I have read the report, Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program: demand-side constraints and suggested...
Category - Australian development policy
Benefits of the Seasonal Worker Program: a recruiter’s...
My name is Grant Owen. I spent 25 years in HR before redundancy led me to start Owen Pacific...
Where are all the seasonal workers? The most comprehensive...
The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) continues to grow, but remains a tiny scheme. This year there...
Seasonal Worker Program own goal
This year, for the first time, Australian horticulturalists are facing limits on the number of...
Adrift in a Brisbane fog: the G20’s development agenda
What has the G20 done for low-income countries lately? Qua collective, awkwardly little. From a...
A year in the life: Australia’s integrated aid administration
In September 2013, there was intense media and public interest in the incoming Abbott government’s...
No tipping please: Australia and the UN climate fund
Australia stands as the only wealthy country to have ruled out a contribution to the United Nations...
PACER Plus and labour mobility: how to do a deal
The PACER Plus negotiations drag on, seemingly without end. There are no potential trade gains for...
Another review of the Pacific regional architecture is neither...
The joint announcement by Fiji and Australia that the Pacific regional architecture should be...
Run out of town: aid and the Australia–Cambodia refugee...
Australia’s exports to Cambodia comprise mainly wheat, cereal preparations and now, with the advent...