This COVID summer, seeking to better understand migration and food in Australia, I took leave from...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
RSE review III: are top-down government-driven changes the best...
This is the third blog in a series (see review I and review II) assessing the recommendations of...
RSE review II: how to respond to negative impacts
The RSE impact studies by Nunns, Bedford and Bedford, which I am reviewing in a series of three...
RSE review I: employers and community, not just governments
In his recent book The third pillar: How markets and the state leave the community behind, leading...
Piecework in horticulture: should there be a floor?
Where individual effort can be clearly measured, many employers prefer to pay their workers per...
Seasonal Worker Programme under threat
Several factors are threatening the viability of the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). These include...
NZ’s new, low-cost remittance and savings mechanism: how...
The Seasonal Worker Superannuation Administration Service (SWSAS) is a new initiative for Pacific...
Supporting NZ’s seasonal workers to remit and save
Since the establishment of the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme in 2007, Pacific seasonal...
Helping APTC trades graduates to migrate to Australia: why, how...
Despite the fact that the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is meant to promote labour...
APTC graduates finding it increasingly difficult to find...
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a major Australian government foreign aid...