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Samoa and Australia

Tasi le aiga, e tutu malosi fa'atasi (One family standing strong together)

• Over 75,000 Australian residents have Samoan ancestry
• Over 33,000 Australians visited Samoa in 2017
• 176 Australian volunteers since 2011 (32 in 2018-19)
• 522 Australia Awards Scholarships since 2007 (58 in 2017-18, 70% women)
• Financial literacy training for 406 people (78% women) in 2017-18
• New Parliament House
• $35.5 million in Official Development Assistance (Tala $67 million in 2018-19)
• Almost 1,400 Samoans with disabilities provided with mobility devices
• Over 350 Australian businesses export goods to Samoa
• $175 million worth of two-way trade in 2017 (Tala $330 million)
• Over 1570 Samoans have graduated from the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (86 in 2017)
• $2 billion Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific
• 31,500 banana plants supplied to help recover from the destruction caused by TC Gita
• New patrol boat
• Seasonal Worker Programme: Over 500 Samoans in 2017-18
• 440 women participated in the Pacific Sports Partnership funded Healthy Nanas Programme in 2018