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Tag - Pacific labour mobility

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

Reforming Pacific Australia Labour Mobility

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
Oct, 2022

PALM reforms submission: The case for industry-managed compliance and how to maximise its effectiveness

by Richard Curtain
Oct, 2022
Samoan seasonal workers heading to Australia in 2021 (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

Recruitment pathways and motivations in Samoa’s new labour trade

by Angela Anya Fatupaito, Leva’a Samoa James Utuva, Sa’u Emo Tauave, Alofipo Siligamanaia Alofipo, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel, Tiffany Arthur and Kalissa Alexeyeff
24 October 2022
APTC training in Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll-DFAT-Flickr)

Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions

by Richard Curtain
20 October 2022
Timorese workers in Australia in 2019 (Seasonal Worker Programme of Timor-Leste-Facebook)

Brain drain 2: general solutions

by Richard Curtain
14 October 2022
Samoan PM visiting RSE workers in New Zealand in June 2022 (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-Facebook)

Brain drain 1: a growing concern

by Richard Curtain
13 October 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
Welcome to Sydney (RicardoCorralT-Flickr)

Australia’s Pacific Engagement Visa: building support infrastructure

by Rochelle Bailey
7 October 2022
Vineyard in New Zealand (Richard Bedford)

The RSE scheme: raising standards to change the narrative

by Charlotte Bedford and Richard Bedford
13 September 2022
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