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Tag - Backpackers

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes
June 3, 2022
Photography of backpacks on a luggage trolley on a train stations platform.

Third-year backpacker visa proves popular

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
November 12, 2021

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
November 9, 2021
Two people hand harvesting grapes at Granton Vineyard in Tasmania

Foreign workers on Australian farms: not if but how

by Stephen Howes
July 23, 2021
(Unsplash/Liz Caldwell)

Working Holiday Makers not a long-term solution for horticulture

by Beth Orton
August 19, 2020
Keeping our supermarkets stocked with fruit and vegetables will be a key policy challenge in the coming months (Credit Shelley Pauls on Unsplash)

COVID-19 and the horticultural sector: addressing the pending labour supply shortfall

by Henry Sherrell and Stephen Howes
March 21, 2020

The horticulture labour shortage myth

by Henry Sherrell
November 1, 2019

The backpacker visa is morphing into an unregulated agricultural one

by Beth Orton and Stephen Howes
October 17, 2019
(Flickr/US Department of Agriculture/CC BY 2.0)

Revisiting the agricultural visa

by Stephen Howes
May 3, 2019

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