Tag: Penny Wong
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...
Open letter: AWPA calls on Wong to protest to Jakarta over...
OPEN LETTER: To Australia's Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong
Dear Foreign Minister,
I am writing to you on behalf of the Australia West Papua Association in...
Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza
By Wendy Bacon in Sydney
Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have...
Why have Albanese and other politicians been referred to the ICC...
ANALYSIS: By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University
In an unprecedented legal development, senior Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have been referred to the...
The silent war – Australia and Indonesia mum on Papuan human...
An Australian academic has lit the fuse of diplomatic fury by publicly criticising Indonesia’s brutal response to the Papuan independence movement, a sensitive topic...
ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The ABC has soundly condemned the Solomon Islands Office of the Prime Minister for a series of "factual errors" in a...
Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the censoring of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) as an "assault...
In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing...
ANALYSIS: By Patricia A. O'Brien, Georgetown University
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was no doubt expecting a cooler reception than her three previous visits to...
Pacific security should be a matter for ‘Pacific family’, says Wong
RNZ Pacific
Australia should be more engaged in the Pacific, something the previous government failed to do sufficiently, says Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Wong was...
As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within...
‘We’re listening and we’ll do better’, new minister Wong tells Pacific
RNZ Pacific
Australia's newly sworn-in Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, says the new Labor government "will be a generous, respectful and reliable member of the Pacific...
Solomons security shambles, and now it’s time for realism over hype
ANALYSIS: By Terence Wood
A spectre is haunting the Pacific. It is focused on Solomon Islands today, but has eyes everywhere and might pounce...
Dan McGarry: How to do something about Australia’s Pacific ‘stuff up’
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry
If the coming election goes to Australia’s Labor party, Penny Wong is very likely to become Foreign Minister. So...
