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Tag - Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM)

Timorese workers in Australia in 2019 (Seasonal Worker Programme of Timor-Leste-Facebook)

Brain drain 2: general solutions

by Richard Curtain
October 14, 2022
Samoan PM visiting RSE workers in New Zealand in June 2022 (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-Facebook)

Brain drain 1: a growing concern

by Richard Curtain
October 13, 2022
A Tongan PALM worker at Newton Orchards (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

Labour mobility in the Pacific: transformational and/or negligible?

by Stephen Howes, Richard Curtain and Evie Sharman
October 10, 2022
Welcome to Sydney (RicardoCorralT-Flickr)

Australia’s Pacific Engagement Visa: building support infrastructure

by Rochelle Bailey
October 7, 2022
Children at kindergarten in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

Pacific migrant workers and the social costs of family separation

by Matt Withers
August 16, 2022
PALM workers in Australia in November 2021 (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

It’s time for a minimum earning guarantee for Pacific workers

by Evie Sharman
August 15, 2022
Getting on the bus in Tonga (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

Three questions on Tongan remittances

by Ryan Edwards, Matthew Dornan, Dung Doan and Toan Nguyen
July 20, 2022

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes
June 3, 2022

Labour mobility campaign wrap: both parties make major commitments

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes
May 19, 2022

Pacific labour mobility growth: winners and losers

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes
May 6, 2022
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