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Papua New Guinean passports (Credit: evietnamvisa.com)

4 October 2018

How can Papua New Guinea gain more opportunities for seasonal work in Australia and New Zealand?

by Richard Curtain

(Areta Ekarafi/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

3 October 2018

Structural changes for SWP: lessons from New Zealand

by Richard Curtain

2 October 2018

Overhauling the Seasonal Worker Programme

by Stephen Howes

(Marko Mikkonen/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

28 September 2018

Proposed backpacker visa reform will increase worker exploitation and cause strategic damage

by Stephen Howes

Interim TB ward in Daru, PNG, constructed in 2012 (DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

28 September 2018

Poverty driving TB in Papua New Guinea

by Joyce Sauk

Visas for Australia and New Zealand (Jeff Nelson/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

26 September 2018

Are Pacific islanders making a career out of seasonal work in Australia? No.

by Stephen Howes

Tapaka Tonga (Credit: World Bank)

24 September 2018

Tonga’s tobacco taxes

by Sutayut Osornprasop

Papua New Guinea Kina

21 September 2018

Counterarguments to the devaluation of the PNG Kina

by David Lea

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives at the 2018 Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Nauru (Credit: PIFS)

19 September 2018

Play the ball, not the person: NZ media commentary on the PIF

by Bruce Hill

A restaurant at Muri Lagoon, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (Credit: Denis Tolkach)

17 September 2018

Tourism and development in the Pacific: possible or improbable?

by Denis Tolkach, Joseph Cheer and Stephen Pratt

Workers in the Pacific Labour Mobility Program (DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

13 September 2018

Is a new visa for agricultural work needed?

by Matthew Dornan, Stephen Howes and Richard Curtain

2018 Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting group photo (Credit: PIFS)

12 September 2018

The Nauru 2018 Pacific Islands Forum: the new Boe on the block, and more

by Matthew Dornan and Tess Newton Cain

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