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Photography of backpacks on a luggage trolley on a train stations platform.

12 November 2021

Third-year backpacker visa proves popular

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

9 November 2021

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

Threshing rice in Bercoli, Timor-Leste (Lisa Palmer)

2 November 2021

Life and governance in the rice fields of Timor-Leste

by Lisa Palmer

Clouds over a farm in regional Australia (Anne Moorhead)

24 September 2021

Australia at risk of introducing a racist regional visa policy

by Stephen Howes

Photography of four people harvesting apples.

10 September 2021

Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa

by Richard Curtain

Close-up photograph of an orange on a tree. There is text over the photo which reads "Australian Agriculture Visa. The Nationals for Regional Australia."

24 August 2021

Yesterday’s regional visa announcement: the end of the PLS?

by Stephen Howes

Two people hand harvesting grapes at Granton Vineyard in Tasmania

23 July 2021

Foreign workers on Australian farms: not if but how

by Stephen Howes

7 June 2021

A policy to boost PNG’s rural economy

by Rohan Fox

Stakeholders including RSE workers met in Vanuatu for the 2019 RSE Conference

7 May 2021

Government’s role in the RSE: response to Richard Curtain

by Charlotte Bedford, Heather Nunns and Richard Bedford

5 May 2021

Why has Mauritius left Fiji so far behind?

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

29 April 2021

Fruit pickers want to choose their own path

by Michael Rose

28 April 2021

Opting out of the SWP: the absconders’ story

by Michael Rose

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