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  • 1 month ago | theaustraliatoday.com.au | Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |Rubayat Chowdhury

    By Stephen Howes, Terence Wood, and Rubayat ChowdhuryMost Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% tariff.) Three Pacific nations were given higher rates: Vanuatu (23%), Nauru (30%) and Fiji (32%). Two Pacific countries were left out of the tariff list altogether: Niue and Palau.

  • Feb 16, 2025 | theaustraliatoday.com.au | Alyssa Leng |Ryan Edwards |Terence Wood

    By Alyssa Leng, Ryan Edwards, and Terence WoodA lot has changed in the Pacific-Australia migration landscape over the last decade. To mention a few big and recent changes, the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) commenced in 2018, the PLS and the Seasonal Worker Program were merged into the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme in 2022, and new permanent migration pathways were introduced in 2024 with the Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) and the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union.

  • Feb 14, 2025 | thenational.com.pg | Ryan Edwards |Alyssa Leng |Terence Wood

    IN previous blogs in this series, we’ve shown that while people in Australia are generally happy with current immigration policy settings toward the Pacific (part 1), there is less support for the rest of the migration programme, apart from skilled migration. People’s perceptions of migrants across the board are also very inaccurate (part 2). Does providing people with information change these views?

  • Feb 12, 2025 | devpolicy.org | Alyssa Leng |Ryan Edwards |Terence Wood

    In previous blogs in this series, we’ve shown that while people in Australia are generally happy with current immigration policy settings toward the Pacific (part 1), there is less support for the rest of the migration program, apart from skilled migration. People’s perceptions of migrants across the board are also very inaccurate (part 2). Does providing people with information change these views?

  • Feb 6, 2025 | devpolicy.org | Terence Wood

    Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work still covered by the freeze, the apparent demise of USAID, the sheer capriciousness of the decision.

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