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On-arrival briefing for Ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers in Koo Wee Rup, Victoria (Credit: Seasonal Workers Australia Facebook)

18 May 2018

Asia or the Pacific: where will we source our agricultural labour?

by Stephen Howes

A photo from the 2010 APTC graduation (DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

14 May 2018

Promoting migration while combatting the brain drain: monitoring issues

by Richard Curtain

A panel organised by the Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions at the Vanuatu Labour Summit (Credit: Matthew Dornan)

11 April 2018

In conversation with Lionel Kaluat, former Labour Commissioner of Vanuatu

by Matthew Dornan and Lionel Kaluat

Some of the research participants at work (Credit: Rochelle-Lee Bailey)

9 April 2018

RSE workers ten years on

by Rochelle Bailey

A farm in rural Victoria (Elizabeth Donoghue/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

3 April 2018

Satisfied seasonal workers

by Stephen Howes

Apple farm (Nat Tung/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

29 March 2018

Maximising the development impacts from Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme

by Jesse Doyle and Manohar Sharma

Women work on the Road for Development Programme in Timor-Leste; the improved road access for rural Timorese will hopefully bring economic benefits (ILO in Asia and the Pacific/Flickr/CC BY

22 March 2018

Remittances biggest export earner for Timor-Leste after oil

by Richard Curtain

Cultivating seedlings in Port Narvin, Vanuatu, after Cyclone Pam (UNDP/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

16 March 2018

Vanuatu grapples with seasonal worker success

by Matthew Dornan

Bins of apples at Otherwood Orchards, South Australia (Apple and Pear Australia Ltd/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

8 January 2018

Seasonal Worker Programme: bigger and better in 2016-17

by Stephen Howes and Sachini Muller

Our family, our workers and their families, back in their village

1 December 2017

The Seasonal Worker Program: a personal story

by Kerry McCarthy

Kiwifruit being transported from a farm (Robert Engberg/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

20 November 2017

Migrant worker exploitation: insights from New Zealand

by Christina Stringer

Beach Comber Island, Fiji (Ben Angel/Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0)

28 September 2017

What does the 2016 census reveal about Pacific Islands communities in Australia?

by James Batley

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