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Tag - Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP)

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
November 7, 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
Children at kindergarten in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

Pacific migrant workers and the social costs of family separation

by Matt Withers
August 16, 2022

New government confirms its new Pacific migration policies

by Evie Sharman
June 10, 2022

The Coalition and labour mobility: success, to a point

by Stephen Howes
June 3, 2022

Pacific labour mobility growth: winners and losers

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes
May 6, 2022

Learning about agriculture from the SWP

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

Labor promises to inaugurate a new era of Pacific labour mobility

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
April 28, 2022

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

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes
April 1, 2022

Why absconding hasn’t been a problem in New Zealand’s RSE

by Charlotte Bedford
March 18, 2022
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