{"id":7386,"date":"2019-08-19T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/19\/tuvalu-threatens-to-exit-australias-seasonal-worker-program-after-deputy-pms-comments"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:33:51","slug":"tuvalu-threatens-to-exit-australias-seasonal-worker-program-after-deputy-pms-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7386","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu threatens to exit Australia&#8217;s seasonal worker program after deputy PM&#8217;s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack\u2019s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they \u2018pick our fruit\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia\u2019s seasonal worker program, after comments by Australia\u2019s deputy prime minister that Pacific islanders threatened by climate change would survive because \u201cmany of their workers come here and pick our fruit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the Australian labour scheme was determined on mutual respect, that Australia was also benefiting,\u201d Enele Sopoaga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/pacific\/396972\/australian-pm-s-attitude-neo-colonial-says-tuvalu\">told RNZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/19\/tuvalu-threatens-to-exit-australias-seasonal-worker-program-after-deputy-pms-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack\u2019s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they \u2018pick our fruit\u2019The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia\u2019s seasonal worker program, after comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,324,326,534,618,619,581,282,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-climate-change","category-coalition","category-michael-mccormack","category-national-party","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-south-pacific","category-tuvalu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}