One of Scott Morrison’s biggest announcements from last August’s 51st Pacific Islands Forum was to...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
Learning about agriculture from the SWP
An important aspect of Pacific Island workers’ experience participating in seasonal labour programs...
Labor promises to inaugurate a new era of Pacific labour mobility
On Tuesday, Australia’s Labor Party proposed four big new Pacific labour mobility reforms...
Seasonal work at the Job Security Inquiry: what did we learn?
Last month, the Australian Senate Select Committee on Job Security held two hearings into the...
Why absconding hasn’t been a problem in New Zealand’s RSE
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of workers under Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program...
Labour mobility and remittances in the Pacific during COVID-19
When our team at the World Bank set out to measure how temporary migrant workers from the Pacific...
New Zealand’s summer harvest woes
When one-way quarantine-free travel (QFT) was introduced in October 2021 for Samoa, Tonga and...
Rationale fades as ag visa details emerge. Will Indonesia decide...
The last couple of months have seen a significant amount of information released on the new visa...
Absconding for asylum: Pacific temporary workers in Australia
There has been an upsurge in temporary workers from the Pacific and Timor-Leste absconding over the...
Tonga’s volcanic eruption: impacts on seasonal workers in...
At the time of Tonga’s volcanic eruption and tsunami which began on 14 January 2022, there were an...