This blog is a summary of recent research from the National University of Samoa’s Centre for Samoan...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions
The first blog in this series of three outlined the growing concern about brain drain among Pacific...
The Pacific: emerging from COVID, slowly
The impact of COVID-19 on the economies of the Pacific island region has been much more severe than...
Brain drain 2: general solutions
As the first blog in this series outlined, the terms ‘labour loss’, ‘skills shortage’, and the more...
Brain drain 1: a growing concern
In May 2018 I wrote on Devpolicy Blog, “It is vital [that] Australia’s new efforts to promote...
Labour mobility in the Pacific: transformational and/or...
The promotion of Pacific labour mobility has widespread, bipartisan support in Australia these...
Australia’s Pacific Engagement Visa: building support...
Beginning in mid-2023, the Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) will allow up to 3,000 people to migrate...
The RSE scheme: raising standards to change the narrative
The annual Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) conference, this year held in Wellington under the...
The Pacific Labour Scheme and the Royal Commission into Aged Care
In Suva, new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took a smiling selfie with Fijian aged care workers...
The Pacific Engagement Visa is going to be incredibly popular
The new Australian government has announced it will introduce a new permanent visa for the Pacific...