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Samoan workers on ladders in a New Zealand orchard

7 November 2022

Growing pains: Samoa’s participation in New Zealand and Australia’s Pacific labour schemes

by Charlotte Bedford

A Tongan PALM worker at Newton Orchards (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

10 October 2022

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

by Stephen Howes, Richard Curtain and Evie Sharman

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Fijian students, July 2022

1 September 2022

The Pacific Labour Scheme and the Royal Commission into Aged Care

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

Children at kindergarten in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

16 August 2022

Pacific migrant workers and the social costs of family separation

by Matt Withers

10 June 2022

New government confirms its new Pacific migration policies

by Evie Sharman

3 June 2022

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes

6 May 2022

Pacific labour mobility growth: winners and losers

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes

28 April 2022

Labor promises to inaugurate a new era of Pacific labour mobility

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

PLS participants prepare to leave Fiji for Australia, April 2022 (Fijian Government-Facebook)

11 April 2022

A pathway to permanency for Pacific meat workers

by Stephen Howes and Richard Curtain

1 April 2022

Seasonal work at the Job Security Inquiry: what did we learn?

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes

Photograph of Seasonal workers from Timor-Leste

4 March 2022

Labour mobility and remittances in the Pacific during COVID-19

by Dung Doan and Kirstie Petrou

Image of tweet from @Menlu_RI (Retno Marsudi, Foreign Minister of Indonesia). Text says: "Kicking things off for 2022 with my good friend FM @MarisePayne Flag of IndonesiaFlag of Australia Exchanged communication on Indonesia's participation in Australian Agriculture Visa Program (19/01). Received assurances that it would allow Indonesian migrant workers w dignified, safe, & rewarding employment"

11 February 2022

Rationale fades as ag visa details emerge. Will Indonesia decide to antagonise the Pacific?

by Stephen Howes

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