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Subjects: PNG NRL Franchise; Pacific Security Relationships; Solomon Islands Ministerial Visit; Solomon Islands Infrastructure Investment; Kongsberg Defence Australia Project Newcastle

Subjects: $20 million to support the Solomon Islands, Australia’s defence spending, NATO’s security spending target.

PNG NRL Franchise; PNG NRL Franchise Interim Board Announcement; PNG and Australia Security Relationship

PNG NRL Franchise Board Announcement, PNG-Australia Bilateral Defence Treaty, Solomon Islands Relations

Subjects: Australia’s agreement to secure an NRL team for Papua New Guinea, China’s security interest in the Pacific, strategic trust between Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: PNG team to enter the National Rugby League, PNG- Australia relations.

Subjects: Meeting with Solomon Islands ministers, Australia’s security partnership with the Solomon Islands, Pacific climate change initiatives

Subjects: Pacific Policing Initiative, Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting 2024, climate change initiatives in the Pacific.

Subjects: Illegal fishing in the Pacific, $5.9B Pacific Maritime Security Program.

Subjects: PALM Scheme, $8 million partnership with the International Organisation of Migration, Pacific Policing Initiative.

Subjects: Pacific Islands Forum, CFMEU administration.

Subjects: The Pacific Engagement Visa selection process, impact of the Pacific Engagement Visa scheme.

Subjects: Landslide in Papua New Guinea, Australian support for Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Update on Papua New Guinea landslide recovery, Australia’s assistance to Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Landslide in Papua New Guinea, Australian support for Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Papua New Guinea landslides, Hamas-Israel conflict.

Subjects: Australian aid to PNG following landslide, defence force retention rates, nuclear power, antisemitism and islamaphobia, rugby league.

Subjects: Papua New Guinea landslides, Hamas-Israel conflict.

Subjects: Repatriating Australians in New Caledonia, Landslide in Papua New Guinea.

Repatriating Australians in New Caledonia.

Evacuation of Australians in New Caledonia, Nauru banking, nuclear power, Papua New Guinea Relationship

Subjects: Evacuation of Australians in New Caledonia

Subjects: Australia-Fiji Vuvale partnership.

Subjects: MOU on port infrastructure and services, MOU on cyber security cooperation, $100 million Pacific aviation partnership

Subjects: Bondi Junction Incident, Iran – Israel conflict, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin appointment as special advisor, AUKUS.

Subjects: Deal to supply boxer vehicles to Germany, visit to Fiji and sporting diplomacy, banking in Nauru.

Pacific Patrol Boat Program, Falepili Union, Nauru banking

Whole of nation aid policy, Australia's aid role in the Pacific, IFAD

PacificAus Sports Partnership

Subjects: Tuvalu, AUKUS analysis, Surface fleet review

Pacific Island rugby, Falepili Union, surface fleet review, PNG security, Vanuatu security

Subjects: Australia-PNG relationship, surface fleet review

Subjects: renewable energy, bigger tax cuts for more Australians, fuel efficiency standards, Papua New Guinea relationship, Middle East, consideration of new governor general.

Subjects: China and PNG in discussions over policing cooperation, bilateral security implementation package, Pacific Australia Labour Viability Scheme.

Subjects: Contract with Lockheed Martin Australia, Defence Strategic Review, Joint Strike Fighter Development Program, Disposal Strategy for Taipan helicopters, Nauru, Middle East.

Subjects: Security deal with Papua New Guinea, Bilateral Security Agreement, Virginia-Class submarines.

Subjects: Australia-Fiji relationship, shared passion for rugby, PacificAus Sports program, funding for high performance pathways, invitation to Fiji, PM Rabuka’s first official visit, social and economic development, result of the Voice referendum.

Subjects: PNG-Australia partnership, shared love of rugby league, warm welcome for Australian PM’s XIII teams, Australia’s support for rugby league in PNG, developing player pathways, PM’s XIII men’s and women’s games, prospects for PNG team in the NRL.

Subjects: Australia-PNG rugby league ties, PNG involvement in the NRL, expansion of rugby league in the Pacific.

Subjects: Australia’s new international development policy, monitoring and evaluation of development effectiveness, Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040.

Subjects: Visit to Tuvalu, International Court of Justice case, action on climate change, Australia’s development assistance in the Pacific, the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme (PALM), relationship between Australia and Tuvalu

Subjects: Australia’s new international development policy, official development assistance, infrastructure projects, gender equality targets in Australia’s development investments.

Subjects: Australia’s new international development policy, the new $250 million Australian Development Investment vehicle to encourage private investment, infrastructure investments, climate, the Voice, First Nations’ links with the Pacific.

Subjects: Australia’s new international development policy, increasing Australia’s influence in the region and lifting people out of poverty, investing in high quality infrastructure that generates local jobs, climate and gender targets.

Subjects: Taipan helicopter crash; Australia supplying the US with missiles; Solomon Islands Defence Force.

Subjects: Australia’s development partnership with Solomon Islands, Australia-China relations, education scholarships, support for Solomon Islands National University and University of the South Pacific

Subjects: Solomon Islands-Australia relations, Pacific Engagement Visa, Pacific Islands Forum.

Subjects: Papua New Guinea’s bid for a team in Australia’s National Rugby League

Subjects: Australia’s support to increase digital connectivity in Palau, maritime security concerns, President Whipps’ support for AUKUS, ship visits, surface fleet review, Australia’s support for elections in Solomon Islands.

Subjects: Flight from Brisbane to Koror, Palau-Australia relationship, Blue Dot Network and quality infrastructure, Japanese release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, signing of an MOU between EcoParadise FM and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Subjects: US-Pacific Island Forum Dialogue, listening to Pacific priorities, US involvement in the Pacific, Australia PNG defence cooperation, Bilateral Security Treaty, amplifying Pacific voices.

Subjects: Budget, responding to Pacific priorities, Pacific security, climate change investments, Pacific Engagement Visa, Official Development Assistance

Subjects: ANZAC Day; Australia-Papua New Guinea relations; Defence Strategic Review.

Subjects: Bomana War Cemetery; ANZAC Day.

Subjects: Disaster assistance for Vanuatu, climate change, Security agreement with Vanuatu, AUKUS agreement, Pacific Labour Scheme.

Subjects: Visit to Vanuatu, Australia-Vanuatu partnership, additional cyclone assistance, development cooperation, Pacific Australia Labour Mobility program, climate change advocacy, visa processing office in Port Vila.

Subjects: Visit to Samoa, support for Manu Samoa, PacificAus Sports partnership, AUKUS consultation, Australia-Samoa relations, patrol boat, labour mobility, Australia Pacific Training College, sports facilities.

Subjects: Australian-Samoan relations, Geostrategic interests in the Pacific, Pacific Engagement Visa.

Subjects: Tasmania’s defence industry, Australia’s support for Vanuatu after Tropical Cyclone Judy, hypocritical comments by Liberal MP Gavin Pearce regarding defence contracts, opportunities for local defence industry

Subjects: Pacific Engagement Visa, Operation Sovereign Borders.

Subjects: New Pacific Engagement Visa, Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme, Operation Sovereign Borders.

Subjects: Earthquake in Türkiye, Australian assistance for search and rescue efforts in Türkiye, humanitarian support.

Subjects: Papua New Guinea, Bilateral security treaty.

Subjects: Australia-Vanuatu Bilateral Security Agreement, Pacific Maritime Security Program, climate change, Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) program, meeting returned workers at Mele village.

Subjects: Bilateral security agreement between Australia and Vanuatu; launch of Guardian class patrol vessels; security in the Pacific; death of Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold.

Subjects: Australia’s cross-party delegation to the Pacific, Pacific Labour Scheme, China in the Pacific

Subjects: Australia’s development program, aid effectiveness, wew International Development Policy South-East Asia, Pacific.

Subjects: Climate change, 75th anniversary of the South Pacific Commission, COP27, Cybersecurity.

Subjects: COP27, Pacific development assistance, climate change loss and damage discussion.

UN Climate Summit, Glasgow COP emission targets, Climate funding for developing countries.

Subjects: COP27, impact of climate change in the Pacific

Subjects: Australia’s development assistance, NRL, the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, the Indo-Pacific Broadcasting Strategy, support for NBC.

Subjects: visit to PNG, Australian development cooperation, the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility, Bougainville peace process, support for border surveillance.

Subjects: October 2022 Budget, Investment in the Pacific, COP-27

Subjects: Washington visit, AUKUS, Future support for Ukraine; Missile industry.

Subjects: Solomon Islands, China, Climate Change, Climate Action, Pacific Island Forum, Pacific Labour Scheme.

Subjects: Solomon Islands hosting Pacific Games; Delaying election; China-Taiwan relations.

Subjects: Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, Australia Pacific Training Coalition centre, unexploded ordnances, Pacific Games support, China.

Subjects: PNG team in the NRL, sports led diplomacy, Pacific Islands-Australian relationship.

Subjects: Pacific Islands Forum, climate change, COVID recovery, COP29 hosting, Vanuatu request to ICJ, emissions target, US-Pacific relations, Australian assistance to Kiribati, 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, Pacific labour mobility.

Subjects: Pacific Island Forum unity, UNFCCC, Pacific Australian Labour Mobility Scheme.

Subjects: Pacific Islands Forum, Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum, impact of climate change on Pacific Islands.

Subjects: Pacific Islands Forum, Solomon Islands, China.

Subjects: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda.

Subjects: China relationship, Pacific Islands Forum, Assistance and aid, Climate change, Offshore processing, Labour visas

Subjects: AUKUS, China-Pacific relations

Subjects: Pacific Island Forum, Australia's relationship with Indonesia and migration between the countries.