Time for a permanent Australian step-up in Pacific labour mobility
Australia, Dec. 11 -- By Stephen Howes
The best thing to come out of the Pacific Step-up so far has been the promotion of labour mobility. This is the part of the Step-up that most directly addresses the Pacific's most pressing need: employment opportunities. But the gains so far have been limited. The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) predated the Step-up by a decade. The Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS), announced in September 2017, was designed towards the start of the Step-up, but much has changed since then. Indeed, with the Australian Prime Minister now leading the Pacific charge, the Step-up has itself been stepped up.
Accordingly, it's time to re-evaluate our labour mobility efforts.
As welcome as they are as employment opportunities ...
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