Natassia Chrysanthos

Allegations of sexual assault involving men and boys tied to powerful institutions are back in the headlines again. It’s depressingly familiar.

We travelled to Fiji and Vanuatu to hear firsthand from workers, families and communities about the scheme’s increasingly complex legacy in the Pacific. But we didn’t need to leave the main cities before hearing stories of families fractured or torn apart under the pressure of prolonged distance.

While Barnaby Joyce said 130,000 had been One Nation’s migration target “all along”, Pauline Hanson deleted a social media post saying otherwise. The difference is more than 200,000 people.

While Barnaby Joyce said 130,000 had been One Nation’s migration target “all along”, Pauline Hanson deleted a social media post saying otherwise. The difference is more than 200,000 people.

The federal government’s migration reforms could be pushed back up to a month, with industry group seizing on the delay to lobby against reducing temporary worker numbers.

More than 30,000 men and women with PALM visas are working in Australia at any one time, mostly in farms and abattoirs. They leave their families behind in the Pacific and Timor-Leste, fly to Australia alongside tourists returning from holidays, then disperse across the country for short-term placements of up to nine months or long-term placements of up to four years. Overnight, they move from earning an hourly minimum wage between $1 and $4 in their home countries, to more than $26 an hour in Australia.

One Nation MPs have given a series of different interpretations of their migration plan in recent days after elevating the issue of immigration for months.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has again appeared to confuse her party's immigration policy despite more than a week of scrutiny over her