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Australia cops flak from Pacific for climate neglect (Interview with Bertarim Rimon)

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:23pm AEST

The Australian government has rejected criticism that it's doing too little on climate change in the Pacific, pointing to its international and regional efforts since coming to office almost two years ago.

Presenter: Linda Mottram

Speaker: Bertarim Rimon, Kiribati government's climate change adaptation… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 31, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

The Frontline of Climate change: Pacific Island peoples (including Banabans)

ANDREW BARTLETT Crikey Blog - July 29, 2009 – 11:59 am, by Andrew Bartlett **

On Tuesday night, July 28, around 300 people filled the Brisbane Room in Brisbane’s City Hall to hear speakers from the front line of climate change – residents of the Torres Strait and Pacific Island nations Tuvalu, Micronesia and Kiribati. It’s very rare for me to attend a… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 31, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Another great interview with Pelenise on Global Warming and Displacement of Banabans twice in history

International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Kiribati will be devastated by rising sea levels.

Pacific islanders struggle for survival against global warming -- `Rich countries must slash emissions now'

July 29, 2009 -- For Pacific islanders, climate change is not a threat looming somewhere in the future. Rising sea levels and unpredictable weather are having… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 29, 2009 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Banaban - Pelenise Alofa Guest Speaker at upcoming Pacific Islands Forum Australia on Climate Change (Radio Interview)

Call for Pacific Islands Forum to act on climate change ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:29am AEST

**Great to have Pele here in Australia at the moment and we spent yesterday (Sunday) with her and Royden, Moi, Fatiaki and Tera - we will be there to hear her speak in Brisbane on Tuesday night at the Brisbane City Hall. This is one of the many radio interviews and… Continue

Added by Stacey King on July 27, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Pacific Islands Bullied by Australian, NZ Trade Officials, Say Experts

By Diane Cordemans - Epoch Times May 30, 2009

AUCKLAND, N.Z.—Tactics employed by Australia and New Zealand to push Pacific Island countries into signing a free trade agreement are a form of “contemporary colonization,” said academic and respected analyst on Pacific Island affairs, Professor Jane Kelsey at a seminar in Auckland last week.

Pacific Island officials involved in the Pacific Agreement on Closer… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 11:27am — 1 Comment

Pacific and Foreign aid survives Budget axe

ABC News - Budget 09 By Linda Mottram posted 13 May 2009

Despite producing a 2009-10 Budget marked by disappearing revenues and a slide into the red, some Government pledges have survived - among them, the aid budget. There is little new in the list of aid programs. But aid spending in the new financial year will rise from $3.7 billion to $3.8 billion, keeping faith with the commitment to grow the… Continue

Added by Stacey King on May 13, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Tongan almond pickers send home Aussie dollars

MATANGI TONGA ONLINE - 27 Apr 2009, 22:52

Tongan almond pickers under the Pacific Seasonal Pilot Workers scheme to Australia

TONGAN seasonal workers who are picking almonds in Robinvale, Victoria are earning good money and sending remittances back to their families in Tonga, reports Vava'u People's Representative 'Etuate… Continue

Added by Stacey King on April 28, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

Fiji Employers welcome Australian skilled migrant cuts

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Updated Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:15pm AEST

Fiji's Employers Federation says the cuts announced to Australia's skilled migration intake earlier this month, are good news for Fiji as it will slow the country's "brain drain". With the international financial crisis biting, Australia's skilled migration intake for the year to the end of June has been cut by 14%, with building and manufacturing… Continue

Added by Stacey King on March 31, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Pacific worker scheme 'teething problems'

ABC Radio Australia

26 Feb 2009

Tonga's High Commissioner to Australia says he wants closer communication between groups responsible for Pacific Island guest workers.

Fifty Tongans have been temporarily employed as fruit pickers in Australia, the first of more than 2,000 Pacific island farm labourers from Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 26, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Australia appoints new Kiribati High Commissioner

ABC NEWS Wed Feb 4, 2009

Australia has appointed career diplomat Brett Aldam as its next High Commissioner to Kiribati.

Mr Aldam will take up the post in April succeeding Anne Quinane who has been there since 2006.

Australia has maintained a diplomatic mission in Kiribati since 1981.

Mr Aldam is the Director of the United States Trade Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 24, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Global financial crisis could affect seasonal workers

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

18 February 2009

When the guest worker scheme was finally approved last year, the Australian economy was travelling along quite well with little unemployment. Now with the global financial crisis beginning to bite, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says that it will have an effect on the guest workers scheme. Ms Gillard says the demand for workers from Vanuatu,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 18, 2009 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Tongan guest workers settle in to south-eastern Australia

AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS

18 Feb 2009

Training of the first group of Pacific Island guest workers in Australia continues as their employers finalise the paperwork required for the scheme to start.

Fifty Tongans who are the first of possibly 2,500 workers from Kiribati, Tonga, PNG and Vanautu are in Robinvale in country Victoria preparing to help in harvesting almonds.

Joe… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 18, 2009 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Bainimarama continues NZ attack

Stuff.co.nz

Thursday, 29 January 2009

Fiji’s military leader Frank Bainimarama has continued his attack on John Key, accusing New Zealand of using chequebook diplomacy and bullying the Pacific Island Forum’s smaller members.

Bainimarama has also said that the Pacific Forum has over stepped its boundaries by issuing an ultimatum to hold elections by May 1, and reiterated Fiji would hold elections in its own… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 29, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments