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Tag - Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP)

Beyond blackbirds: a response

by Kirstie Petrou and John Connell
27 July 2023
Pacific Islanders planting sugar cane at Seaforth, Queensland, c. 1890s

Pacific seasonal workers: not the new blackbirds

by Stephen Howes and Richard Curtain
18 July 2023
Samoan workers on ladders in a New Zealand orchard

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

by Charlotte Bedford
7 November 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
10 October 2022
Children at kindergarten in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

Pacific migrant workers and the social costs of family separation

by Matt Withers
16 August 2022

New government confirms its new Pacific migration policies

by Evie Sharman
10 June 2022

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes
3 June 2022

Pacific labour mobility growth: winners and losers

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes
6 May 2022

Learning about agriculture from the SWP

by Federico Davila, Olivia Dun, Carol Farbotko, Natascha Klocker, Ema Vueti, Lavinia Kaumaitotoya and Brent Jacobs
29 April 2022

Labor promises to inaugurate a new era of Pacific labour mobility

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
28 April 2022
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