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Tag - Pacific labour mobility

Will seasonal workers be prioritised over backpackers?

by Stephen Howes and Evie Sharman
November 9, 2021
Photograph of a hospital corridor: ahead three hospital staff accompany a patient being moved on a bed.

Australia needs more Pacific mid-skill migration: here’s how to facilitate it

by Satish Chand, Michael Clemens and Helen Dempster
October 15, 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
October 8, 2021
Farmer Sione Vaianginam with his children on their tractor in Nuku'alofa (ADB-Flickr)

Repairing remittance rules

by Andrew Leigh
October 5, 2021
Clouds over a farm in regional Australia (Anne Moorhead)

Australia at risk of introducing a racist regional visa policy

by Stephen Howes
September 24, 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
September 17, 2021
A man fishing in Nuku'alofa, Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

Tasmania’s ban on Tonga’s SWP workers

by Richard Curtain
September 8, 2021
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.

RSE repatriation: Kiribati needs to step up

by Charlotte Bedford and Richard Bedford
September 3, 2021
Photograph of a single story building with a verandah on which there are three people and some outdoor tables and benches. There are tall palm trees growing around the house and a small van parked in the driveway.

I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand: lived experiences

by Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford and Rena Tekanene
September 1, 2021
Image of a woman with long dark hair, a dark cap and blue jumper using large shears to prune a mandarin tree.

I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand for the long haul

by Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford and Rena Tekanene
August 25, 2021
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