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Tag - Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS)

Photograph of Seasonal workers from Timor-Leste

Labour mobility and remittances in the Pacific during COVID-19

by Dung Doan and Kirstie Petrou
4 March 2022
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"

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

by Stephen Howes
11 February 2022

Absconding for asylum: Pacific temporary workers in Australia

by Stephen Howes
4 February 2022
RG Casey Building in Barton Canberra

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Aid and Labour Mobility

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
8 December 2021

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
9 November 2021
ni-Vanuatu workers back home after working in Australia on the SWP scheme (World Bank-Flickr)

The PLS in the press: a need for better analysis

by Michael Rose and Stephen Howes
8 October 2021
Clouds over a farm in regional Australia (Anne Moorhead)

Australia at risk of introducing a racist regional visa policy

by Stephen Howes
24 September 2021
Photograph of a palm tree behind which is a low brick wall and a harbour full of small sailing vessels, taken in Majuro in the Marshall Islands.

PLS+SWP=PALM: more questions than acronyms

by Stephen Howes
17 September 2021
Photography of four people harvesting apples.

Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa

by Richard Curtain
10 September 2021
A man fishing in Nuku'alofa, Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

Tasmania’s ban on Tonga’s SWP workers

by Richard Curtain
8 September 2021
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