard Curtain takes issue with a number of the authors’ recommendations. While acknowledging that “there is a lot to learn from this three-volume study”, Richard notes that “[m]y summary objection is that the three authors’...
Anthropologists have long written about the role of serendipity in their work. Days can go by in which nothing very interesting seems to happen, and then something occurs that is not just compelling but brings the whole dull stretch before it into focus. For me, after three-odd weeks of berry...
So far in this series I’ve spoken mostly about working holiday makers or people with a right to stay in Australia. The status of my colleagues from Timor-Leste, though legal, was more complicated. In this blog I discuss it. My Timorese friends were here as part of the Seasonal Worker Programme...
In the previous two blogs in this series (here and here), I talked about how migration has become critical to modern Australian agriculture, and sketched a day in the life of one small corner of this huge industry as observed by myself. In the next two blogs I seek to expand on this by describing...
When I went fruit picking in January, I had already been writing about horticultural labour for...
This COVID summer, seeking to better understand migration and food in Australia, I took leave from...
Where individual effort can be clearly measured, many employers prefer to pay their workers per...
Several factors are threatening the viability of the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). These include...
The Seasonal Worker Superannuation Administration Service (SWSAS) is a new initiative for Pacific...
Despite the fact that the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is meant to promote labour...
