Within an hour of last week’s deadly attack on Moscow's #CrocusCityHall, a blame game started. #TheGlobalJigsaw tracks the narratives and the counter-narratives underpinned by generous doses of disinformation.
#Russian officials, state media and pro-#Kremlin channels pointed the finger of blame at #Ukraine , downplaying or ignoring the Islamic State #ISIS group’s claim of responsibility.
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Another fallout from the horrific #CrocusCityHall attack in #Moscow: just in the first two days following g it, Human Rights defenders have received more than 2000 reports of abuses against Central Asians in #Russia.
Millions are working there, earning a living for their families back home. #Remittances account for a staggering 50.9% of the GDP of #Tajikistan
With the nation's growing dependence on a Pacific Islander workforce, especially in regional areas, attention is shifting towards improving worker welfare and wellbeing.
He said Pacific Island workers often lived with strangers in sharehouse accommodation and had to navigate expense deductions as well as their obligations to send money to their families back home.
But due to the housing crisis and the need still to negotiate with the states about funding the education of the workers' children, he believes settling worker families in Australia has logistical challenges.
Labour hire companies then established links to agents to recruit workers en masse from Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Fiji and Timor-Leste.
Mr MacRaild said understanding fair work conditions and expense deductions for airfares, rent and transport, taxation and superannuation, had left many workers vulnerable to exploitation over the past decade.
Mr MacRaild said a disciplined worker working overtime could generate a life-changing $20,000 a season, which could pay for school fees, vehicles, and home renovations and repairs to cyclone-damaged homes.
He said living standards were improving beyond anything foreign aid had been able to achieve.
But Mr MacRaild said the the movement of workers to Australia had led to an exodus of young people that was creating social upheaval in participating island nations.
"Many of these people have come leaving their children at home with extended family for months, even years on end," he said.
Seasonal workers and their Australian dollars are changing the Pacific. But at what cost? (www.abc.net.au)
With the nation's growing dependence on a Pacific Islander workforce, especially in regional areas, attention is shifting towards improving worker welfare and wellbeing.