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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

Kiritimati, Kiribati (Flickr/warrenjackson CC BY-NC 2.0))

10 September 2017

Australian PM announces new Pacific Labour Scheme

by Matthew Dornan

Auckland airport (russellstreet/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)

1 September 2017

Will Australia follow NZ on labour mobility?

by Stephen Howes

Aerial view, Flaxmere, Hastings, NZ (Sean Hamlin/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

23 August 2017

Life as a seasonal worker: reflections of an au piki from Savai’i

by Mitiana Arbon

NUW rally, 2011 (Rae Allen/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

15 August 2017

Where are the unions in seasonal work programs?

by Nic Maclellan

Luggage (Jack Lyons/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

14 August 2017

Intra-regional migration in the Pacific: status and drivers

by Khushbu Rai

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