Tag: Australian aid
Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies
Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID.
It’s “the removal of a huge and...
Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development
RNZ Pacific
Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across...
Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit
PNG Post-Courier
The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the "valley of tears" in...
Marape first global leader to speak in Australian parliament since 2020
By Lawrence Fong of the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea and Australia created another piece of history yesterday when James Marape became the first international...
Australia gifts PNG with vests and helmets ahead of elections
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Australia has gifted Papua New Guinea with 3000 ballistic vests and 3000 helmets which arrived at Jackson’s International Airport...
Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic...
ANALYSIS: By Joanne Wallis and Czeslaw Tubilewicz of the University of Adelaide
The draft security agreement between China and Solomon Islands circulating on social media...
Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga
RNZ News
Twenty-three people onboard an Australian Navy vessel enroute to help with the recovery effort in Tonga have tested positive for covid-19.
In a statement,...
Australia and New Zealand compete with China for Tongan influence
ANALYSIS: By Michael Field in Auckland
Within a day of the massive volcanic eruption that rocked Tonga and severed the archipelago's communications with the rest...
Global aid effort underway for Tonga’s recovery from the Hunga tsunami
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A global aid effort is underway for Tonga with vessels en route to the Pacific kingdom from Australia, the...
Tonga’s King Tupou VI offers hope to families who lost relatives...
Kaniva News
King Tupou VI has offered sympathy and prayers to all those who lost relatives in last weekend's Tongan volcano eruption and tsunami disaster...
Tonga eruption: Airport runway cleared of ash, says WHO official
RNZ Pacific
A World Health Organisation representative in Tonga says the international airport has been cleared of volcanic ash which will allow humanitarian aid flights...
PNG auditor calls for ‘sanctions’ in private probe over medicines row
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Auditor-General has questioned who approved a US-based international auditing firm to audit the awarding of contracts...
$154m earmarked for development assistance in Fiji
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Fiji expects a total value of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2019-2020 to be F$154.4 million, reports FBC News.
According to FBC's...
Dan McGarry: Want to lead in the Pacific? Try listening first
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
The average Australian’s conception of Pacific island nations is so limited it makes some of us wonder if they...
Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Tropical Cyclone Pam brought wide-spread devastation to Vanuatu nearly two years ago.
It also brought an outpouring of aid - including 70...
