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Seasonal workers waiting for their repatriation flight from New Zealand (Saksak Temar)

10 July 2020

RSE COVID-19 responses, getting Pacific seasonal workers home

by Charlotte Bedford

Workers being transferred from Central Otago to Blenheim and enjoying the snow on the way (Credit: Saksak Temar)

9 July 2020

RSE COVID-19 responses, supporting seasonal workers in New Zealand

by Charlotte Bedford

Family fishing on Funafala, Tuvalu (Credit: Carol Farbotko)

8 July 2020

Youth resilience to COVID-19: indigenous knowledge in Tuvalu

by Taukiei Kitara and Carol Farbotko

Employees preparing ginger for processing at the Kaiming Agro Processing facility in Fiji (Credit: PTI Australia)

7 July 2020

Extreme weather and COVID-19 impact Pacific exporters

by Caleb Jarvis

TESTING

30 June 2020

Bartering in Samoa during COVID-19

by Ramona Boodoosingh

29 June 2020

PNG and the next pandemic

by Joseph Pundu and Patrick Kaiku

Timor-Leste WASH COVID-19

24 June 2020

In Timor-Leste, WASH investments help drive COVID-19 success

by Edd Wright

Artwork on the roadside in Madang town in PNG as part of the Madang Provincial Authority’s health communication strategy during COVID-19 (Photo credit: Professor Fr. Philip Gibbs)

22 June 2020

COVID-19 messages and PNG sociocultural beliefs

by Gabriel Kuman

Past participants in the SWP from Kiribati (Credit: DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

19 June 2020

Pacific labour mobility in the media spotlight

by Stephen Howes

Apples are one of many late summer crops that rely on seasonal workers for harvesting (Credit: Joanna Nix on Unsplash)

18 June 2020

A major labour shortage at harvest time is looming

by Richard Curtain

The Pacifika Women Network Trade Centre reopened in May after closing its operations for eight weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdown (Photo credit: Jotam Sinopane)

18 June 2020

How to spend K320m to support PNG agriculture, households and businesses

by Jotam Sinopane

Staff in the Lae studios of the National Broadcasting Corporation of Papua New Guinea (Jacqueline Smart Ferguson/AusAID/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

17 June 2020

The importance of radio for PNG’s COVID-19 school response

by Fredrick Guande

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