Australia will introduce a permanent residency option for Pacific islanders this year, and has also expanded its short-term labor program - part of the country's wider efforts to counter China's growing influence in the region.
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“If our people are affected by sea level rise, we don’t have a place to go,” Anterea told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from her home in Kiribati’s capital, Tarawa. Pacific workers can earn up to four times as much in Australia or New Zealand, said Richard Curtain, a leading Pacific labour mobility researcher.
Almost a quarter of Fiji’s population lived abroad in 2019, while about 12% of Samoa’s workforce participated in labour schemes in Australia or New Zealand last year, according to an ADB report in December. In both Tonga and Samoa, remittances were the equivalent of about 40% of each country’s gross domestic product in 2022, ADB research showed.
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