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Backpacker in Cairns (Jo Christian Oterhals-Flickr)

27 January 2022

The horticulture ‘labour crisis’ needs a calm, PALM response

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes

Seasonal workers stranded in Australia (Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania)

13 January 2022

Less worker exploitation under the SWP

by Mark Zirnsak

Auckland Airport (Chun Xia-Flickr)

10 December 2021

Quarantine-free travel for RSE workers: the challenges of two-way labour flows

by Charlotte Bedford

Kiwifruit orchard, New Zealand (Sheila Thomson-Flickr)

9 December 2021

An unseasonable year: Pacific RSE workers to New Zealand during 2021

by Charlotte Bedford

RG Casey Building in Barton Canberra

8 December 2021

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

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

9 November 2021

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman

ni-Vanuatu workers back home after working in Australia on the SWP scheme (World Bank-Flickr)

8 October 2021

The PLS in the press: a need for better analysis

by Michael Rose and Stephen Howes

Clouds over a farm in regional Australia (Anne Moorhead)

24 September 2021

Australia at risk of introducing a racist regional visa policy

by Stephen Howes

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.

17 September 2021

PLS+SWP=PALM: more questions than acronyms

by Stephen Howes

Photography of four people harvesting apples.

10 September 2021

Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa

by Richard Curtain

A man fishing in Nuku'alofa, Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

8 September 2021

Tasmania’s ban on Tonga’s SWP workers

by Richard Curtain

Image shows the view from an airplane over the wing. There are clouds in the mid distance and below there is the ocean in varying shades of blue, golden sands, and green vegetation.

3 September 2021

RSE repatriation: Kiribati needs to step up

by Charlotte Bedford and Richard Bedford

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