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Tag - Backpackers

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes
3 June 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
12 November 2021

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

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

Foreign workers on Australian farms: not if but how

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

Working Holiday Makers not a long-term solution for horticulture

by Beth Orton
19 August 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
21 March 2020

The horticulture labour shortage myth

by Henry Sherrell
1 November 2019

The backpacker visa is morphing into an unregulated agricultural one

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

Revisiting the agricultural visa

by Stephen Howes
3 May 2019

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