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Notes:
1. Skill Level 1 represents senior management and professional occupations. Skill
Level 2 occupations require at least a tertiary diploma and cover the occupations of
technicians, health and welfare support workers and hospitality, retail and service
managers. Skill Level 3 occupations mostly cover certified trades workers. Skill Level
4 occupations are defined as semi-skilled work, requiring a post-school qualification
of short duration or learning on-the-job for at least three months. Skill Level 5 is
for occupations described as low-skill, requiring a short period of training to do the
work.
2. For the PLS, no information is available on the occupations of the visa holders but
it is assumed for Figure 1 that most jobs are at Skill Level 4 (semi-skilled), with the
exception of known information on six cooks (Skill Level 3) and seven meat workers
(Skill Level 5).
3. For the period July 2018 to early November 2019, the PLS numbers have risen to
Figure 2: Distribution of Pacific source countries for PLS and TSS temporary work 482 visas approved, according to the Pacific Labour Facility’s new website.
visas 2018–19

Despite the rhetoric, and recent policy initiatives, realised opportunities for the Dr Richard Curtain is a Research Fellow with the Development Policy Centre
Pacific and Timor-Leste to undertake non-seasonal work in Australia remain few and ( www.devpolicy.org) at the Australian National University specialising in Pacific labour
far between. The PLS is still new, and is growing rapidly, but we also need to learn mobility. As a public policy consultant, he has worked on labour mobility on assign-
from New Zealand, where Pacific workers are able to compete within general visa ments related to the APTC, and in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands,
categories. Timor-Leste and Tonga. He is the co-author with colleagues at Devpolicy of a paper for the
World Bank on Pacific Labour Mobility.

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