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Australia’s Pacific worker scheme is far from perfect – but we can make it better

  • Written by Peter Mares, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme (PALM) is a crucial source of workers across regional Australia. About 32,000 people from nine Pacific nations and Timor-Leste work in Australia under PALM.

Over seven months of researching the scheme – interviewing workers, employers, country liaison officers, trade union organisers, community...

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