There are renewed calls for a dedicated agricultural visa. The National Farmers’ Federation...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
Promoting migration while combatting the brain drain: monitoring...
Concerns from the Pacific about brain drain could undermine Australia’s new commitment to promoting...
In conversation with Lionel Kaluat, former Labour Commissioner...
Last month, on the sidelines of the Vanuatu Labour Summit, I caught up with Lionel Kaluat, the...
RSE workers ten years on
In 2007, I began research with 22 ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers arriving in Central Otago for the...
Satisfied seasonal workers
In recent years, a number of newspaper articles have suggested that Pacific workers are being...
Maximising the development impacts from Australia’s Seasonal...
A lot can change within the space of a decade. In February 2009, the first group of Tongan workers...
Remittances biggest export earner for Timor-Leste after oil
Recent data show the surprise finding that remittances are Timor-Leste’s largest source of foreign...
Vanuatu grapples with seasonal worker success
Last week the Government of Vanuatu convened its first ever labour mobility summit, on 8-9 March in...
Seasonal Worker Programme: bigger and better in 2016-17
Data released by the Department of Employment indicate that it has been another year of rapid...
The Seasonal Worker Program: a personal story
This is an edited transcript of a speech given at the Pacific Labour Mobility Annual Meeting in...