Pacific Step-up
Pacific Step-up
Stepping up Australia's engagement with our Pacific family
Pacific Women Leaders’ Meeting
Pacific Women Leaders met virtually on 29 May 2020 to discuss the gender implications of COVID-19 within the Pacific region.
"We have always engaged – and always will engage – in the Pacific because we are part of the Pacific, and with the best interests of our region at heart."
Ewen McDonald, Head of the Office of the Pacific
Australia stepping-up to address COVID-19 in the Pacific
Prime Minister Scott Morrison told G20 leaders on 26 March, “our Pacific island family must be a focus of international support. There has never been a more important time for Australia’s Pacific Step-up as we all face these massive challenges.”
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Stepping up in the Pacific
Australia is taking our partnerships with the Pacific to a new level. We want to work with our Pacific partners to build a Pacific region that is secure strategically, stable economically and sovereign politically.
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Pacific partnerships
Australia has a strong history of genuine partnership with the region, forged over decades of sustained engagement, our shared history, common values and cultural affinity for family, religion, sports and more.
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Office of the Pacific
The newly established Office of the Pacific, headed by Ewen McDonald, will play a critical role in supporting Ministers, coordinating whole-of-government efforts, and boosting Australia's engagement with the Pacific.
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Economic prosperity
Together as a region we share a common vision for prosperity, including through open and transparent trade, commercial opportunities, resilient infrastructure and labour mobility.
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Shared security
A strong, stable region keeps us more secure and enables our economies to grow and our peoples to prosper. Australia's longstanding and ongoing security cooperation with Pacific countries covers defence, law enforcement, transnational crime, climate and disaster resilience border management and human security.
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People connections
Australia's Pacific Step-up places people at the heart of our Pacific partnerships, with new measures to strengthen and celebrate our people connections. This includes expanded sports, education, media and church partnerships.
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Pacific women and girls
Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Development) commits $320 million over ten years to improve the political, economic and social opportunities of Pacific women.
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Strengthening climate and disaster resilience in the Pacific
Australia is a steadfast partner in building climate and disaster resilience in the Pacific. Our support includes dedicated aid initiatives that strengthen resilience, as well as a comprehensive effort to integrate climate change and disaster resilience into the Pacific aid program.
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Australia Pacific Sustainable Oceans and Livelihoods Partnership
Australia is part of the Pacific Ocean family of nations, and a longstanding supporter of sustainable Pacific fisheries. The Blue Pacific connects us, feeds communities, drives economies and is central to the culture of our Pacific family.
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Countries
- American Samoa
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Kiribati
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn Island
- Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna