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Labor comes close to abolishing the third-year backpacker visa: implications for PALM

Stephen Howes

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21 Sept 2026

Labor has all but scrapped the third-year backpacker visa. Stephen Howes crunches the numbers on what this means for farms and the PALM scheme.About the author/sStephen HowesStephen Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

Labor has all but scrapped the third-year backpacker visa. Stephen Howes crunches the numbers on what this means for farms and the PALM scheme.About the author/s Stephen Howes Stephen Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

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