One would hope the leader of a political party that exists for the express purpose of supporting...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
Why “term limits” on return workers in the SWP is a bad idea
One of the complaints sometimes heard from Pacific countries in relation to the Seasonal Worker...
The Pacific Labour Scheme: is it a flop?
The Australian Government’s Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) provides workers from nine Pacific island...
Australia’s seasonal worker program now bigger than NZ’s
The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), which allows workers from the Pacific and Timor-Leste to work...
Food with justice: informality, exploitation and the SWP
To use an appropriately agricultural metaphor, 2018 was a bumper year for the Australian Seasonal...
Could the Step-Up deepen healthcare worker brain drain in the...
In the era of the Pacific Step-Up, Australian aid for health has taken a publicity backseat to the...
Tiny Tonga’s SWP success
Pacific observers often ask why Tonga has been so successful in the Seasonal Worker Programme...
Horticultural labour: who fills the gaps? A response to Howes...
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to Howes and Curtain’s blog post on our two reports on...
Horticultural labour and the SWP: a new report
A team of academics has just produced their second report on labour challenges in horticulture. In...
Through the lens of a seasonal worker
My name is Kalomel Sepa and I am 30 years old. I come from Marou village on the island of Emau...