Pacific Islands Forum

Pacific foreign policy means leveraging geographic advantage and respecting regional leaders’ integrity, the Samoan PM says.

Although the Pacific is beautiful, its ever-changing environment provides significant challenges for agriculture, says Dr Audrey Aumua.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe will attend the G20 meeting of G20 central bank governors in Indonesia.

Burke will take part in the 30th Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, in Washington, to talk about workplace relations issues.

A regional framework for island state cybersecurity under development will help Pacific countries build effective emergency response teams, strengthen cyber resilience, and ensure data sovereignty.

Penny Wong acknowledged previous Australian governments had ignored the clear and consistent message from its Pacific family of the climate change threat.

Dr Satyendra Prasad expressed concern about the more than 13,000 nuclear weapons around the world, many remaining in a state of ‘high operational alert’.

It has been a bruising couple of weeks for the Pacific Islands Forum after five Micronesian countries announced they were leaving the region’s key intergovernmental body. But rumours of its demise have been somewhat exaggerated. We may also look back at February 2021 as a turning point in Pacific regionalism , or the processes that […]