Promoted as a win-win, Australia’s Pacific island guest worker scheme is putting those workers at risk
- Written by Matt Withers, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Australian National University
The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme (PALM) has been lauded by bothsides of politics as a “win win” for the islanders who come here and the Australians who use their services.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs has even labelled it a “triple win”, for the workers, their hosts and for their home nations...
