It hasn’t taken long for the horticultural industry to flag serious concerns about the coming...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
More agricultural visa by stealth
For months during the second half of 2018, the Nationals and the agricultural industry agitated for...
A new chapter for Pacific labour mobility
Australia’s Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) provides opportunities for investment in Pacific economies...
Mired in MIRAB: migration and remittances
In the early 1980s Geoff Bertram and Ray Watters from the University of Victoria in New Zealand...
Pacific Labour Scheme: beefing up Australia’s meat industry
The Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) is designed to help meet domestic labour shortages in rural and...
Remittances: moving people move money
For many centuries humans have been travelling the globe and with these travels has come the need...
New Zealand’s “climate refugee” visas: lessons for the rest of...
In October 2017, New Zealand’s (then) new minister for climate change, James Shaw, announced that...
The Pacific Labour Scheme needs a pathway to permanency
In the 90s, travelling from Melbourne to the family farm, grandad liked to break the journey at an...
For Tonga, Australian labour mobility more important than aid...
A World Bank study of Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) workers in 2015 estimated that Tongan...
The Batlow bushfire and SWP workers
In January at the height of the Australian bushfires, I received a message from James Walau, a ni...