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Participant in the Seasonal Worker Programme (Credit: DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

3 April 2020

SWP and Approved Employers: time for a high-level dialogue

by Richard Curtain

Doctors and nurses at Dili hospital, Timor-Leste: “We’re staying at the hospital, you stay at home and pray for us.”

1 April 2020

Fake news and other viruses: helping our seasonal workers stay safe

by Michael Rose

RSE worker briefing on coronavirus by Seasonal Solutions Cooperative Ltd Operations Manager, Ieremia Lemuelu.

25 March 2020

Border closures and grounded international travel – implications for Pacific seasonal workers

by Rochelle Bailey and Charlotte Bedford

Keeping our supermarkets stocked with fruit and vegetables will be a key policy challenge in the coming months (Credit Shelley Pauls on Unsplash)

21 March 2020

COVID-19 and the horticultural sector: addressing the pending labour supply shortfall

by Henry Sherrell and Stephen Howes

Employers can now recruit from overseas for some low skilled occupations, such as irrigationists (Credit Michele Walfred Flickr CC BY 2.0)

6 March 2020

More agricultural visa by stealth

by Henry Sherrell

5 March 2020

A new chapter for Pacific labour mobility

by Caleb Jarvis

2 March 2020

Mired in MIRAB: migration and remittances

by David Abbott and Steve Pollard

21 February 2020

Pacific Labour Scheme: beefing up Australia’s meat industry

by Holly Lawton

10 February 2020

Remittances: moving people move money

by Ajay Jagannath

31 January 2020

New Zealand’s “climate refugee” visas: lessons for the rest of the world

by Helen Dempster and Kayly Ober

28 January 2020

The Pacific Labour Scheme needs a pathway to permanency

by Michael Rose

21 January 2020

For Tonga, Australian labour mobility more important than aid and trade combined

by Stephen Howes and Beth Orton

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