Senate debates
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
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Vanuatu-Australia Nakamal Agreement
6:29 pm
Jessica Collins (NSW, Liberal Party) | Hansard source
workers for Australian farms, aged care, meatworks. We've got important money flowing back into the region, providing economic sustainability to many of these islands where economic diversification is a very difficult thing to achieve. Currently, we have 33,160 people employed in Australia through the PALM scheme, sending remittances home. Let me put it into perspective for you. In a country like Tonga, at a minimum, 50 per cent of its GDP comes from money sent home from—
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