By Terence Wood How should Australia and New Zealand respond to the COVID-19 crisis in the Pacific? Aid isn’t the only way we can assist. In coming years, allowing more Pacific migration, for example, will speed economic recovery. But the…
Dear Editor, Please consider this letter. Australia’s minister for the Pacific, Alex Hawke, said his country was committed to tackling Covid-19 with its Pacific partners, as part of its Pacific step-up strategy. “We have never faced a challenge of the…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison assured Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare during a telephone conversation on 1 April that Australia’s support for the Solomon Islands in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic was utterly firm. Prime Minister Morrison said he had reminded…
The new international development framework presents a strategic choice for Australia: will it use its development program to ‘gain influence’, to counter the growing power of China? Or will it tackle deeper but more intractable drivers of regional conflict, economic…