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World Bank Australia & NZ Help Pacific Islanders Christmas 2009

The Christmas holiday period is typically a time for Pacific Islanders living in Australia and New Zealand to send money back home to their families. Earlier this year, the Australian and New Zealand governments, support…
ANZAC NEEDS TO INTERVENE NOW IN FIJI

The only reason the International Community and in particular the Australian and New-Zealand Governments have spent millions of dollars and thousands of billable hours to develop the Banana Republic of the Fiji Islands i…
ANZUS TREATY TO SECURITIZE SOUTH PACIFIC

THE trilateral Anzus Treaty binding Australia, New Zealand and the United States in a military alliance is all but dead - and has been since the mid-1980s. But a new initiative seems set to recast relations. Anz…
Australia & NZ Joint Rapid Reaction Task Force to securitize Asia Pacific

In the End ANZ have our interests at heart and will be there to pick up the pieces for us if Frank the Tin Pot is not too arrogant. 'WE USED to talk about the 'Pacific Way', which was seen as a means of doing things t…
Anxiety at the Commonwealth Secretariat

A DAMNING British report has warned that the Commonwealth is out of touch and must undergo radical change to regain relevance and clout on the global stage. The document, a copy of which has been read by The Age,…
Commonwealth must compel change in IMF WORLD BANK Policies

As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is about to take place in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, there is not much hope among its member states that it will achieve anything more than declarations…
Australia's duty to help Pacific through financial crisis says UNICEF

The United Nations children's welfare body UNICEF says Australia has a special duty to help Pacific nations weather the after-effects of the global financial crisis. Spokesman Martin Thomas says UNICEF's report on the st…
International Agreements 101

International agreements exhibit a wide range of variation. Many are negotiated as legally binding agreements, while others are expressly nonbinding. Some contain substantive obligations requiring deep, demanding poli…
Commonwealth to Discuss Fiji at CHOGM 2009

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad & Tobago - biennial discussion of global & Commonwealth issues aimed at agreeing collective policies & initiatives.The Queen is to address the opening cere…
The Next Meltdown is Coming in 2012

The next meltdown is coming in 2012 Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch