Despite the fact that the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is meant to promote labour mobility, and despite the desire of most of its students to migrate, few of its graduates have actually moved to Australia for work. APTC’s most recent efforts to promote labour mobility have focused on...
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a major Australian government foreign aid initiative, commencing in 2008, that has spent over $350 million, and has turned out over 15,000 graduates with Australian qualifications in skilled occupations from carpentry to plumbing, cooking, and...
Across the world – including here in the Pacific region – countries are now beginning to look at how to ease travel restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. As vaccines roll out, international travel begins to resume between Australia and New Zealand and discussions of a...
In the first blog in this two-part series, we showed that net migration rates to Australia and New Zealand from Samoa are about equal, but that nearly all Samoans who migrate to Australia (96%) do so after becoming citizens of New Zealand. Clearly, Samoans migrate to New Zealand because they can...
First-generation migrants make up 30% of the Australian population. But those from the Pacific make...
In 2019, in a Devpolicy Blog titled ‘Go betweens needed to troubleshoot Pacific labour mobility...
On 27 November 2020, the New Zealand Government announced the first major border exception for...
Labour migration is considered an important pathway for supporting economic development in...
Jason DeParle’s A Good Provider is One Who Leaves is a timely work of genius. Over almost 400 pages...
On Wednesday, we launched our report Governance of the Seasonal Worker Programme in Australia and...
