Richard Baker’s recent series on labour conditions and recruitment practices in the Australian meat...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
Australia at risk of introducing a racist regional visa policy
Arguments against the new Australian Agricultural visa have so far focused on its rushed...
PLS+SWP=PALM: more questions than acronyms
This week the Australian Government announced a “new era for Pacific Australia labour mobility”. A...
Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa
Much about the new Australian Agricultural visa smacks of poor public policy. Four flaws stand out:...
Tasmania’s ban on Tonga’s SWP workers
As noted in my previous blog, since the restart of Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) and...
RSE repatriation: Kiribati needs to step up
When New Zealand closed its international border on 19 March 2020 following the onset of the COVID...
I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand: lived...
As recounted in our first blog, 286 I-Kiribati workers, including 97 women, have been in New...
I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand for the long...
On 1 August 2021, 16 months after New Zealand and Kiribati closed their international borders in...
Yesterday’s regional visa announcement: the end of the PLS?
In my last blog on the subject, I set out three ways by which the June ASEAN agricultural visa...
APTC’s labour mobility mandate: 16 years on
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (formerly College) was announced in 2005 by then Prime...