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World Bank report launch: Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme
Event details
Launch
Date & time
Wednesday 28 March 2018
12.30pm–2.00pm
Venue
Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Road, ANU
Speaker
Various speakers, including members of Parliament, employers and sending countries.
Contacts
The Seasonal Worker Programme now attracts over 6,000 workers each year from the Pacific and Timor-Leste to Australia to work on Australian farms. From 2015 to 2017, the World Bank carried out a comprehensive evaluation examining the impacts of the scheme. Its new report, Maximizing the Development Impacts from Temporary Migration: Recommendations for Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme, examines the benefits and costs of the scheme for households in the Pacific, as well as the experiences of workers in Australia, and includes recommendations for reform.
This public forum will launch and discuss the report.
Speakers include:
Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Minister for International Development and the Pacific
Senator Claire Moore, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific
Jesse Doyle, Social Protection Economist, World Bank
Michel Kerf, Country Director - Papua New Guinea & Pacific Islands, World Bank
Michael Fryszer, Managing Director, Connect Group
Melissa Denning, Assistant Labour Attache, Embassy of Timor-Leste
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