Evidence over nine months to the end of February 2024 shows a declining demand for Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme seasonal workers — those who used to be under the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), now absorbed into the PALM scheme as short-term PALM workers. Figure 1 shows...
Australia is about to launch a new visa that will for the first time create a Pacific quota in Australia’s permanent migration regime. 3,000 visas will be issued every year for the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste. It’s a huge opportunity yet awareness of this new visa is low. The Pacific Engagement...
The Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is the latest to add his voice to calls for the free movement of people within the Pacific. That means the call has been supported now by leaders from Samoa, Solomon Islands and Fiji. The time for debating whether this idea should be taken seriously is over...
The first blog in this series highlighted the large gap between low- and high-cost Remittance Service Providers (RSPs) in Tonga and other Pacific countries. The second showed that most people tend to use higher-cost options, thus keeping average realized remittance costs high. In this final blog in...
In our previous blog, we showed how remittance costs in Tonga could be much lower than the average...
Remittance costs in the Pacific are widely believed to be high. This blog shows how this common...
If you want a reminder just how far Australian Pacific migration policy has come, read the 2006...
As the new year gets underway, now is the time to look ahead to what will be significant in the...
There has been much discussion about how the rapidly expanding labour mobility programs in...
In June 2021, hundreds of Samoans gathered outside the EFKS Youth Hall at Mulinu’u, arriving early...
