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Giving workers access to Medicare and making it easier for them to change jobs would help solve the scheme’s problems

The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme (PALM) is a crucial source of workers across regional Australia. About 32,000 people from nine Pacific nations and Timor-Leste work in Australia under PALM.

Australia relies on seasonal workers, particularly in agriculture and hospitality, to fill shortages of much-needed skills.

Dozens of deaths among workers from Vanuatu in recent years have highlighted the need for better protections, an inquiry has been told.

Olivia Ferney has fast become one of the world's most sought-after luxury travel organizers, with Instagram videos of her staying cool in the face of absurd requests from ultra-high-net-worth clients earning her nearly 300,000 followers. She revealed her clients’ wildest demands to US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill

The family of a PALM worker killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash hope his story sparks change for vulnerable migrants filling labour gaps in rural Australia.

There is an "unseen population" of working migrants seeking urgent reproductive healthcare in rural areas, an inquiry into modern slavery has been told.

Pacific workers are being hindered in accessing their Australian superannuation by tricky rules, access to technology and language barriers.

The fruit, vegetables and meat in Australian's fridges are often picked or processed by migrant workers, who are highly vulnerable to modern slavery.